A native of New York’s Hudson River Valley, Laura Moriarty
makes process-driven works with pigmented beeswax
whose forms, colors, textures and patterns result from
processes similar to those that shape and reshape the
earth.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Stream, a public art project of the Art & Culture Program at Albany International Airport
2022 Floating, the Department of Regional Art Workers (D.R.A.W.), Kingston, NY
2021 Resurfacing, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
2020 Remembering the Future, Sager/Braudis Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
2017 Pay Dirt, University Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
Down into the deep, The Aidron Duckworth Art Museum, Meriden, New Hampshire
2016 Laura Moriarty, Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York, New York
2015 Translating Earth/Transforming Sea, The Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas, curated by Andrea Packard
2014 Scratched Record, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
2014 Intimate Monuments, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, New York
2012 Landslides, James W. Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Kaleidocombs: The Subconscious Playground, UAlbany Curating Contemporary Art Course Exhibition, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, New York
2023 Entanglements, Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2022 Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, Albany Center Galleries, Albany, New York
2021 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition, Opalka Gallery, Russell Sage College
2020 The Earth Beneath their Feet, Pamela Salsbury Gallery, Hudson, New York
2020 Interpreting the Natural: Chinese Scholars’ Rocks, The Korean Cultural Center, New York, New York, curated by Donna Dodson
2018 SPECTRUM, The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York, Co-curated by Kiki Smith and Kate Menconeri (catalog)
2017 Debtfair (participating artist), a project of Occupy Museums, Whitney Biennial 2017,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
2017 Still Eden, Collar Works, Troy, New York, curated by Elizabeth Dubbin
2016 A Strategraphic Fiction, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
2016 Geomagic: Art, Science and the Zuhl Collection, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2015 Empire of Dirt, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Curated by Anonda Bell
2014 Shifting Ecologies. The Painting Center, New York, New York
2013 Second Nature, Albany International Airport, Colonie, New York
2012 Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York, curated by Linda Weintraub
2010 Field Notes: Revisions. Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia at Charlottesville
2009 Field Notes: States of Mind. Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland.
2008 Hyper-Nature. Spaces, Cleveland, OH
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023 Residency, the Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2022 Individual Artist Commission, Arts Mid-Hudson
2021 Rabbit Island Residency, Lake Superior, Michigan
2016 Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2016 Baer Art Center Artist in Residence, Hofsos, Iceland
2013 Platte Clove Artist in Residence, Catskill Center for Conservation, Arkville, NY
2009 MARK 09 Award, New York Foundation for the Arts
2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2005 Radius Award, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Ridgefield Guild of Artists
2004 Frans Masereel Center Artist in Residence, Kasterlee, Belgium
1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1996 Ucross Foundation Residency, Clearmont, WY
SELECTED MEDIA & BIBIOGRAPHY
Mattera, Joanne; 'Italianita: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience', Well-Fed Artist Press, 2023
‘Beeswax Artwork with Laura Moriarty’ AHA! A House for Arts, WMHT Public Television, Season 8 Episode 3, Aired 7/22/22
Kate Sierzputowski; ‘Geode-Like Sculptures Formed From Colorful Layers of Molten Beeswax’, colossal.com, January 10, 2017
Edith Newhall; ‘Anthropocene Art’, The Inquirer Daily News, Philadelphia, PA, January 7, 2017
Naomi Orwin; ‘The Anthropocene becomes art: Digging the future out of the present’, Broad Street Review, August 22, 2016
Anne Martens; ‘Space Invasion: Painting’s Sculptural Presence’. Artillery Magazine, March/April 2015
Arthur Whitman; ‘Earth, Skin and Desire’. The Ithaca Times, September 18, 2014
Andrea Packard,; ‘The Translator’s Dilemma: Sculpting Landscape in the Anthropocene’. Catalog essay for the exhibition, Translating Earth, Transforming Sea at the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas, May 1 - June 21, 2014
Kristin Bauer; ‘Lynda Benglis and 6 Contemporary Artists Sculpt with Paint.’ Beautiful Decay Mag- azine, 11/23/13
Tammy La Gorce; ‘Skin and Earth, Suddenly Unrecognizable: Terra Incognita on exhibition at the College of New Rochelle’, The New York Times, 3/1/13
Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse; Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life. Published by Punctum Books, December, 2012
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Coutts Bank, London
Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY
The Art Bank, a program of the US Department of State
The Baer Art Collection, Reykjavik, Iceland
The Philip & Muriel Berman Art Museum, Collegeville, PA
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Jyväskylä Art Museum Holvi, Finland
The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
The Royal Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
The Flemish Ministry of Culture, Kasterlee, Belgium
The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH