BORN

1975 Baltimore, MD

EXHIBITIONS

2007 “Homage to Domestic Familiarity” Houston, TX

Anya Tish Gallery

2006 “Collect Them All! Soft Brown Narratives” Houston, TX

Lawndale Art Center

2006 “Drawing Between the Lines” Houston, TX

Lawndale Art Center

2006 “Redefinition” Houston,TX

Ensemble Theater Gallery

2005 “Do-It-Yourself Art Fair”

The Casket Factory Dallas, TX

2005 “Art Crawl 2005”

Mother Dog Studios Houston, TX

2004 “Project Row Houses, Round 21 ½ “

Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

2003 “Telling Our Story: The Art of YBW”

Prairie State Collage Chicago Heights, IL

2002 “We Tell Tales”

Gallery 902 Chicago, IL

2002 “Burnt, Fried, Pulled, Curled”, curated by Dawoud Bey

Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, IL

2001 “YBW, Young Black Women”

Frick Lounge Gallery, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL

2001 “Wig Works”

Diverse Works, Houston, TX

2000 “Project Row Houses, Round 12”

Project Row Houses(PRH) Houston, TX

1999 “MFA Thesis Exhibition”

847 West Jackson Gallery, SAIC Chicago, IL

1999 “HSPVA Alumni Exhibition”

Transco Tower Lobby, Houston, TX

1999 “The Glam Salon”

Student Union Gallery, SAIC Chicago, IL

1996 “Public Opinion”

Lawndale Performing Arts Center, Houston, TX

1996 All Sizes Real People”

MECA and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston, TX

HONORS AND AWARDS

2007 Core Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) Houston, TX

2004 Outstanding Art Faculty Member,

Prairie View A and M University (PVAMU) Prairie View, TX

2002 Interdisciplinary Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council Chicago, IL

1999 MFA Fellowship, (SAIC) Chicago, IL

1997 Trustee Fellowship, Masters of Painting Program (SAIC) Chicago, IL

1993 Meyerhoff Merit Scholarship (MICA) Baltimore, MD

RESIDENCIES

2005 Diverseworks/Creative Capital Artists Retreat Houston, TX

2007 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Skowhegan, ME

2007 Glassel School of Art, Core Program, (MFAH) Houston, TX

COLLECTIONS

African American Museum, Fair Park/Dallas, Texas

Harmon and Harriett Kelley, San Antonio, Texas

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Goldsmith, Meredith, “Lauren Kelley: Collect Them All Soft Brown Narratives;

Houston” Artlies Issue 53, Fall 2006

French, Christopher, “Lauren Kelley: Collect Them All! Soft Brown Narratives;

Impossible Exchange: New Lens Based Work From Texas Lawndale Art Center September- October 2006” Glass Tire: Texas Visual Arts Online

Davenport, Bill, “Barbie she’s not: Big Gurl offers an unconventional look at the woes of

young, beautiful black women” Houston Chronicle October 1, 2006

Klassmeyer, Kelly, “Girl Talk , Barbies and breakups take over Lawndale, with mixed

results” Houston Press September 1, 2006

White, Michelle, “ Finding New Voices in TX: Tackling Gender/ Politics in Houston:

Angela Fraleigh, Lauren Kelley and Laura Lark” Glass Tire: Texas Visual Arts

Online December 9, 2005

Rogers, Kristina, “2004 Purple and Gold Strokes: An Art Exhibit On Campus” Panther

February 15, 2004

Wolmack, Yetasha, “Odditorium: Poet Brings Freak to Light” Chicago Defender

November 28, 2001

Davenport, Bill, “Lauren Kelley at Diverse works” Glass Tire: Texas Visual Arts Online

June 5, 2001

Klassmeyer, Kelly, “ Home Improvements” Houston Press May 4, 2000

LECTURES

“Slide Jam” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, April 12, 2007

“Contemporary Women Artists: From the Feminist Movement to the Present” (Guest lecturer) Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts,

Dec 2, 2005

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2007 “Ricardo Francis: A Search for Self A Search for Meaning”