Laurie Halsey Brown

Laurie Halsey Brown is the Director/Founder of senseofplace LAB. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1990. After which, she lived in New York City for ten years before moving to Rotterdam, the Netherlands for five years. She has lived in San Francisco since 2007.

A large scale interdisciplinary piece based on her residency in the World Trade Center was shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC in 2001, and her work afterwards has been shown nationally in places such as Exit Art, White Columns and internationally, including creating several large interdisciplinary art projects funded by the Dutch and British government. She has also had video work shown internationally in such venues as the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

She was one of ten finalists for a 2012 Masterminds Grant from SF Weekly: Honoring the Bay Area's Most Inventive Artists. Her photographs were in an 2011-2012 exhibition in the Bay Area juried by Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Drew Johnson, Curator of Photography at the Oakland Museum of California - and won a Jurors Choice Award. She is also included in the 2011-2012 exhibition Before the Fall at the New ...

Masters of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Corcoran School of Art Washington, DC

2016
Hayes Valley Art Works San Francisco, CA Interactive temporary public project
Parking Lot Art Fair San Francisco, CA Interactive temporary public project

2015
Surplus Space Portland, Oregon a commemoration in several parts: an investigation of our relationship to a place (Surplus)
Solo project (with collaborators Eric Nielson, Gabe Flores and Michelle Wood)
Markings (Dear Developer) Large scale public art project installed for 3 months at the 16thMission BART plaza, San Francisco, CA
Made possible by a ‘Caltrans Environmental Justice: Context Sensitive Design Program’ grant
Market Street Prototyping Festival Portal Exchange: Public engagement installation on Market St, San Francisco, CA
In collaboration with Gensler Architects
AIA San Francisco Presentation as part of Placemaking conference
Focal Point Gallery, London UK ‘Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery’. Radial Shadow gifs
stART-up Art Fair, San Francisco, CA with ASC Projects senseofplace LAB boutique. Photo installation
Cities+Schools, Berkeley, CA Guest panelist for a student presentation

2014
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA Placed/Displaced exhibition. breathing in place: 3 part engagement installation
SOMArts, San Francis...