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BIO [download bio] Laura London, MFA, California Institute of the Arts, BFA, University of Arizona. Laura’s work has been extensively exhibited including recent solo shows at Caren Golden Fine Art in New York City, works on paper, inc. gallery in Los Angeles where two catalogues were published and Peter Blake Gallery in Laguna Beach, California. Recent group exhibitions include “My Miami,” A Personal Perspective, at Daniel Azoulay Gallery in Miami, FL “A House Is Not A Home,” curated by Beth Rudin Dewoody, Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC, “Photo Femmes,” at Caren Golden Fine Art Gallery, NYC, “Head Games,” at Revolution Gallery in Detroit, “Snap Shot Now,” at the Jamie Angell Gallery in Toronto, Canada, “Masquerade: Examining Issues of Identity in Contemporary Art,” at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Wisconsin, “Bootleg Identity,” at Caren Golden Fine Art, “A Plurality of Truths,” Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College, NY, and “Pros & Protégés: Los Angeles Artists and the Youth They Mentor” at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California. Commissioned work and editions produced for public space and artist organizations include Side Street Projects, Muse X Editions and Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies in Los Angeles. Ms. London is the recipient of a 2003 MTA Grant, San Fernando Valley Metro Rapid Transitway Station, East Valley Segment, for which she created a permanent public art installation consisting of two large-scale Photo Enamel Panels and two Terrazzo Ellipses. She was awarded a second grant in 2006 from the MTA for the Photo Light Box Project for which she created seven large-scale images which will be installed in several rotating locations throughout the metropolitan Los Angeles area over the next three years. Her work is included in many collections both private and corporate. Laura London currently teaches photography at Otis College of Art and Design. She has also taught at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Barnsdall Junior Art Center in Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Photography Summer Workshops in San Diego and many other visiting artist and guest lecture appointments.
RESUME [download resume] Lives and works in Los Angeles, CASolo Exhibitions 2004 “Almost True Tales” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY 2002 “Laura London,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2001 “Laura London,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2001 “After School Special,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY 2000 “After School Special,” works on paper, inc., Los Angeles, CA (catalog) 1999 “Laura London,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY 1998 “Laura London,” works on paper, inc., Los Angeles, CA (catalog) 1997 Special K Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1996 Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA 1995 “Illusions of Identity,” Bennett Roberts Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions 2007 "A House Is Not A Home," curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody,
Caren Golden
Fine Art, New York, NY 2006 "Photo Femmes," Caren Golden Fine Art, NY 2005 “Metro Orange Line Art,” Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, 2004 “Head Games,” Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan 2003 “Snapshot Now,” curated by Randy Gladman, Angell Gallery, Toronto, 2002 “Masquerade: Examining Issues of Identity in Contemporary Art,” Kohler 2000 “Phantom Barn Raising,” Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA 1999 “Pros & Proteges: Los Angeles Artists and the Youth They Mentor,” 1998 “Blade Runner,” curated by Stephanie Theodore, Caren Golden Fine Art, NY 1997 Lemon Sky, Los Angeles, CA 1996 “True Bliss,” LACE, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) 1995 Kantor Gallery, curated by Melissa Chappel, Los Angeles, CA 1994 “Art Festival of Brenda,” Brenda Fotographica, Netherlands 1993 “Heaven Missing: Young Art LA,” Jose Friere Fine Art, New York, NY 1992 “Redefined,” Los Angeles Alternative Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA 1990 “Faces,” Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1988 LACPS Annual Exhibition, curated by William Olander, Los Angeles, CA 1987 “Women Photographers in America,” Barndsall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Bibliography Art Week, “Artwork for Orange Metro,” March 2006, pp. 24-25 Bartron, Stephanie. “Teen Dreams - Laura London Plays Dress-Up,” Glue, Bevevino, Amy. “On The Wall,” Real Detroit Weekly, March 3, 2004, p. 45 (illus.) Collins, Lisa M. “Head Games March 6 to April 17 Revolution Art Gallery,” California Examiner, “Artists Transform Metro Line Into Work Of Art,” March, Contemporary, “Art Chicago 2004,” issue 65, p. 75 (illus.) Cotter, Holland. “Changes Aside, Soho Is Still Very Much Soho,” The New York Times, February 12, 1999, pp. B 33-35 Daily News, “Designs On Orange Line,” March 24, 2005, p. 5 Faust, Lily. “Laura London,” The New York Art World, February, 2000, p. 15 Firstenberg, Lauri. “Laura London at Caren Golden Fine Art,” NY Arts, February 1999, p. 51. (illus.) Frank, Peter. “Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, May 29 - June 4, 1998 (illus.) Frank, Peter. “Pick of the Week - The Store Show,” LA Weekly, 1990 Fulcher, Dawn. “Preview: Laura London at Caren Golden Fine Art,” Contemporary Hart, Jane. Zing Magazine, Winter 1998, vol. 5 (illus.) Hoban, Phoebe. “Laura London - Her Fave Raves,” Smock, Spring/Summer, Ibarra, Nikki. “Next Stop Orange Line Art Work,” The Pierce College Round-Up, Ise, Claudine. “Worth Watching,” LA Times, May 1, 1998, p. F24 Ise, Claudine. “The Narrative Turn,” Art Week, July 1997 (illus.) Jaeger, William. “A Look at Uncertainty of Truth,”Times Union, March 26, 2000 Kahan, Robin. “Time Capsule,” Encyclopedia of Women Artists, 1995 (illus.) Kandel, Susan. “London’s Women,” Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1995 Kandel, Susan. “The Laura Show,” Los Angeles Times, September 3, 1992 Las Virgenes Enterprise, “BTA/Pierce Plan Joint Art Show for Orange Line,” April “Les Flours,” Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1991 Mahoney, Robert. “Laura London,” Time Out NY, February 18-25, 1999 (illus.) Myers, Holly. “London’s Photos Depict Teen Dreams, Fantasies,” LATimes Metro LA adjunt of NOHO>LA, “Art For The Metro Orange Line,” March 29, 2005, Metropolitan Home, "Opening Gambit," July/August Issue 2007, p. 100 (illus.) Nahas, Dominique. “Identity Crisis,” Review, April 1998, p. 24 “New Observations,” Multiple Choice, 1995, Issue #100 (illus.) NY Arts, Illustration in Chelsea Gallery Listings (illus.) Orange Line Metro, “Artists Of The Metro,” (illus.) Public Art Review, U.S. Recent Projects, issue 36, spring/summer, 2007 Rickels, Laurence A, “Bridge Isn’t Falling Down, catalog essay, Oct. 2000 Rockwell, Steve. “Toronto Gallery Tour,” dart International, Winter 2004, Roug, Louise. “An Exhibit That May Move You,” Los Angeles Times, March 30, Schiller, Rache. “Pluralities of Truth,” The Skidmore News, March 31, 2000 Smith, Roberta. “Heaven Missing,” The New York Times, September 10, 1993 “The Store Show,” Art Issues, Summer 1991 Turner, Grady, T. “Art & Museum Events, NY Today Picks,” The New York Times/New York Today, www.nytoday.com, January 26 1999 Valdez, Sarah. “Bootleg Identity,” Time Out NY, June 27 - July 4, 2004 The Valley Vantage, “Artists Transform Metro Orange Line Into A Work Of Art,” “Voice Choices,” Village Voice, September 14, 1993 Warner Center News, “Artists Transform Metro Orange Line Into A Work Of Art,” Watson, Simon. “First Look,” Simon Says, January 1999, (illus.) Exhibition Catalogs “A Plurality of Truths,” Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 2000 with essays: After School Special,” works on paper, inc., 2000, essay by Laurence A. Rickels (illus.) “Laura London,” works on paper, inc., 1998, essay “Smoke and Mirrors” by Sarah “The Social Eye Catalog,” Art Frankfurt, 1996 with essay by Barbara Hoffman (illus.) “True Bliss,” LACE, Los Angeles, CA, 1996 (illus.) Grants and Awards 2003 MTA Grant, San Fernando Valley Metro Rapid Transitway Station, Selected Public Collections Education Website |
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