Laura Hughes

Laura Hughes is a visual artist creating site-specific installations that investigate how light, form and space surround and shape one another in our perceptions. Often directly responding to the given features of a space using light, paint, and reflective surfaces, her work amplifies and enhances fleeting instances of illumination that are usually overlooked.

Currently based in Portland, Oregon, Hughes received a 2012 Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, was a finalist for the 2013 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards from the Portland Art Museum, and was nominated for the Brink Award from the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle in 2011. She has been awarded multiple grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She received an MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR) and a BFA in Drawing from the Alberta College of Art & Design (Calgary, AB).

Hughes has recently exhibited at the 10th Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA), LxWxH (Seattle, WA), Disjecta (Portland, OR), White Box University of Oregon (Portland, OR), Archer Gallery at Clark College (Vancouver, WA), Gall...

MFA Visual Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art, 2010
BFA with Distinction, Drawing, Alberta College of Art & Design, 1997

Solo Exhibitions
The Limitations We Must Suppose Away, PDX Contemporary Window Project, Portland, OR, 2014
Passage, (Public art project), Marylhurst University, Portland, OR, 2013-2014
Light Box, White Box Gallery, University of Oregon, Portland, OR, 2012
Across The Way, Vehicle at Pioneer Place, Portland, OR, 2011
Relative Ground, Portland State University Dept of Architecture, 2010
The Span of An Instant, Appendix Project Space, Portland, OR, 2010
Passed Presence, The Portland Building Installation Space, Portland, OR, 2010
Through A Future Invisible, The Someday Lounge, Portland, OR, 2010
Fixed Distance, MFA Gallery Central, PNCA, Portland, OR, 2009

Selected Group Exhibitions

The City + The City, LxWxH, Seattle, WA, 2013
The Lathe of Heaven, Disjecta, Portland, OR, 2012
Trust, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 2012
The Infectious Corruption of Color, Archer Gallery, Vancouver, WA, 2012
10th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma, WA, 2012
PNCA Faculty Biennial, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 2011
Body Of Knowledge: Vision, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR, 2011
On&On&On, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR, 2011
The World is Not Ending, Your World is Ending, Gallery Homeland,...