Laura Elkins

Laura Elkins is best known for her self-portraits as First Ladies. Through that work, which she began in 2000, the artist has developed the self-portrait-as into a distinct genre of figure painting that embraces the complexities of contemporary life. By dangling between the images of First Ladies and her own reflection, an inherently performative act of painting, the artist explores the conundrum of America.

2022 It’s a Colorful Life NAWA Flushing Bank Brooklyn NY
2022 Collar Works Flat Files Troy NY
2022 Drawing in All Mediums Site: Brooklyn (Ashton Cooper, curator)
2022 35th Anniversary Exhibition Space One Eleven Birmingham AL
2022 Upstate Art Weekend Open Studios Accord NY
2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition Cooper Gallery University of Dundee
2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge
2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition London
2021 National Association of Women in the Arts 132nd Annual Members Exhibition One Art Space NYC 2021 HEROINEITY: Laura Elkins, Karen Finley, Katya Gokhovsky, Cindy Sherman, Martha Wilson,Suzanne Lacy, Andrea Bowers
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