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2026



at the heart of the things. 2026. Oil on canvas, upholstery, thread, couch. Dimension variableSmall tears, cuts, and scribbles. 2026. Installation shot of solo exhibition. Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Dimension variable.at the heart of the things. 2026. Oil on canvas, upholstery, thread, couch. Dimension variable.

she lives in a house of rotting wood. 2026. Wire and wood found at Elizabeth Murray’s farmhouse. 36” x 16”


Small tears, cuts, and scribbles. 2026. Installation shot of solo exhibition. Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Dimension variable.

2025vivisection. 2025. Found couch, cold forged steel. 3' x 14' x 4'


vivisection. 2025. Found couch, cold forged steel. 3' x 14' x 4' vivisection. 2025. Found couch, cold forged steel. 3' x 14' x 4'

vivisection (detail). 2025. Found couch, cold forged steel. 3' x 14' x 4'
 
cesarean codex. Steel. cochineal. fabric. silicone. 24” x 52” x 5”cesarean codex (detail). Steel. cochineal. fabric. silicone. 24” x 52” x 5”criterion velocity. Fabric, fringe, wood, and steel. 8’ x 2’ x 3’. criterion velocity (detail). Fabric, fringe, wood, and steel. 8’ x 2’ x 3’.

2024



a private matter. 2024. Steel, casted aluminum, natural dyed fabric, silicone, zipper. 12” x 12” x 12you want it, you got it. 2024. Steel, cochineal dyed fabric and silicone. 12” x 8” x 3”. hang. 2024. Oil on canvas, fabric, found object, and nails. 2” x 3” x 2”hang. 2024. Oil on canvas, fabric, found object, and nails. 2” x 3” x 2”growth. 2024. Found objects, leather, fabric, and fringe. 24” x 48” x 2”growth (detail). 2024. Found objects, leather, fabric, and fringe. 24” x 48” x 2”

2023




spill. 2023. Oil on muslin, steel, foam, found object. 18' x 5' x 5' linea. 2023. Ceramics (stoneware), tamale wrappers, cayenne, chipotle, and guajillo chiles, found objects. 24” x 75” x 16”bedizen. Acrylic, spray paint on plastic and sheets, foam, found bed frame. 3’ x 30’ x 10’. seep. Oil on canvas, fireplace, mop, nails, spackle. 48” x 36” x 24”.trapped. Oil on bed sheets, found chair, shoes, tamale wrappers, guajillo and cayenne chili powder. 36” x 36” x 48”trapped. Oil on bed sheets, found chair, shoes, tamale wrappers, guajillo and cayenne chili powder. 36” x 36” x 48”

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Lauren Flaaen

laurenflaaen@gmail.com

https://laurenflaaen.cargo.site/



EDUCATION


2025 Yale School of Art, MFA, Painting and Printmaking, New Haven, CT

2022 SAIC, Post-Baccalaureate, Painting and Drawing, Chicago, IL

2007 University of Washington, BA, Chicano Studies, Seattle, WA



SOLO EXHIBITIONS (two person*)


2026 Julius Caesar, Held Together, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)*

2026 Ely Center for Contemporary Art, small tears, cuts and scribbles, New Haven, CT

2025 Roman Susan, to scatter what remains, Chicago, IL



GROUP EXHIBITIONS



2026

63 Audubon, Soft Landing, New Haven, CT


2025

Perrotin, Power Line, New York, NY

The Umbrella, Broken Space, New Haven, CT

The Gallery Upstairs, Glorious Index, New Haven, CT

Yale School of Art, Painting Thesis, New Haven, CT


2024

Yale School of Art, Upward Spiral, New Haven, CT

Metal Museum, F.I.R.E., Memphis, TN

Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, Ven Sin Nombre Latinx Show, New Haven, CT


2023

Yale School of Art, why do I fall out of bed at night?, New Haven, CT

Logan Center, University of Chicago, The Experience, Chicago, IL

Comfort Station, emerge Launch, Chicago, IL


2022

Terrain Exhibits and CNL Projects, Art-in-Place 2022, Chicago, IL

Bard Fisher Arts, First Class, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

Bard Fisher Arts,  Dresser Drawer, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

SAIC 1215, Truly PB Baby, Chicago, IL

SAIC Gallery, Post-Baccalaureate Annual, Chicago, IL


2021

CAPX, SAIC, It’s All Right, Chicago, IL

Stay Home Gallery, Re-Form, Paris, TN

SAIC 1215, 53 Days, Chicago, IL

Maternochronics, Online Exhibit, maternochronic.com


2020

Terrain Exhibits and CNL Projects, Art-in-Place, Chicago, IL,

Woman Made Gallery, Touch, Chicago, IL,

Artist/Mother Podcast Exhibit, Painting at Night, Juried by Allison Reimous, Nashville, TN


2018

Roman Susan Gallery, Firsts and Starts, Chicago, IL

Andersonville Art Week, Chicago, IL,


2014

Friends of Youth, Culturas del Mundo Mural,  Renton, WA

Friends of Youth, Historia, Cultura, y Esperanzas Mural, Collaboration with Urban Artworks, Renton, WA



AWARDS


2024,25 Yale Pathways Teaching Fellowship

2024 FIRE Scholarship (foundry invitational + river exhibition), Metal Museum, Memphis, TN

2024 Yale Pathways Teaching Fellowship

2024 Special Activities Grant, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2023 Richard Welling Scholarship, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2021 Joseph and Emily Gidwitz Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL



RESIDENCIES


2025 Keyhole Workspace Residency, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2025 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Washington County, NY



ARTIST PANELS/ LECTURES


2026 Artist Talk with nico w. okoro, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2026 RISD Fine Art Portfolio Review, RISD, Providence, RI

2026 Alumni Panel Open Studios Speaker/ Guest Critic, Yale School of Art, New

Haven, CT

2025 Power Line Oral Presentation, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2024 Textile Thinking, Whitney Humanities Textile Working Group, Yale School of Art,        

New Haven, CT





PUBLICATIONS


2025 New Haven Arts Paper. New Keyhole Residents Take Up At The Ely Center.  https://www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/articles/new-keyhole-residents-take-up-at-the-ely-center


The Vassar Review, Sense & Splendor, 2022 Issue. https://vassar-review.vassarspaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/VR2022-SenseSplendor.pdf


Emerge Journal at SAIC, Change, 2022 Issue.

https://sites.saic.edu/emerge/change/art/flaaen/




TEACHING EXPERIENCE


2026-27 Adjunct Faculty, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT


2026-27 Adjunct Faculty, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT


2026 Adjunct Faculty,  Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT


2025 Yale Pathway Teaching Fellow, Yale University, New Haven,  CT


2025 Instructor, Textiles in Space, Summer Apprenticeship Program, Ely

Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT


2024 Drawing Advisor, Sketching Yale, Yale School of Art and Haas Library,

New Haven, CT



2022-23 Painting and Drawing Faculty, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL


2023 Teaching Artist, Marwen Arts, Chicago, IL


2021-22 Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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