Laura Splan
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Decorative Arts
Group Exhibition
"Doilies" and "Renatured" in "Fragile Forms" at NYU Langone Art Gallery
featuring pioneering viral artworks (lace sculptures by Laura Splan, glass sculptures by Luke Jerram)
2025
Group Exhibition
"Doilies" in "Life Eternal: The Nobel Prize Museum at Liljevalchs"
exhibition exploring notions of eternity with Laura Splan, Anna Dumitriu, Andrea Galvani, Mark Dion, Rineke Dijkstra, William Kentridge...
2022
Group Exhibition
"Unraveling" in "The Hidden Side of Lace" at CC De Ververij
exhibition exploring interpretations of lace with Laura Splan, Wim Delvoye, James Lee Byars, Dirk Braeckman, Guy Mees, René Heyvaert, Tatjana Wolska...
2022
Group Exhibition
"Embodied Objects" and "Manifest" in "Haptic/Somatic" at Buley Library Gallery
artworks created with biometric data in exhibition exploring how technology expands our ability to perceive the natural world
2022
Artwork
"Embodied Objects"
computerized Jacquard weavings with data-driven patterns created with EMG recordings of bodily movement
2016
Commission
"Host" in "Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS" at Van/Every Smith Gallery
installation in exhibition with Laura Splan, Keith Haring, Frank Moore, Robert Farber, Mike Hoolboom, Frederick Weston...
2014
Artwork
"Convergence"
installation with photography and sculpture made in collaboration with Ariana Page Russell at Magnan Metz Gallery
2014
Commission
"Trousseau" in "Unravelling the Manor" at Preston Manor
facial peel sculptures in conceptual craft exhibition with Laura Splan, Kira O’Reilly, Catherine Bertola, Matt Smith, Maria Rivans...
2010
Artwork
"Exogenous"
paintings with varying dilutions of blood stenciled through doilies onto watercolor paper
2010
Artwork
"Subcutaneous"
hand embroidery of text on remnant cosmetic facial skin peel
2009
Artwork
"Fan (Anatomy of the Gaze)"
computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with retina anatomy as decorative motif
2009
Artwork
"Handkerchief (Anatomy of Tears)"
computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with tear duct anatomy as decorative motif
2009
Commission
"Doilies" and "Trousseau" in "Re/Formations" at Van Every/Smith Galleries
textile sculptures in exhibition with Laura Splan, Rebecca Horn, Nancy Fried, Harriet Sanderson, Judith Scott...
2009
Artwork
"Wallpaper" & "Negligee" in "Manufractured" at Museum of Contemporary Craft
blood wallpaper and facial peel sculpture in exhibition with Laura Splan, Sonya Clark, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Marcel Wanders, Devorah Sperber...
2008
Artwork
"Incomplete Retrieval"
drawings of lace rendered in blood on watercolor paper
2007
Artwork
"Elaborative Encoding"
drawing of lace rendered in blood
2007
Artwork
"Doilies (SARS, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Hepadna)"
digitally fabricated lace sculptures depicting viruses (SARS, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Hepadna)
2004
Artwork
"Wallpaper/Samples"
wallpaper samples hand-painted with blood
2003