CV
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