Bio

Laura Moriarty was born in Beacon, New York in 1960, and currently lives and works in Rosendale, New York. A self-taught artist, her work has been the subject of twelve solo exhibitions since 1992, including, 'Upheaval' at Artspace, New Haven (2009). Moriarty’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions throughout the US, Canada and Europe, including Geologic Time at Conrad Wilde Gallery (2010); Ecotones and Transition Zones at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (2009); Hyper-Nature at Spaces in Cleveland (2008); and Natural Selection at Albany International Airport (2007).  Residencies include the NOCCA Institute in New Orleans, Women’s Studio Workshop, The Frans Masereel Center in Belgium, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and The Ucross Foundation in Wyoming.  Laura has the distinction of having been awarded two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, (1997 and 2007).  In 2009, the artist was selected to take part in MARK 09, a professional practice program for visual artists administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was subsequently selected to be a statewide consultant for the program.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Upheaval.  ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
        Ice Ribbons. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2008 Scientific Wild Ass Guess. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston, NY
2004 Compressionistic Paintings. Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY
2002 Painting in the Language of Geology. Ceres’ Project Room, New York, NY
        Flatness. Haggerty Art Gallery, The University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2001 Going through Phases. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Aerial View. SFA Gallery Space, New York, NY
1996 Manual Labor. Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY
1995 Working Affinities: Laura Moriarty. Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Geologic Time. Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
        Thoreau's Legacy. Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
        Field Notes: Revisions. Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

2009 Graphica Creativa 09: Co-op. Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland.
        Ecotones and Transition Zones. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz. 
        New Prints 2009/Spring. Selected by Polly Apfelbaum, IPCNY, New York, NY
        Castle Hill @ PAAM: 38 Years of Inspiration. Provincetown Art Association and Museum
        On the Edge: Visiting Artist Series. The NOCCA Institute, New Orleans, LA

2008 Hyper-Nature. Spaces, Cleveland, OH
        The Medium is the Message. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz.
        Aldrich Undercover. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

2007 Natural Selection. The Art & Culture Program at Albany International Airport, Albany, NY. Curated by Sharon Bates.
        The Uncanny Valley. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz.
        Here and Now: Encaustics and Time. MM Galleries, San Francisco, CA
        New ’07: Nurturing the Edge. CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY

2006 Another place. NurtureArt @ Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Eleanor Eichenbaum.
        WaxWorks. Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT.

2005 Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeast New York. The Aldrich Contemporary
        Art Museum and Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT.
        Artistic Fragments: Art 2005. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. Selected by Benny Andrews.
        Encaustic Works 2005. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz.

2004 Shelters: The Byrdcliffe Outdoor Exhibition 2004. Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY.

2003 Unearthed. The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
        Kingston Sculpture Biennial [5]. Millen’s Steel Building, Kingston, NY. Curated by Judy Pfaff.
        Frequencies. Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.

2002 Curator’s Choice. 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY. Selected by Kim Foster.
        20 years of printmaking at the Frans Masereel Centre, Belgium. Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, U.K.

2001 Breaking the Rules: Art 2001. Katonah Museum of Art, NY. Selected by Eugenie Tsai.
        New Prints 2001 – Summer. International Print Center New York, New York, NY


AWARDS & GRANTS

2009 NYFA MARK Award
2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunities Stipend (7x)
2007/8 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2005 Radius Award, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Ridgefield Guild of Artists
2002 Artists Talk on Art Curator’s Choice Award
2000 Craft Alliance of New York State Career Development Grant
1997/8 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1995 New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant (with the Historic D&H Canal Museum)
1990 Artists’ Space Independent Project Grant


RESIDENCIES

2008 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
        The NOCCA Institute, New Orleans, LA
2007 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2004 Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
2004 Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
2002 Matrix Visiting Artist, The University of Dallas, TX
2000 Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
1999 VCCA International Exchange Fellowship, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
1999 The Printmaking Council of New Jersey
1998 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1996 Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY

LECTURES, TALKS & PANELS

2009 Smack Mellon Studio, Brooklyn, NY. NYFA MARK Artist Talk
Samuel Dorsky Art Museum, State University of New York at New Paltz.
Field Notes: States of Mind collaboration artists talk
in conjunction with the exhibition, Ecotones and Transition Zones.
2008 Panel: Gallerists in Conversation at the 2nd Annual Encaustic Conference
at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2007 Panel: Location, Location, Location, moderated by Beth E. Wilson at the
Art Society of Kingston, NY
2005 WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Albany, NY. Interviewed for Encaustic Works 05 exhibition
at the Samuel Dorsky Art Museum.
2004 Grant panelist for New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts SOS program.
2003 People Art Talking with Sally Spillane, WKZE, Sharon, CT (radio interview)
Artist Talk, The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Matrix Visiting Artist Lecture, The University of Dallas
2002 Visiting Artist Lecture, The College of Santa Fe @ the Santa Fe Art Institute
1999 Visiting Artist Lecture, The Printmaking Council of New Jersey

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

tuscene.com; 'Sightseeing', Tu Scene: Visual Art in Tucson, February 10, 2010
Stockton Moore, Cindy; Mining Color: Laura Moriarty's Encaustic Works. Ducts.org, Issue 25, Summer 2010
Mattera, Joanne; Convoluted Connections, Joanne Mattera Art Blog, January 8, 2010
Fisher, Marisa D.; Gallery Features Earthy New Collection. The Arizona Daily Wildcat, February 17, 2010
Rice, Ross; Ecotones and Transition Zones, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Art Highlights, Roll Magazine, August, 2009
Litt, Steven; ‘Spaces exhibition revolves around nightmarish sculptures that resemble biology experiments’, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH, 11/27/08
Utter, Douglas Max; ‘Against Nature: Artists at SPACES Rebuild Reality’, Cleveland Scene, 12/13/08
Hopkins, Randi; ‘Waxing Poetic’, The Phoenix, Boson, MA, June 3, 2008
Wilson, Beth E.; ‘Portfolio: Laura Moriarty’, Chronogram Magazine, Luminary Publishing, NY, May 2008
Wasserman, Nadine; ‘Species Pieces: Natural Selection at Albany International Airport Gallery’, Metroland, Albany, NY, Jan. 2007
Kane, Tim; ‘Selection’ displays link of art, nature. The Times Union, Albany, NY April 1, 2007
Bjornland, Karen; ‘Wild kingdom’ at airport’s gallery enables visitors to travel back in time. The Daily Gazette, Albany, NY 3/31/07
Lombardi, D. Dominick; ‘Waxworks” NYArts Magazine, Jan/Feb 2007
Smart, Paul; ‘Foresighted Fossils: Laura Moriarty’s art plays with plate tectonics as metaphor’, Art alm@nac, Ulster Publishing, 6/16/05
Lombardi, Dominick; ‘Does inspiration lurk in the kitchen?’ The New York Times, 1/4/05
Brickman, David; ‘Laura Moriarty: Compressionistic Paintings’. Metroland, Albany,. NY, 9/16/2004
Wilson, Beth E.; ‘Philosopher’s Walks’. Chronogram Magazine, New Paltz, NY, 7/2004
Smart, Paul; ‘A Beacon for artists’. Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY, 5/6/04
Rice, Robin; ‘Down to Earth’. Citypaper, Philadelphia, PA, 10/16/03
Mitchell, Annette; Images In Wax: Contemporary Encaustic. Art New England, October/November 2001
Lombardi, D. Dominick; Exploring the Gamut of Contemporary Art, The New York Times, 6/17/01.


BOOKS & CATALOGS

Graphica Creativa 2009: Co-Op
Catalogue for the 12th International Printmaking Triennial
Jyväskylä Art Museum Holvi, Finland

Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region
Exhibition catalogue with an essay by Leah Douglas
the Art & Culture Program at Albany International Airport
Albany, NY, June – September, 2007.

Encaustic Works 2005
Exhibition catalogue featuring the essay by co-curator, Beth E. Wilson
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz.

The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax
by Joanne Mattera
Watson-Guptil, New York, NY 2001. Illustrated

New American Paintings
Number 26: Northeast Edition
Selected by Terrie Sultan,
The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2000. Illustrated

The Best of Printmaking: An International Collection
Selected by Lynne Allen and Phyllis McGibbon
Rockport Publishing, Gloucester, MA, 1997. Illustrated

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Jyväskylä Art Museum Holvi, Finland
The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Royal Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
The University of Dallas, Irving, TX
Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus Archives, Munich, Germany
The Flemish Ministry of Culture, Kasterlee, Belgium
Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA