Laura Mosquera

Brooklyn, NY, United States

About Laura Mosquera

Laura Mosquera received her M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She has presented solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum (CASA) in Salamanca Spain, Feigen Contemporary Gallery New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, moniquemeloche gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery and Hall Street Gallery in Savannah, GA. A permanent installation of paintings has been installed at the Archer Heights Branch Library commissioned through City of Chicago Percent for Art Program, and 8 billboards of her paintings continue to be exhibited at the Red Line Subway station at Chicago Ave. and State Street sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the CTA's Adopt a Station Project. She was a part of a traveling group exhibition in Montenegro and Serbia concluding at the National Gallery of Belgrade and was most recently part of a group show at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is in the collections of both the Museum of Contemporary Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and the Contemporary Art Museum (CASA) in Salamanca Spain. She was a Professor of Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design and while there was named an International Council of Fine Arts Deans fellow. She has completed residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; the Hambidge Center in north Georgia and at the Ragdale Foundation. Currently, she is living and working in Brooklyn, NY.

Education:

1999 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, Painting and Drawing
1996 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, Painting and Drawing
1984-87 University of Illinois at Chicago, Architecture Program

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions
2018 Close to the Bone and Skin, Rosefsky Gallery at Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
2017 Flatbed Picture Planes (3 person), Georgia Southern University’s Center for Art & Theatre, Statesboro, GA.
2015 Selected Work, Iloveyoubedford, Brooklyn, NY.
2012 A Visceral Dialogue, ThincSavannah, Savannah, GA.
2010 The Thick Of It, Hall Street Gallery, Savannah, GA.
2007 Another Again, sixspace, Los Angeles, CA.
2006 in the deep end, moniquemeloche Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2005 Beauty In the Breakdown, sixspace, Los Angeles, CA.
2004 Duo, w/ John Sparagana, BRIGHT group, Chicago, IL.
Editor’s Choice, w/ John Sparagana, moniquemeloche Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2003 Someone Like You, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
2002 Another Side Of You, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY.
2001 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
We Know What Makes You Feel Good, moniquemeloche Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Love What You Don’t See, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA.
2000 You Got Your Wish, Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago, IL.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Structural Probability, Greenville Center for Creative Arts, Greenville, SC. (upcoming)
Known Unknowns, 86 Orchard Street, New York,
White On, Alfa Gallery, Miami, FL.
2016 Structural Underpinnings, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia Univ, New York
2015 Homegrown, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2014 Painting Now, Florence Quater Gallery, Southwest University of Visual Arts, Tuczon, AZ
The Last Brucennial, 837 Washington St, New York, NY.
2013 De Madonna a Madonna, DA2, Salamanca Spain, curated by Paco Barragan
2012 Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Painters Painting Paint, Todd Hall Art Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN.
It’s a Small, Small World, Family Business Gallery, New York, NY.
2011 Spectrum, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA.
13th annual SECAC/MACAA member show, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA., curated by Joe Seipel
Why Go Anywhere Else, traveling exhibition. Contemporary Art Centre of Montenegro Podgorica Petrovic Castle; Modern Gallery Budva; Gallery Josip Bepo Benković Herceg Novi; Kod Homena Gallery Kotor; National Gallery Belgrade, Serbia; Vojvodina Contemporary Art Museum Novi Sad; catalog.
Why Go Anywhere Else - drawing exhibition, Velimir Lekovic gallery, Bar, Montenegro.
Selected Works from the MCA Collection: Focus on UBS 12x12, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
Chicago, IL.
2009 ANTIDOTE, Verge Art Fair, Miami, FL.
2007 Year 07 art fair, sixspace, London
Double X: Women Representing Women, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, Birmingham, AL.
Pulse New York art fair, moniquemeloche Gallery
2004 Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
Wonderland, Judy-Ann Goldman gallery, Boston, MA., curated by Edward Saywell
Mental Space, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI., curated by JJ Murphy
2003 The Drawing Show, sixspace gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
LISTE 03 The Young Art Fair, moniquemeloche Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Art Chicago, moniquemeloche Gallery
ARCO up and coming booth, moniquemeloche Gallery, Madrid, Spain curated by Victor Zamudio-Taylor
2002 Stray Show art fair, moniquemeloche Gallery
Torino Art Fair, moniquemeloche Gallery, Torino, Italy
Behavior Patterns, Three Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois curated by John Brunetti
Art Chicago, moniquemeloche Gallery
2001 FFWD: Miami art fair, moniquemeloche Gallery
Slice of Life, DeChiara Gallery, New York, NY.
Mixer, moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago, IL.
Platypus, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY.
Armory Art Fair, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY.
Art Miami art fair, Bodybuilder & Sportsman and monique meloche, Miami, FL.
2000 Figured Out, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY.
A Big Picture Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
POST CRAP with Vito Acconci, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY., curated by Kenny Schachter
1998 Preview Invite: Part 4 Group Show, VANE 98, Newcastle, England
Chicago Artists 98, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL.

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