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: heating and cooling, erosion, subduction, friction, enfolding, weathering, slippage.
Selected Awards & Honors
2023 Cill Rialaig Residency, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2022 Individual Artist Commission, Arts Mid-Hudson
2021 Rabbit Island Residency, Lake Superior, MI
2016 Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2016 Baer Art Center Artist in Residence, Hofsos, Iceland
2015 Zita Orionis Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2009 MARK 09 Award, New York Foundation for the Arts
2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2004 Frans Masereel Center Artist in Residence, Kasterlee, Belgium
2000 Craft Alliance of New York State Career Development Grant
2000 Frans Masereel Center Artist in Residence, Kasterlee, Belgium
1999 Artist in Residence, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1996 Ucross Foundation Residency, Clearmont, WY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Stream, Site-responsive public art installation, a project of the Art & Culture Program at Albany International Airport | 2022 - 2023
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
2018 Signs of Time | Sager/Braudis Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
2017 Focus: Laura Moriarty | Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2017 Pay Dirt | University Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
2017 Down into the deep | The Aidron Duckworth Art Museum, Meriden, New Hampshire
2017 Moving Mountains | Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University
2016 Laura Moriarty Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York, New York
2015 Tipping Point | Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
2014 Scratched Record | Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
2014 Intimate Monuments | O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, New York
2014 Translating Earth, Transforming Sea | Curated by Andrea Packard, The Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2012 Landslides | James W. Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
2009 Upheaval | ArtSpace, New Haven, Connecticut
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition, Opalka Gallery, Russell Sage College (catalog)
2020 Interpreting the Natural: Contemporary Visions of Scholars’ Rocks | Curated by Donna Dodson, Gallery Korea at the Korean Cultural Center, New York, New York
2020 The Earth Beneath Their Feet | Pamela Salsbury Gallery, Hudson, New York
2019 Materialized | Curated by Suzan Shutan, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2018 SPECTRUM | Co-curated by Kiki Smith and Kate Menconeri, The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York
2018 Organic to Geometric | Curated by Carol Pelletier, Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, Massachusetts
2017 Debtfair (participating artist), a project of Occupy Museums | Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
2017 Still Eden | Curated by Elizabeth Dubbin, Collar Works, Troy, New York
2017 Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition | Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper, Yoshinogawa City, Tokushima, Japan
2016 A Strategraphic Fiction | Curated by Ginny Kollak, 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 | Curated by Anonda Bell, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2014 Shifting Ecologies | The Painting Center, New York, New York
2013 Second Nature | Albany International Airport Gallery, Colonie, New York
2012 Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012 | Curated by Linda Weintraub, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
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, Ohio.
Selected 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
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY