Lauren Banuvar

Lauren Banuvar’s work explores what shapes us long before we're consciously aware of it - the inherited beliefs, half-remembered stories, and quiet conditioning that sit just below the surface of a moment, just underneath a person's outward identity. Her work often returns to a central question: how do we assign meaning to what we look at, and what have we simply stopped seeing? Through layered, intuitive processes, she builds paintings that hold contradiction without resolving it, treating the canvas as a place where opposing truths can sit side by side rather than compete or cancel each other out.

Lauren believes deeply in art's capacity to heal. She's drawn to how a piece of visual work can reach a viewer faster and more honestly than words - loosening old patterns of thought and making room for something new to take shape in the world of the viewer. Her practice returns again and again to the push and pull between structure and bliss, instinct and order, light and dark, the parts of ourselves we can name and the parts we can only feel - a tension she considers less a problem to solve than a rhythm worth paying attention to.

Her paintings have been featured in Condé Nast's "World of Interiors" and exhibited internationally in ...

STRUCTURE VERSUS BLISS, Milano, Italia. Curator: Stefania Carrozzini, MyMicroGallery, 1-22 March 2025.

MICROCOSMOS OF WONDER, Loverso Studio, Venezia, Italia. Curator: Stefania Carrozzini, MyMicroGallery. 26 October - 9 November 2024.

GÉOGRAPHIE ÉMOTIONNELLE, Espace Syliva Rielle, Paris, France. Curator: Stefania Carrozzini, MyMicroGallery. 8-21 July 2024.

THE HEALING GAZE, Montserrat Contemporary Art, New York, NY. Curator: Stefania Carrozzini, MyMicroGallery. 1-30 May 2024.

7TH BANNER SERIES, CELEBRATING CORONADO ARTISTS. Coronado, CA. Curator: Coronado Cultural Arts Commission. 1 April - 30 June 2023, 1 September - 30 November 2024.

Rossi, Serena. MOSTRA DI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA STRUCTURE VERSUS BLISS DI LAUREN BANUVAR. Il Pensiero Mediterraneo. ilpensieromediterraneo.it

ARTISTIC IMPRESSIONS. Condé Nast: THE WORLD OF INTERIORS. February, 2024. P. 137.