Lauren Denitzio (1983) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work encompasses drawing, painting, and mixed media as well as site-specific text works and collaborative projects. Their practice addresses the visual examination, representation and re-imagining of private spaces as they are constructed and oriented to reflect one's embodied identity. Denitzio received their BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 and is currently pursuing an MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons the New School for Design.
Their work has been exhibited at Recession Art Culturefix (NY), Storefront (NY), Rush Arts Gallery (NY) and Wayfarers (NY) as well as a recent solo show at Gallery 5 (VA). Denitzio is a founding member of For The Birds, a New York based feminist collective dedicated to challenging social inequality through DIY feminist cultural activism. Their writing and visual work has appeared in Sick Zine, International Girl Gang Underground, Hoax and RE/VISIONIST. Interviews on various aspects of their practice have been featured in AMP Magazine, Bitch Magazine, MSNBC.com, Alternative Press and FRHC: Creative Fuel. Denitzio lives and works in Brooklyn.
email: studio [at] laurendenitzio.com
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EDUCATION
2013 Parsons The New School for Design – MFA Fine Arts Candidate
2006 Rhode Island School of Design – BFA Illustration
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Yonic – 25 East Gallery, Parsons – New York, NY
How Much Art Can You Take? – VLHS – Pomona, CA
Multiples – Bluestockings – New York, NY
2012
Eloquent Delinquents – 25 East Gallery, Parsons – New York, NY
The Fest 11 – Plus+ Gallery – Gainesville, FL
Affecting Space – Gallery 5 – Richmond, VA (solo exhibition)
BRAIN WAVES – Recession Art Culturefix – New York, NY
Global Projects – Broadway Gallery – New York, NY
I Choo Choo Choose You – Wayfarers – Brooklyn, NY
The Cabaret of Failure – Wollman Hall, Parsons The New School for Design – New York, NY
2011
CurateNYC Postcard Show – Rush Arts Gallery – New York, NY
Oversensitive – 25 East Gallery, Parsons – New York, NY
The Fest 10 – Plus+ Gallery – Gainesville, FL
Into the Neon (zine station) – Chashama Chelsea Project Space – New York, NY
Brainwaves – Storefront Gallery – Brooklyn, NY
2010
The Fest 9 – Plus+ Gallery and Top Secret Space – Gainesville, FL
Self Titled – Gallery 5 – Richmond, VA
Welcome to Nutellaville – Little Skips – Brooklyn, NY
Rad Fest – Bottega Gallery – Wilmington, NC
Hardcore Punktuation – The Loft – New Brunswick, NJ
2009
C’est La Vie – C–Squat – New York, NY
Richmond Zine Fest Illustration Show – Gallery 5 – Richmond, VA
The Fest 8 – The Fest 8 – Gainesville, FL
Leave Home – Death by Audio – Brooklyn, NY
2008
Paper + Plastick at the Fest 7 – Store 101 – Gainesville, FL
The Big SheBang III – ABC No Rio – New York, NY
Rockers and Posers – Brooklyn Artists Gym – Brooklyn, NY
Clothesline Show – ABC No Rio – New York, NY
AWARDS
Oscar Kolin MFA Fellowship – Parsons The New School for Design (2012-2013)
Graduate Dean’s Scholarship – Parsons The New School for Design (2011-2013)
RESIDENCIES
December 2013 (upcoming) – Institute Fur Alles Mogliche – Berlin
September 2013 (upcoming) – SiM, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists – Reykjavik
March 2011 – AS220 – Providence, RI
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Question For Revolution And Universal Brotherhood – Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries The New School, New York, NY (September 2012)
A multimedia exhibition and collaborative artistic and curatorial project, co-curated with Jessica Posner and Isaac Richard Pool, deploying radical and feminist tactics across history, mythology, representation and presence. The exhibition included a collaborative mural installation and performance series.
Are You With The Band? – Paper + Plastick Records (October 2011)
Curation and design for the 12” vinyl music compilation of female-fronted bands accompanied by a printed booklet illustrated by related women artists
Big Mouth – Brooklyn Fireproof – Brooklyn, NY (August 2011)
co-curated with Kate Wadkins
Contemporary feminist voices in art and illustration – co-curated with Kate Wadkins featuring works by Suzy Exposito, Molly Fair, Kim Funk, Kathleen Hanna, J. Morrison, Adee Roberson and Gabby Schulz.
The Big SheBang V – The Church of the Messiah – Brooklyn, NY (August 2010)
Works on paper by women artists Michaela Zacchili, Xander Marro, Beth Slutzky, Patty Bowman, Meg Turner
Leave Home – Death by Audio – Brooklyn, NY (May 2009)
co-curated with Kate Wadkins
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
For The Birds Collective – Founding Member and Organizer (May 2008 - present)
Founding member and organizer of a collective that focuses on establishing alternative spaces that promote the creative interests of women – duties include organizing events, tabling at events, administrative work and blogging about feminist visual response in radical and resistance movements.
EVENTS
International Gender Design Network Founding Conference: Gender Play (March 2013)
Presentation on the collaborative curatorial project Question for Revolution and Universal Brotherhood
with Isaac Richard Pool and Jessica Posner
Winging It: Nurturing Authentic Communication in Feminist Organizing (July 2012)
Workshop at C.L.I.T Fest 2012 with the For The Birds Collective – New Brunswick, NJ
Visiting Artist Lecture – Hunter College BFA Fine Arts (May 2012)
Focus & Motivation: MFA Artists Presenting Their Art (April 2012)
Supporting the Scene: Creating and Curating A Feminist Safer Space (March 2012)
Panel at Sarah Lawrence College Women’s History Conference 2012 with the For The Birds Collective - Bronxville, NY
Cabaret of Failure (February 2012)
Performance event presented by Reena Katz, Shana Agid and The New Division: Empathic Department for Sound and Architecture at Wollman Hall, The New School – New York, NY
Ask Me, I Will Tell (January 2011)
Panel at the Women’s Caucus for Art at the CAA Annual Conference - New York, NY
Representing the For the Birds Collective
Thanks to Indexhibit.