Lives and works in Philadelphia, Pa
Education
2011 MFA, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2007 BFA in Painting & Art History, Cum Laude, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA
2006 Temple University, Rome, IT
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Painters Table, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Short & Sweet II : Mini Solo Exhibit, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Within Reach, One River School, Hartsdale, NY
2018 Solo Exhibit, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Common Place: Lauren Whearty & Rebekah Callaghan, Pagus Gallery, Norristown Arts Building, Norristown, PA
2010 Lauren Whearty & Nicole Debrabandere, ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists, Columbus, OH
2007 Lauren Whearty & Katie Grauer: Recent Paintings, Tyler Hall. Tyler School of Art. Temple University. Elkins Park, PA
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 (RE)FOCUS 2024, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Playlist, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia PA
Now, One with Everyone!, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Converge Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Living Arrangements, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
A Painting is a Painting is a Painting, Artport, Kingston, NY
Do or Don’t Do It Yourself: A Paint by Number Show Curated by Kirstin Lamb, Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
Flatfile Program, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
2022 Drawn Together, Fine Arts Galleries, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
CFEVA at the Chambers, Curated by Genevieve Coutrobis, Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia, PA
Pleasure Tense, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Art Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm Sweden
Painters Guild Curated by Tessa Krieg, Brandon Elijah Johnson, and Jesse Morsberger, 11 Newell Gallery, New York, NY
Made in Paint, Golden Paint Gallery, New Berlin, NY
Touch, Curated by Anda Dubinskis, Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Nice To See You Again, Curated by Keisha Prioleau-Martin & Leonora Loeb, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art of the State 54th Annual Juried Exhibition, Jurors Award in Painting, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
SummerHaus, Hotbed Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
A Collective Escape, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Growth Cycle, Organized by Lauren Whearty, Palumbo Park, Philadelphia, PA
Cabin Fever, Painting Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Bite The Hand, Monaco, St. Louis, MI
Farthest From the Ordinary, Curated by Rick Hidalgo, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2019 Annual Juried Exhibition: Curated by Jodi Throckmorton, 215|610 Contemporary, Media, PA
2018 Oh You Gorgeous Thing Curated by Charles Browning, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
I Kind of Live Where I Find Myself, Curated by Lucas Kelly, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, NJ
OyG 5 Year Anniversary : Multiples, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2017 CFEVA Spring Exhibition, Center For Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Cross-Pollination: An Exhibit of Tyler Alumni Art Educators and Their Students. Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
A Condition of Place, Woodmere Annual Exhibition, Woodmere Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
PennCare Exhibition through The Center For Emerging Visual Artists, Cherry Hill, NJ
2015 First Annual Benefit, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Momenta Art Spring Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Thinking and Touching Time, Curated by Zahar Vaks, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Pop up Exhibition of collaborative drawings, Curated by Emi Inoue, Container Gallery, Saga, Japan
In the Company of Color: Lauren Whearty, Sandy Litchfield, and Sara Petras, Curated by Nicole Langille-Jelsing, Satellite Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
2014 Annual Benefit Exhibition, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
21st Anniversary Exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2013 VOX IX, Annual exhibition, Juried by Hilary Harkness and Hunter Braithwaite, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Benefit, Annual summer exhibition, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 We Don’t Have All Night - Curated, exhibited, created catalogue, Urban Arts Space, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Grants & Awards
2023 University of the Arts President’s Fund for Excellence: Creative Research & Innovation Grant
University of the Arts President’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Part Time Faculty
2022 Joseph Roberts Foundation Grant
2021 Creative Accelerator Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2020 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2009-11 Graduate Teaching Associate Award, The Ohio State University
2009 Arts and Humanities Research Grant, The Ohio State University
Residencies & Fellowships
2025 (upcoming) Ballinglen Fellowship, Ireland
2022 Soaring Gardens Residency - Ora Lerman Trust
2021 Golden Foundation Artist in Residence
2013 Vermont Studio Center residency and fellowship
2007 Yale Summer School of Art, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University
Curatorial Projects
2024 Danni O’Brien : Wa(r)ning Light, Curated by Lauren Whearty & Zahar Vaks, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Michael Ambron : No Time, Curated by Lauren Whearty & Zahar Vaks, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Walking and Falling at the Same Time: Chantal Wnuk Solo Show, Curated by Lauren Whearty & Zahar Vaks, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
The Dress / What Touches the Floor, Gyan Shrosbree solo show co-curated by Lauren Whearty, Leeza Meksin, Clare Britt, Adam Liam Rose, Zahar Oaks, & Nickola Pottinger, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Surface Tension, Dexter Ciprian, Rachel Granofsky, Kirstin Lamb, Caitlin Macbride, Christina Graham, Sarah Pater, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2021 How To: ING Dana Davenport & Poppy Delta Dawn, Curated by Lauren Whearty, Clare Britt, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Black Mayonnaise and Bio-Mutants Ezra Jude, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Growth Cycle, Organized by Lauren Whearty, Palumbo Park, Philadelphia, Pa
2020 Boston University, Painting MFA Exhibition: Curated by Lauren Whearty, Jaya Howey, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Heat Salt Acid Waves: Leeza Meksin, Nickola Pottinger, Padma Rajendran, Painting Exhibition, University of the Arts Painting Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Ghost Stories, Mark Shetabi & Norm Paris, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Boundless, Winnie Sidharta Ambron, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2018 OyG 5th Anniversary exhibition, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Code Switch, Curated by Lauren Whearty & Clare Britt, Group Exhibition in the inaugural Gowanus Biennial, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Frame Work, Group Exhibition, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2012 We Don’t Have All Night, Urban Arts Space, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Exhibitions Juried
2023 Open Call for two Solo Exhibits, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY
2022 Open Call for two Solo Exhibits, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY
Phillips Mill Art Exhibition, Phillips Mill Art Center, New Hope, PA
2021 Open Call for two Solo Exhibits, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY
Flat File Open Call, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY
2020 Open Call for two Solo Exhibits, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY
Flat File Open Call, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY
2019 Open Call for two Solo Exhibits, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY
Flat File Open Call, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY
Annual Open Call, Mercer County Community College Gallery, West Windsor, NJ
2018 Open Call for two Solo Exhibits, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY
Publications, Reviews, Interviews
Edmonds, Brian. “Erasure #2”, Interview with Rick Briggs, Ky Anderson. Printed Publication, Blurb 2020
Johnson, Elizabeth. “Art Sync: Soft Power”. Art Sync. https://viewingroom.grossmccleaf.com/viewing-room/art-sync-soft-power2 2023.
