Laura Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She studied at Cooper Union, CalArts, and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has held solo exhibitions at James Fuentes, New York, online, Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, New York, The University of Connecticut, Storrs and others. Recent group exhibitions include The American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, New York, The Pursuit of Aesthetics, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, online, and 10 X Relay, Indiana University, Columbus, Indiana. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Rome Prize and New York Foundation on the Arts fellowships, and residencies at MacDowell, VCCA, Yaddo and The American Academy in Rome. Her work has been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, ArtCritical.com, The Drawer--Revue de Dessin, Artforum, The New York Times, and Bomb Magazine. She is a Professor of Art at Vassar College.
LAURA NEWMAN
Born Cleveland, Ohio
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York website: lauranewman.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Laura Newman, Works on Paper, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, online
2018 Laura Newman: New Paintings, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York
2017 STRUCTURES: Paintings by Laura Newman, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
2012 Laura Newman, Recent Paintings, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York
2011 Air, 1 GAP Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Isolde Brielmaier
2010 Glass Walls and Billboards, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax
2007 Laura Newman, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York
2004 Skies and Highways, Randolph Macon College, Ashland, Virginia
2002 Bellwether Gallery, New York
1996 Tenri Gallery, New York
1987-9 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, New York
2021 Artists Draw their Studios, Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, New York
New Chrysanthemums, Store for Rent Gallery, Brooklyn
2020 The Pursuit of Aesthetics, Morgan Lehman, New York, online
10 X Relay, Indiana University, Columbus, Indiana
Women Artists and Contemporary Abstraction, Waterhouse and Dodd, New York
2019 10 X Relay, UT Downtown Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Incise, Echo & Repeat, Abrazo Gallery, New York
Casimir Effect, ChaShaMa Space for Artists, New York
2018 Paintings and Works on Paper, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York
Forth to Back, Marcy Rosenblat and Laura Newman, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn
2016 Machines of Paint and Other Materials, 72 Front Street, Brooklyn
Conference of the Birds, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York
Surface Two, curated by Renee Ricardo, Arena, Brooklyn
2014 My Big Fat Painting, Brian Morris Gallery, New York
Clouds, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York
2013 Rockslide Sky, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York
2012 What’s the Point, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York
Charles Hagen and Laura Newman, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn
2011 Little Languages/Coded Pictures, Lesley Heller Fine Art, New York
2010 Rhyme not Reason, curated by John Yau, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
2009 Mary Carlson and Laura Newman, Big,Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City
2008 The 183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition, The National Academy of Design, New York
2006 Air, Monya Rowe Gallery, curated by Amy Sillman, New York
2002 Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards Winners, New York
1984 New Work, The New Museum, New York
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2020 “The Pursuit of Aesthetics, William Corwin, The Brooklyn Rail,
Exhibition Review, Morgan Lehman Gallery, July-August p 84-85
“10 X Relay, Cat’s Cradle” Lisa Taliano and Jackie Meier, catalog essay, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program, Columbus, Indiana
2018
“Being in the World: Laura Newman at Victoria Munroe” Jennifer Riley http://www.artcritical.com/2018/05/03/jennifer-riley-on-laura-newman/
“Forth to Back: New Paintings by Marcy Rosenblat & Laura Newman”
Paul D'Agostino, 490 Atlantic Gallery, catalog essay
https://aftervasari.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/forth-to-back-new-paintings-by-marcy-rosenblat-laura-newman/
2017
The Drawer, Revue de Dessin, Volume 12, “Untitled” March
“Laura Newman on a Diagonal Line in Matisse’s View of Notre Dame Painters on Painting, https://paintersonpaintings.com/laura-newman-on-a diagonal-line-in-matisses-view-of-notre-dame/
2015 "
Art Talks”, Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center https://youtu.be/jimqiiEBZ
2012
Rockslide Sky, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, NYC, catalog
Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint, October 2 http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2012/10/images-laura-newman.html
2011
Interview by Emily Auchincloss, NYArts Magazine, October
2010
Amy Sillman, “Never trust a Laura Newman Vertical” http://artcritical.com/2010/09/04/sillman-newman/
“Laura Newman, Glass Walls and Billboards”, catalog
Essays by Amy SIllman and John Yau, NSCAD University, Halifax
2008
The National Academy Museum, The 183rd Annual Exhibition (catalog)
2007
Stephanie Buhman, exhibition review, Leslie Heller, The Brooklyn Rail, October
2004
“Laura Newman, Skies and Highways” (catalog) Randolph-Macon College
2002
Martha Schwendener, Artforum Magazine, Summer
https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/200206/laura-newman-47701
Judith Linhares, "Laura Newman," Bomb Magazine, April
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/laura-newman/
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 MacDowell
2018-2020 VCCA, Virginia Center for the Arts, Residency
2017, 2015 The American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist
2015 Yaddo, Residency
2002-2019 Vassar College, Faculty Research Committee Awards
2010 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Residency
1996 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, Painting
1992 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rosenthal Award
1985 MacDowell
1981 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting
1980 Rome Prize Fellowship in Painting, The American Academy in Rome
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
Chase Manhattan Bank
IBM Corporation
Neuberger and Berman
The New Museum Impermanent Collection
Prudential Insurance Company
The University of Arizona
TEACHING
1998-present Professor and Chair, Art Department
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
1998-1999 Visiting Assistant Professor
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1993-1997 Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Art
New Haven, Connecticut
1990-1993 The Cooper Union School of Art, New York
1989-1990 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
EDUCATION
1981 The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Graduate Program
1978 The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, BFA
1977 The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California