CV 2023
LAURA SPECTOR
512-999-5305, LauraSpector.com
AWARDS AND HONORS
2025 Artist-in-Residence, McGovern Medical Center, Humanities & Ethics Program, Houston, TX
2025 Individual Grant Award, Houston Art Alliance, Houston, TX
2024 Included in Peragrine NASA Lunar Launch with 2 paintings, The Moon
2023 Artist-In-Residence, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2019 HAA Civic Art + Design, Caydon USA, Murals for 2850 Fannin, Houston, TX
2018 Featured Artist, R2: The Rice Literary Review, Houston, TX
2018 Individual Grant Award, Houston Art Alliance, Houston, TX
2016 Artist-In-Residence, AtelierHaus, Hilmsen, Germany
2014 Speaker, The Representational Art Conference (TRAC2014), Ventura, CA
2014 Artist-In-Residence, San Jacinto Community College
2014 Artist-In-Residence, Lonestar-Kingwood Community College
2012 Artist-In Residence, Dallas International School
2011 TEDx DoiSuthep Speaker, Art of Collaboration. Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2000 The New York Foundation for the Arts, Photography Fellowship. NYC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (Selected)
2025 Personal Stories, Jung Center Houston, Houston, TX
2024 Silver Street Studios, Juried Exhibition, Houston, TX
2024 Archway Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Houston, TX
2023 Private Stories, 10th Anniversary Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX, USA
2018 Museum Anatomy, G-Spot Gallery, Houston, TX
2017 Museum Anatomy, Johann-Friedrich-Danniel Museum, Salzwedel, Germany
2016 Museum Anatomy, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2014 Museum Anatomy, Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX, USA
2014 FotoFest, San Jacinto College, Houston, TX, USA
2013 Museum Anatomy, Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX, USA
2012 Museum Anatomy, PrattMWP University Gallery, Utica, NY, USA
2009. Balance In Chaos, Look At This Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2007 Digitized and Mandala paintings, Rockfish Gallery, Phuket, Thailand
2006 Museum Anatomy, (live painting) La Luna Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2006 Museum Anatomy, Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2001 Museum Anatomy, (live painting), 5th Ave. window of Henri Bendel’s, NYC
2001 Museum Anatomy, Westwood Gallery, New York City, USA
1999 Museum Anatomy, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York City
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (Selected)
2022 (w)Hole - The Jung Center, Houston, TX USA
2022 Right Response - Artists Respond to SCOTUS, Hardy & Nance, Houston, TX
2022 Art Immersion -Berlin, Urban Eats, Houston, TX, USA
2020. Painting the Figure Now, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
2020. 12th Annual Juried Competition, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX
2019 11th Annual Juried Competition, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX
2019. Secondary Meanings, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA
2017 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, USA
2017 Month of Photography, RedLine, Denver, CO, USA
2016 ArtPrize, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
2016 On The Creative Path, Harambee Gallery, City Hall, Houston, TX, USA
2016 Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls, Spring Street, Houston, TX, USA
2016 Instructors Show, Glasscock School of Con’t. Studies, Rice University, TX, USA
2014 FotoFest2014, San Jacinto College South, Houston, TX, USA
2013 Gala and Retablo Silent Auction, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, USA
2013 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, USA
2011 About Face: Stories in Portraits, Annmarie Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian), MD
2010 Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
2008 Sovereign Asian Art Award (Short Listed), Sotheby’s Auction House, Hong Kong
2008 Art Singapore, La Luna Gallery, Singapore
2001 NYC/UAE P.O.V., Emirates Towers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2000 Body Art: Marks of Identity, American Museum of Natural History, NYC
OTHER PROJECTS (Selected)
2016 Artists-In-Residence, HilmsenAtelier, Hilmsen, Germany
2014 FotoFest Lecturer, Kingwood College & San Jacinto College, Houston, TX, USA
2014 Panelist (Spector), Individual Grants, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX
2013 Panelist (Spector), Individual Grants, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX
2012 Museum Anatomy Workshop, Dallas International School, Dallas, TX, USA
2011 Artists-in-Residency, Sovereign Art Foundation, artHK11, Hong Kong
2004 Retrospective Lecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Texas Christian U., Ft. Worth, TX
2002 Retrospective Lecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
1998 Retrospective Lecture, Royal College of Art, London
PUBLICATIONS IN MAGAZINES (Selected)
2019 The Variety Issue, PoetsArtists, curated by Judy Takacs
2019 Adorn Me, PoetsArtists, curated by Carol Hodes
2019. R2: Rice Literary Review - Featured Artist
2012 Loerie Awards, Migrate Magazine - Meat Issue, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009 Steiner, Wendy, The Joy of Less, Harvard Design Magazine, June – December
2006 Thomson, Jonathan, Without Borders, Asian Art News, July/August, Int'l.
2000 Museum Anatomy, PDN Magazine (Back Cover Feature), September, Int'l.
1999 Korotkyn, Joyce, Paintings on the Body at Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY Arts
1999 Willis, Jessica, Flesh Tones, Black Book Magazine, Summer
PUBLICATIONS IN BOOKS
2010 Steiner,Wendy, The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art,
University of Chicago Press, USA, Group Publication
2008 Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!, Miles Kelly Publishing, 2008 Edition, Int'l.
PUBLICATIONS ONLINE (Selected)
The Houston Press, NPR Houston Affiliate “Houston Matters”, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post UK (Artist Spotlight), Lost at E Minor, Wooster Collective Blog, Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose, This Is Colossal, MSN, Yahoo News Fast Company, BBC Brazil, La Repubblica, BuzzFeed, George Stroumboulopulus
EDUCATION
FLEMISH CLASSICAL ATELIER - Master class w/ Teresa Oaxaca, Brugge, Belgium 2016
REYNOLDS MATERIALS - Casting and safety workshop 2015
GOLDEN MATERIALS WORKSHOP - Art League Houston 2015
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY 1991-1994
Major in Sculpture; Minor in Art History and Painting.
INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION ASSOCIATES, INC. (IPA) 1994
Apprenticeship in Stage Management for Philip Glass's Opera, La Belle et la Bete, NYC
UC BERKELEY 1996
Honorary Exhibitor, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, curated by L. Rinder.
PUBLICATIONS
Spector, Laura, Beauty Takes Time, presented at The Representational Art Conference 2014 (TRAC2014), Ventura, CA, in conjunction with The Lutheran University, Malibu, CA
