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Laura Splan's work interrogates the material manifestations of our cultural ambivalence towards the human body. Her conceptually based projects employ a range of traditional and digital techniques. She often uses found objects and appropriated sources to explore socially constructed perceptions of order and disorder. Much of her work is inspired by experimentation with materials and processes including blood, cosmetic facial peel and digital fabrication.
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FALL LECTURER—STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Stanford University
Lecturer, Department of Art & Art History
Autumn 2018 Quarter Art Practice Courses:
Embodied Interfaces and Data as Material
Photo: Nihar Makwana for Creative Tech Week
RECENT EXHIBITION —NEWARK
Mirror Mirror, Feb 8–Dec 20, 2018
Curated by Anonda Bell
Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Artists: Laura Splan, Martha Wilson, William Kentridge, Faith Ringgold, Dread Scott, Patricia Piccinini, Hyphen-Labs, Paolo Cirio, E.V. Day, Nona Faustine, Ani Liu, Leah DeVun, Riva Lehrer, Wendy Red Star, Leo Selvaggio and others
GALLERY WEBSITE / PRESS RELEASE
PROJECT INFO (Selected works from Manifest on view)
Photo Credit: Art Paxton
RECENT SOLO EXHBITION—MONTRÉAL
Laura Splan: Embodied Objects
March 15–April 21, 2018
Occurrence Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada
RECENT PERFORMANCE—NEW YORK CITY
Harvestworks TEAM Lab
Governors Island, New York, NY
September 1 & 2, 2018
Sculptural performance with biosensor actuated apparatus and sound.
RECENT exhibition—SALZBURG
Possible Bodies
Curated by Karla Spiluttini and Korinna Lindinger
Sep 28–Nov 7, 2018
Exhibition of subnetAIR Residency Artists: Danny Bracken, Young Suk Lee, Lucas Norer, Robert Praxmarer, Anthony Rayzhekov, Laura Splan, Klaus Spiess und Lucie Strecker
Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg, Austria
RECENT artist talk—sAN FRANCISCO
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITION—PHILADELPHIA
3675 Market Street Grand Opening Celebration
Group exhibition curated by Angela McQuillan
ARTISTS: Deirdre Murphy, Laura Splan, Heather Dewey-Hagborg with special cocktails created by Orkan Telhan
November 9, 2018
Philadelphia, PA
CURRENT GROUP EXHIBITION—SAN FRANCISCO
October 11, 2018–February 28, 2019
Stitching & Weaving in the Digital Age
Curated by Christine Duval
ARTISTS: Guillermo Bert, Lia Cook, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, James Lanahan, Clive McCarthy, Casey Reas, Ligorano Reese, Windy Chien, Laura Splan
The Residence de France, San Francisco, CA
EXHIBITION INFO
GROUP EXHIBITION—ONLINE
Claiming Needles
Curated by Peggy Schoenegge and Darja Zub
Presented by peer to space
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITION—SANTA FE
Collecting Digital Art:
Highlights + New Acquisitions from the Thoma Foundation
ART HOUSE, Santa Fe, NM
Artists: Beryl Korot, Brigitte Kowanz, Guillermo Galindo, Laura Splan, Steina Vasulka, Vera Molnar, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eduardo Kac, and others
EXHIBITION INFO
COLLECTION INFO
VISITING ARTIST—STANFORD, SAIC, CCA
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Visiting Artist in Camille Utterback's Drawing with Code course, Nov 2018
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist in Snow Yunxue Fu's Digitization Seminar, Nov 2018
California College of Art, Oakland, CA
Visiting Artist in Kimberlee Koym-Murteira’s 4D Action/Interaction class, Nov 2018
RECENT PRESS
“...In Splan’s works, coded data captured from bodily actions… is transformed into hypnotic rhythmic patterns and re-coded as sensory input. Aesthetically pleasurable and quantifiable, Splan deftly weaves scientific findings into visually stimulating artworks…”
— Audra Lambert, Arte Fuse
RECENT ARTIST RESIDENCY—PHILADELPHIA
BioArt Residency
Integral Molecular, Science Center, Philadelphia, PA
Funded by the Knight Foundation
The BioArt Residency program fosters collaboration between artists and scientists. Artists produce creative research projects in Integral Molecular’s biotechnology laboratory. The program provides unique access, opportunity and awareness for artists to explore the ever-changing world of biotechnology.
RECENT ACQUISITION
NYU Langone Art Collection, New York, NY
Recursive Expressions (Squint #1-3)
archival pigment prints on hot press cotton rag
24" x 24" each
edition of 5 + 1 AP
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITION—WHITEWATER
Reading Material
Curators: Michael Flanagan, Susan Messer, Melanie Herzog
February 22–March 23, 2018
Crossman Gallery
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
GALLERY WEBSITE
PROJECT INFO (Selected works from Trousseau will be on view)
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITION—MONTRÉAL
Material Turn
March 8–April 13, 2018
Curated by WhiteFeather Hunter & Kelly Thompson
Artists: Laura Splan, LoVid, Ellen Rothenberg, Lia Cook, Robin Kang, others
La Galerie FOFA, Université Concordia
Montréal, Québec, Canada
(Photo: Guy L'Heureux)
EXHIBITION INFO
SOLO EXHIBITION—NEW YORK CITY
Manifest
June 28–August 23, 2017
Curated by Katherine Meehan, NYU Langone Art Collection
NYU Langone Medical Center Art Gallery, New York, NY
INTERVIEW—SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS
#FiftyQuestions with Laura Splan
Questions by Quintan Ana Wikswo
August 2, 2017
"Some Serious Business presents #FiftyQuestions to highlight wonderful folks that are creating, presenting, questioning and critiquing."
Photo by NYU Langone Art Program & Collection
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SOLO EXHIBITION—HOUSTON
Material Expressions
January 13–February 11, 2017
Capsule Gallery, Houston, TX
EXHIBITION IMAGES
VIDEO PROFILE
Artist Laura Splan at Capsule Gallery
By Brenda Cruz-Wolf
January 2017
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