Laura Spector is a Houston-based artist and art instructor. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is best known for her acclaimed Museum Anatomy project which began in 1996, where she collaborated with museum curators in 16 countries searching for hidden, stolen, lost and destroyed paintings to be reimagined in paint onto the human body. Among Spector’s honors are a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, two Individual Grant Awards from Houston Art Alliance, Sovereign Asian Art Finalist Award, Hong Kong; and Artist-in-residence at AtelierHaus Hilmsen, Hilmsen, Germany. In November 2022, she exhibited (w)Hole, a collective exhibition based on grief, apology, and healing at The Jung Center in Houston, TX. In 2023, Spector was an Artist-in-Residence recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and had a solo exhibition of her work “Personal Stories” as the 10th Anniversary celebration at Georgetown Art Center. She will be exhibited at Jung Center Houston in October 2025, and is currently working on a new leg of her Museum Anatomy project with stolen artwork from the Kherson Museum in Ukraine. In 2025, she became the resident artist at McGovern Medical School in Houston, Texas.