Master of Fine Art, Sculpture, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Bachelor of Art, University of California, Irvine, CA

2011 Reformulations, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
2009 Body Politic, West Gallery, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
2008 Negative Space, medicine FACTORY, Memphis, TN
2007 Sympathetic Coordination, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
2006 Delicate Structures, Innate Forces, The New York Hall of Science, New York, NY
2005 Integrated Bodies, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Domesticated Viscera, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Inside Out, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Disbursement and Accumulation, Catharine Clark Gallery Project Rooms, San Francisco, CA
Reflexive, Build, San Francisco, CA

2011
Extreme Materials 2, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Watching Hands, David J. Sencer CDC Museum In Association with the Smithsonian Institution, Atlanta, GA (Commission)
Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, Swope Museum, Terre Haute, IN
2010
Even Better Than the Real Thing: The Art of the Uncanny, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Manifold: The Body Divided, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Unravelled, Preston Manor, Brighton & Hove, UK (Commission)
Fuzzy Logic, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Beware of Embroidery, PM Gallery & House, London, UK
2009
Craftwerk 2.0, Jönköpings County Museum, Jönköping, Sweden
mama-san, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Cheongju International Craft Biennale: Dissolving Views, Cheongju, South Korea
Re/Formations, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC (Commission)
The Longest Day of Summer. One Lucky Day., S1F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dynamic Equilibrium, Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady NY
Sick Love, Catherine Slip Gallery, New York, NY
Digital Rituals, JUNGLE, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Manuf®actured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Specimen: Representing the natural world, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark, NJ
Biological Imperative, Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J.
Phenomena(l), Spaces, Cleveland, OH
2007
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Brief Encounters, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Raised in Craftivity, Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO
Beneath the Skin, Limn Art Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
The Powder Room, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Subjects of Hybridization, Subtle Technologies Festival: in situ: art, body, medicine, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2006
Four Freedoms, Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, Art & Culture Center Of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2005
SubAnatomy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA
The Winter Life, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Intelligent Distribution, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
Kala Fellowship Award Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Trillium Show, SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Finesse, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New American Talent 19, Arthouse, Austin, TX
Meat Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
High Fiber, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Gen Art SF New Fangle New Media Art Exhibition, Herbst International Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, CA (Commission)
Blur, the Bekins, Santa Barbara, CA
Hidden Treasures, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
2003
Nightworks' Canal Street Projection Project, New Orleans, LA
Introductions South, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, C A
life after / afterlife, Delta Axis Gallery, Memphis, TN
[sub]urban, [sub]version, Westinghouse Building Little Tokyo Lofts, Los Angeles, CA
Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Daily Special, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Cozy, Spanganga Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Student Sculpture Biennial, Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, San Francisco, CA
Mystery Ball, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
I/O #3: Skin, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
Murphy & Cadogan Award Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA
Synesthesia, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2000
Fuzzy Logic, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Fabric, Objects, and Art, Ladyfest, Arrowspace, Olympia, WA
1999
The Soft Museum, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Tender, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2012 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (February)
2011 Tofte Lake Center Emerging Artists Program, Ely, MN
2010 Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY
2008 medicine FACTORY, Memphis, TN
2004 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2012 Vermont Studio Center Artist's Grant
2010 Pollock–Krasner Visual Arts Fellowship
2007 Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant for Visual Arts
2004 Kala Art Institute Fellowship Award
2003 Trillium Fund Grant
2002 Herringer Prize for Excellence in Art
2001 Eklind Fellowship
Cadogan Fine Arts Fellowship

2012
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Art Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA (March)
2011
BioArt, Biohumanities Guest Lecturer/Discussant, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Laura Splan: Visiting Artist Lecture, San Francisco State University, Co-Presented by KQED, San Francisco, CA
2009
Faculty Lecture Series, Shakerag Workshops, St. Andrew's-Sewanee, Sewanee, TN
Body Politic, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
2008
Reflexive, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Visiting Artist, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
2007
Rendering the Invisible, Biology and Art: Two Worlds or One?, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
Public Lecture Series, Textiles Department, California College of Art, Oakland, CA
2006
Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2005
Art and Culture Lecture Series, California State Summer School for the Arts, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
Electronic Arts Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Spring Semester, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Domesticated Viscera, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Fellowship Artist Lecture, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2004
Brown Bag Lecture Series, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist, St. Mary's College, Art Department, Moraga, CA
2003
Laura Splan & Philip Ross, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

2010 Dead or Alive: Intersections of Art and Science Roundtable, Museum for Art and Design, New York, NY
2009 Re/Formations, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
2007 Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum for Art and Design, New York, NY
2005 Carnal Knowledge, MOCA at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
2002 Ladyfest Artist Panel, Spring Tower, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Women's Studies Quarterly, "Viral", Volume 40, Numbers 1&2, Spring/Summer, CUNY Feminist Press
2011 Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery, Leanne Prain, Arsenal Pulp Press
2010 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, University of Chicago Press, Winter 2010-11 Issue, Cover
2009 Geo Magazine, "Gefahr, in Zierde gebannt", November, p. 20
Handarbeta För En Bättre Värld, pp. 38-39
2005 Surface Design Journal: Machine Embroidery, "Informed Source", Fall 2005, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 46-47
2004 Public Library of Science Medicine Journal, November issue, cover

2008 Checking on the Arts, WKNO, Memphis, TN, Interview by Kacky Walton
2007 Eight Forty-Eight: An Artist's Unconventional Medium, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, Interview & Story by Tim Carnahan
2005 Spark: Artist in Search of a Medium, March 2nd and 4th, KQED, San Francisco, CA

2012 Thread of Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2011 Watching Hands, David J. Sencer CDC Museum In Association with the Smithsonian Institution, Atlanta, GA
Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery, By Leanne Prain, Arsenal Pulp Press
2010 Manifold: The Body Divided, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Unravelled, Preston Manor, Brighton & Hove, UK
2009 Dynamic Equilibrium, Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady NY
Handarbeta För En Bättre Värld, Jönköpings County Museum, Jönköping, Sweden
Cheongju International Craft Biennale: Dissolving Views, Cheongju, South Korea
2008 Manuf®actured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects,
By Steven Skov Holt & Mara Holt Skov
Specimen: Representing the natural world, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark, NJ
2007 Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum for Art and Design, New York, NY
The Powder Room, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Four Freedoms, Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
2005 SubAnatomy, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
2004 Meat Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, pp. 4-5
New American Talent, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, TX

Sklar, Julia, "'Extreme Materials 2': An eye-opening new exhibit", University of Rochester Campus Times, Oct 27, 2011
Rafferty, Rebecca, "Extreme Materials 2", City Newspaper, Oct 26, 2011
Matray, Margaret, "Nicolaysen Art Museum opens four new exhibitions", Casper Star-Tribune, Sep 30, 2011
Newman, Martin, "Diva Zappa's Bruce at Maison Bertaux", Mirror, Feb 2, 2011
Groeger, Lena, "Blood and lace: Laura Splan's artwork will make you look – twice", Scienceline, Jan 25, 2011
Rossbauer, Maria, "Die Schönheit der Viren", Die Tageszeitung, Dec 18, 2010, p18
Angier, Natalie, "Of Compost, Molecules and Insects, Art Is Born", The New York Times, May 4, 2010, pD1
Swinkels, Dorothé, "Onbehaaglijke schoonheid", Textiel Plus, Summer 2010, #212, pp28-30
Love, Emma, "Using their threads: A new show looks to the future of embroidery", Crafts Magazine, #222, Jan 2010
Newman, Martin, "Art: Beware of Embroidery at Ealing's PM Gallery", The Mirror, Jan 19, 2010
Lopeman, Elizabeth, "Domestic Subversion", American Craft Magazine, Dec 2009, Vol 69, #6, pp28-29
Davies, Stacy, "Macramé Made Hip", Inland Empire Weekly, Feb 2009
Crutchfield, Whitney, "Laura Splan: Body of Evidence", Fiberarts, Jan 2009, p80
McFarland, Paulina, Interview with Laura Splan, Art XX Magazine, 2009, #2, pp40-45
Munuera, Ivan Lopez, "¿Es Posible Un Picasso De Los Tapetes De Crochet?", Pasajes Diseno, #8, Dec 2008, pp50-53
Hicks, Bob, "Manufractured at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, The Oregonian, Sep 13, 2008
Barton, Randall, "Manuf®actured", The Portland Tribune, Sep 4, 2008
Sood, Sheena, "Extreme Embroidery", Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Feb 2008
Coburn, Tyler, Pretty on the Inside, Rhizome, Apr 30, 2008
Mestel, Rosie, "Medical Craft Madness", Los Angeles Times, Apr 2008
Elder, Gaye, "Pricked: Extreme Embroidery," Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Winter 2007/08, pp28-33
Gill, Leonard, "Drawing Blood," Memphis Flyer, Issue #986, Jan 17, 2008
Camhi, Leslie, "Let's Get Stitched: A radical take on an old art, 'Pricked' needles the traditional craft of embroidery", Village Voice, Nov 20, 2007
Jackson, Julie, "From Prozac To Skin Peels", Craft, Vol 5, Nov 2007
Self, Dana, "Knit Happens: Raised in Craftivity ain't your grandma's crochet work", The Pitch, Sep 20, 2007
Trafton, Robin, "Art review: 'Raised in Craftivity' is engaging group show", The Kansas City Star, Sep 20, 2007
Baker, Kenneth, "The man works wonders with, yes, paint rollers", San Francisco Chronicle, Jun 16, 2007, pE1
Martin, Stacy, "Test People and Beneath the Skin: Levitation and latch-hook rugs at Limn", San Francisco Bay Guardian, Jul 4, 2007
Obermeyer, Lindsay, "Arts and Sciences", Fiberarts, Summer 2007, Vol 34, #1
Flores, Graciela, "Making macro from micro", The Scientist, May 4, 2007
Herrmann, Andrew, "Artist finds best drawing material is right at her fingertips", Chicago Sun Times, May 3, 2007, Vol 60, #75, p5
Ornes, Stephen, "Art: Of Doilies and Disease", Discover Magazine, Feb 2007, pp66-67
Gehman, Geoff, "21st-century artists explore FDR's 1941 freedoms at 'Berg", The Morning Call, Oct 26, 2006, pp8-9
Valenzuela, América, "Medicina en la galería de arte", EL MUNDO Área de Salud, Oct 7, 2006
Goe, Tara, "The Inside-Out Art of Laura Splan", Kitchen Sink, Vol 4, #1, 2006, pp71-75
Sohn, K. Lee, "Creativity in the Corporate Age: When art imitates life a little too closely", Miami New Times, Feb 16, 2006
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Arnold, Eric K., "Meltdown: Plastic Fantastic," East Bay Express, Vol 27, #47, Aug 31, 2005, p24
Berry, Colin, "SubAnatomy and Nathan Lynch" Artweek, Jul 2005, pp12-13
Valenzuela, América, "CIENCIA ILUSTRADA (II): Los artistas en el laboratorio", El Mundo: MEDICINA, Jul 15, 2005
Miles, Todd, "seeing red", 7x7 San Francisco Magazine, May 2005, p48
Bing, Alison, "Laura Splan: Femina Potens", SF Gate: Art, Mar 2005
Proulx, Mélissa, "Pop Culture: Maux d'hiver", Voir, #506, Feb 10, 2005
Armstrong, Denis, "SAW takes art to the outdoor people", The Ottawa Sun, Wednesday, Feb 2, 2005, p43
Euteneier, Anita, "SAW Gallery's Winter Exposure", Ottawa Xpress, Vol 12, #2, Jan 13, 2005
Bing, Alison, "Meat Show at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery", Artweek, Feb 2005, Vol 36, #1, p29
Vekic, Natalija, "Gallery Project", Release Print, Jan 2005, Vol 28, #1, pp24-25
Buckner, Clark, "Meat Show", The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dec 22-28, 2004, Vol. 39, #12
Saldivar , Steve, "This Meat Can't Be Beat", The Daily Californian, Dec 2, 2004
Davis, Virginia, "High Fiber", Fiberarts, Nov 2004, pp58-59
Polgar, Robi, "New American Talent – The 19th Exhibition", Austin Chronicle, Aug 6, 2004
Gagnon, Adrienne, "Linear Thinking", San Francisco Weekly, Jul 21, 2004
Baker, Kenneth, "Hosfelt Gallery show suggests we're blinded by information", San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 10, 2004, pE-1
Campbell, Rob, "Natural Refinement: Organic takes art by the roots and (gently) pulls", VC Reporter, Dec 15, 2003
Woodard, Josef, "All certified Organic", Los Angeles Times, Calendar Weekend, Dec 4, 2003
Cheng, DeWitt, "Introductions South at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art", Artweek, Oct 2003, Vol. 34, #8
Brenneman, Christine, "Illegal Art at SFMOMA Artists Gallery", Artweek, Sep 2003, Vol 34, #7, p17
Tromble, Meredith, "West Coast", stretcher.org, Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003
Gaither, Chris, "Art attack", The Boston Globe, Jul 14, 2003, pC1
Lidor, Danit, "Artists Just Wanna Be Free", wired.com: Wired News, Jul 07, 2003
Swanhuyser, Hiya, "Copy Right or Wrong, Freedoom of Expression: Illegal?", San Francisco Weekly, Jul 2, 2003, p30
Tompkins, J.H., "8 Days a Week: Something in the Air", San Francisco Bay Guardian, Jul 2, 2003, pp66-67
Davis, Chris, "Little Green Anthropologists", Memphis Flyer, Jun 12, 2003, p27
Tudor, Silke, "House of Tudor", San Francisco Weekly, Dec 24, 2002
Helfand, Glen, "Pet And Touch: Two digital artists bring the organic body onto the computer", SF Gate, Jul 2002