Laura Newman is a Brooklyn-based abstract painter who makes improvisational abstract paintings and works on paper. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Rome Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters and New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowships, and residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The American Academy in Rome. She has had solo exhibitions at James Fuentes, New York, online, Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, New York, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, and was included in recent group exhibitions at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, online, Waterhouse and Dodd, New York, and The University of Indiana, Columbus, among many others. Her work has been discussed in The Brooklyn Rail, ArtCritical.com, The Drawer-Revue de Dessin, Artforum, The New York Times, and Bomb Magazine. Born in Cleveland, Ohio and educated at Cooper Union, The California Institute of the Arts and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is a Professor of Art at Vassar College.