RESUME

LAUREL FARRIN

Born 1955, Cleveland, Ohio

Professor, Program head, painting/drawing program SAAH, University of Iowa
School of Art and Art History, Art Building West, Iowa City, IA 52242
319-321-8710 laurel-farrin@uiowa.edu
M.F.A. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, painting, 1993

Solo Exhibition
2020 Vaudeville, Devening Projects, Chicago, IL
2018 No Particular Order, Figge Museum, Davenport, IA
2015 Back Alley, Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA
2014 RYG, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, IA
2012 Laurel Farrin, Iowa Hall Gallery, KCC, Cedar Rapids, IA
2009 As Is, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI
2008 Laurel Farrin, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2007 X Ray, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, X-Ray, Chatham, NY
Miss Mash, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, IA
2006 Admit One, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, catalog
2003 Presence In Absence, Sioux City Art Museum, Sioux City, IA,
2002 Anton Gallery, Washington DC
1998 Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
Linked/Longing, School 33, sculpture installation, Baltimore, MD
1997 Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
Laurel Farrin, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM

Curatorial project
2011 Headcase, Leslie Heller Gallery, NY,NY
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Leg Up, Laurel Farrin,Wayne Koestenbaum, Wegge Gallery, Fairfiled IA
2020 Mirage, curated by Tommy Taylor, Sabine Street Studios, Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX
By Women, For Women, Benefit , UI Stanley Museum, Hudson River Gallery, IC, IA
2019 Languages of the Heart, John Molloy Gallery, curated by Lindsay Walt and Colin Thomson, NY, NY
Moving Pictures, an evening of videos by painters, Platform, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Hecho en Tránsito /Made in Transit: A U.S. - Cuban Art Exchange, Macy Gallery, Columbia U; Selena Gallery, LIU, NY
Auction 18 (invitational) Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Laurel Farrin/DouglasDegges, Yellow Door Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2017 Laid. Placed and Arranged, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD
2016 Exchange Rates, Made art, Bushwick expo, NYC
Auction, (invitational ) Bemis Contemporary Art Center, Omaha NE
2015 Art and Environment, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2014 Laurel Farrin, FATBOY Review, online Lit. Journal. Issue #12, Manchester, UK
Subject Matters, Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University, NY, NY
Higher Learning, CUNY Lehman College office #009, curated by Danielle Tegeder, NY, NY
(Travelled to Hamilton College, Hamilton NY Sept. 2014)
FIZZ, Laurel Farrin,/Jim Shrosbree, Catich Gallery, St Ambrose Davenport, IA
2013 Joseph Campbell: The Artist's Way, curated by Gail F. Enns, catalog; Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
2012 Tell Me A Story, Current, at Edelman Co. NY, NY
Six Pack:Working Abs, Illeges Gallery, CSU, Columbia, GA
App*Rope*Ri*8, Anderson Gallery, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
2011 Transcendental Vision, Sand City Art Center, Sand City, CA
2010 Iowa Artists, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, catalog
2009 Analogism, installation, Anton Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA
2007 Groupings, Carrol Square Gallery, Washington DC
Sly, Bronx River Arts Center, NYC, NY
No Representation, Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC
40th RAIR Anniversary Exhibition, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
WPA/Corcoran Benefit Auction 07, Invitational, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash, DC
2006 Heart of DC, Wilson Building Project, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Wash. DC
Benefit 06, Invitational; Lower East Side Printshop, NY, NY
Small Works, NYU, 80 East Washington Square Gallery, Jack Shainman, Juror, NYC, NY
Der Blau Maur, Anton Gallery@The Hawthorne Mansion, Monterey, CA
WPA Corcoran Auction, invitational, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2004 Albany International Airport Gallery, Millay Colony, 30 Years in the Studio,
2003 Steven Vail Gallery, Holiday, Des Moines, IA
New American Painting, Mid Atlantic Edition, juried by Schaffner, Ingrid, Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Exhibition in Print
2002 57 N St., Surfacing, curated by J.W. Mahoney, Washington, DC
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Summer Triennial, Cedar Rapids, IA
Kentler International Drawing Center, Small Works on Paper, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Anton Gallery, Love, Washington DC
Barbara Crawford Art Gallery, 9/11/01, Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, PA
2000 Roper Gallery, Traces, Frostburg State, Frostburg, MD
Anton Gallery, Group Show, Washington, DC
1999 Boyden Gallery, Reclamation, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, MD
Des Moines Art Center Iowa Artists 1999, juror, Janet Kardon, Des Moines, IA,
Baumgartner Galleries, Jolt, Washington, DC
District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Awards Exhibition, Wash DC
1998 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Art Sites’98, Curated by Terry Sultan, Wash DC
 

