Email: laurendrice@gmail.com
(b. Atlanta, GA 1979)
Lauren Rice is an American artist of Jewish descent based in suburban Richmond, VA. She is a somewhat skeptical astrology nerd with a Pisces rising, Scorpio sun, Taurus moon and a 10th house Sagittarius stellium. Originally from Atlanta, GA, Rice has made her home in many American cities, including Detroit, Brooklyn, Washington DC and Athens, OH. Although she identifies as a painter, Rice often works on and with paper through the combined modalities of collage, painting, drawing and sculpture. She has exhibited her work in solo, collaborative and group exhibitions at venues such as Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space (NYC), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NYC), The Neon Heater (Findlay, OH), ICA Baltimore (Baltimore), 1708 Gallery (Richmond), The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (Virginia Beach), The Alabama Contemporary (Mobile, AL), Transformer (DC) and Spring Break Art Show (NYC), among many others. In 2022, she was a participant in Burnaway Magazine’s Arts Writing Incubator Criticism as Care. She teaches at Longwood University where she is an Associate Professor of Art. Rice lives with her husband and artistic collaborator, Brian Barr, and their two children in a house with a garden on a street surrounded by big, old oak trees. For better or worse, Rice is a wearer of rose-colored glasses and is an avid supporter of underdogs.