“Studio Visit Magazine”. Summer edition, 2017
Whearty, Lauren, Shaver, Buy, Vance, Tom. “This Time”. Lulu. 2022
Whearty, Lauren. “An interview with Marilyn Holsing on the power of narrative”. Artblog. https://www.theartblog.org/2023/10/an-interview-with-marilyn-holsing-on-the-power-of-narrative-and-landscape/ October 23, 2023.
Whearty, Lauren. “Talking with Fjord on their 10 Year Anniversary”. Artblog. https://www.theartblog.org/2023/09/talking-with-fjord-on-their-ten-year-anniversary/ September 19, 2023.
Whearty, Lauren. “Molly Burt-Westvig on ‘the reveal’ in her multi-media paintings", Artblog. https://www.theartblog.org/2023/03/molly-burt-westvig-on-the-reveal-in-her-multi-media-paintings/ March 24, 2023.
Whearty, Lauren. “Eleanor Conovor: elusive abstractions with bold materiality, in ‘Side Angle Tide’ at List Gallery, Swarthmore”. https://www.theartblog.org/2022/12/eleanor-conover-elusive-abstractions-with-bold-materiality-in-side-angle-tide-at-list-gallery-swarthmore/ December 12, 2022.
Whearty, Lauren. “Ghost Stories, Mark Shetabi & Norm Paris". Ortega y Gasset Projects. 2019
Whearty, Lauren."Room with a View: Online Painting Exhibition”. Curating Contemporary. curatingcontemporary.com . April 2017.
Whearty, Lauren. “We Don’t Have All Night”. Exhibition Catalog. Urban Art Space. 2012.
Whearty, Lauren. “Two New Museum Exhibits and their effect on a young artist”. Artblog. https://www.theartblog.org/2009/06/two-new-museum-exhibits-and-their-effect-on-a-young-artist/ June 15, 2009.
Yaniv, Etty. “Lauren Whearty: Slippage between Abstraction and Image”. Artspiel. https://artspiel.org/lauren-whearty-slippage-between-abstraction-and-image/ August 2021.
Podcasts, Video, Recorded Talks/Lectures
“Artists Conversations: A Sense of Place: Featuring Painters Lauren Whearty and Kelly Kautz”. State Museum of Pennsylvania. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShkzO7T431w&t=164s 2022.
“Episode One: The Commission”. Philadelphia Museum of Art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUyRE2B82tQ&t=28s 2022.
“Episode Four: Lauren Whearty”. Philadelphia Museum of Art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYaF_7mskA 2022.
“Episode Eight: Matisse Today”. Philadelphia Museum of Art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjsNoKS6nsl 2022.
Hobbs, Morgan and Whearty, Lauren. “Artist Talk with Lauren Whearty”. Gross McCleaf Gallery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_QUmWWJAO8 July 2023.
“Lauren Whearty Gallery Talk”. The Delaware Contemporary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWpCa3Ewbqo&t=287s 2020.
Rossi, Steve. “Professional Practices”. CAA Conversations. https://www.collegeart.org/programs/podcasts 2023.
Whearty, Lauren. “Lauren Whearty // Eric Hibit // Teaching Color Theory”. CAA Conversations. https://www.collegeart.org/programs/podcasts 2023.
Whearty, Lauren, Vaks Zahar, Wnuk Chantal. “Chantal Wnuk’s Talk”. Ortega y Gasset Projects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpvke-VUNdw&t=23s June 2023.
“Virtual Open Studios: Session 2 highlighting the 2021 Artists in Residence”. Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMZg_d-qN_M August 2021.
Visiting Artist & Public Lectures
2022 Visiting Artist Program, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pafa Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Gentrification and Art Spaces, Art Supermarket, Stockholm SE
Funding for Artist-Run Non Profits, Art Supermarket, Stockholm SE
2020 Farthest From the Ordinary, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
Professional Practices Lecture, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Artist Lecture & studio visits - Painting Senior Studios, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Lecture, Widener University, Chester, PA
2018 Distinguished Lecture Series, Mercer County Community College & Gallery, West Windsor, NJ