Residencies

2023, Siena Art Institute Casa Residency, Siena, Italy
2022, 2021, 2019 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2018 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterbourough, NH
Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
Pratt Institute Fine Arts Summer Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Dora Mar Fellow, Menerbes, France
2016Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2003 Millay Colony, Residency Fellowship, Austerlitz, NY
2000 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA
1996-97 Roswell Museum and Art Center, 1 year Artist-in-Residence Roswell, NM
1995 Resident Critics Program, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, juror, David Salle

Published Reviews
Art Viewer, Laurel Farrin at Devening Projects, March 22, 2020 https://artviewer.org/laurel-farrin-at-devening-projects/
Tumblin, Cody, Comedy of Errors, Two Coats Of Paint, February 19, 2020,
https://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2020/02/laurel-farrins-comedy-of-errors.html
Rutherford, Mike, Laurel Farrin at Maharishi University, Painter’s Bread, (online blog) Oct 12, 2014
Elkin, Tobi, Gallery Hop, Headcase, LD, The Low Down, news from the Lower East Side, online, Oct 29, 2011
Carlin,Tova, Medium Cool, Time Out NY, June 19-25, 2008 issue 664
Haber, John, Laurel Farrin, Artillery, LASept/Oct. 2008, vol 3, issue 1
Dawson, Jessica, The Right Ingredients for a Sweet Experience The Washington Post,1/04/08, pg.CO2
Huntington, Richard “Just an Illusion”, Buffalo News, 5/19/06
Chapman, Cindy Cullen, “State of the Art”, Cedar Rapids Gazette, July 21, 2002
Colazzi, Vincenzo, Printmaking Jam, The Washington Review, Feb/March, 2001
Mahoney, J.W., “Speakeasy,” New Art Examiner, Mar. 1999, pg. 16-17
Protzman, Ferdinand, “Jolt at Baumgartner,” The Washington Post, Jan. 7, 1999
Wall, Donna Dorian, “The Glory of Gold,” Southeast Folio, Southern Accents, 1999
“New Art Exhibit at SMC”The Enterprise, Lexington Park, MD
Howell, George, “Reviews,” Art Papers, Jan. 1998
Protzman, Ferdinand, “Paint Necessarily So,” The Washington Post, Sept.11, 1997
Riley, Michael, “Laurel Farrin,” Roswell Museum and Art Center, Quarterly Bulletin Vol. 45, No. 2 and 3, 1997
Schulkind, Rima, “Critics Roundtable,” KOAN, vol. VI, No. 1, Sept. 1997
Summers, Suzanne, “Reviews,” Articulate; Jan.- Feb. 1996
Banks, Anne, “Art Reviews,” Washington Review, Dec.-Jan. 1995
Johnson, Linda, “Reviews,” Articulate, Vol. 1, issue 3, Oct. 1995
Dorsey, John, “Migrations,” Baltimore Sun, Sept. 1, 1994
Giuliano, Mike, “Temperatures Rising,” Baltimore City Paper, Vol.18 no.34, Aug. 24-31, 1994
Meisner, Cecilia, “Saints&Swimmers,” Baltimore Alternative, Nov. 1994
Mahoney, J.W., “Studio View,” The New Art Examiner, Oct. 1993, pg. 42-43

Invited Lectures, Panels
August, 2018 Figge Museum, Davenport, IA
May 2015 Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Salon Series, Lecture, Roswell, NM
May, 2014 Hofstra University, Garden City, NY
Jan. 2014 St. Ambrose College, Davenport, IA, lecture
Nov,2012 Ohio University, Visiting Juror, Lecture
Oct. 2012 Artist Panel, Columbus State U. Columbus, GA
April, 2010 Visiting Artist, American University, Wash DC
Nov.09/08 Jacob Javits Fellowship Program, US Dept. of E., Jury Panel
Sept. 07/06 National Science Foundation, Washington DC, Panelist, Antarctica Artist and Writers Program,
April 2007 University of Vermont, visiting artist,
April 2006 Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, lecture
October 2005 Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
October 2004 Rice University, Houston TX, visiting artist and critic

Grants
1997-98 Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Individual
Artist Grant
1994 Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Technical Assistance Program Grant
 

Selected Public Collections:
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
Des Moines Art Center
Museum of Art, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Figge Museum, Davenport, IA
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Wilson Bldg
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
The Tang Museum, Skidmore University, Saratoga Springs, NY
TIAA, St. Louis, MO