EDUCATION
2008 MFA, Painting + Drawing, American University, Washington, DC
2002 BA, Studio Art, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Longwood Center for Visual Art, Farmville, VA, SCRAP TIME
2019 Bedford Gallery, Longwood University, Farmville, VA, A formless thought that thinks of you, collaborative solo exhibition with Brian Barr
2018 Current Space, Baltimore, MD, Diaphanous Shades, collaborative solo exhibition with Brian Barr
Neon Heater, Findlay, OH, Heartache and the Thousand Natural Shocks, collaborative solo exhibition with Brian Barr
2017 Box Gallery, Galesburg, IL, Artifactual, two-person exhibition with Allison Reimus
Shockoe Artspace, Richmond, VA, Nothing Beside Remains, collaborative solo exhibition with Brian Barr
2016 Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA, Parts and Wholes
Reuff Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, The Shades of Night are Falling, collaborative solo exhibition with Brian Barr
2015 Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, Former Self and a Bright Future
2014 Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space, Artist Alliance Inc., New York, NY, Data/Transfer/Object, collaborative solo exhibition with Brian Barr
2013 Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC, Fake Empire, collaborative solo exhibition with Brian Barr
Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI, Tools for Better Living
2012 Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, Totems, collaborative solo exhibition with Brian Barr
Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN, Doubleness
Starkweather Gallery, Romeo, MI, Flamboyant Wilderness, collaborative solo exhibition with Brian Barr
2011 Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC, Heirlooms
2010 The South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, Heirlooms
2009 Org Contemporary, Detroit, MI, Vestiges
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Cabin Fever
2023 Maake Projects, State College, PA, Charm Phase: Summer Group Show, curated by Emily Carol Burns
Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL, Drawing in Space
Janice Charach Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI, 18, curated by Rebecca Reeder and Natalie Balazovich
2022 The GWU/Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC, Transformer20, curated by Georgie Payne and Victoria Reis, Transformer Gallery
Flat Rate Contemporary, FRC 14, https://flatratecontemporary.com
2021 Art Enables, Washington, DC, Mystery Quilt, curated by Marissa Long
Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY, Flat File Exhibition 2021-22
Bedford Gallery, Longwood University, Farmville, VA, Somewhere In-Between:
Curiosity, Inquiry and Research
2020 Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN, Painting at Night, organized by Artist Mother Podcast and juried by Allison Reimus
Once Together, online exhibition, a global curated project organized by Ina Kaur
2019 Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA, Present Continuous
Current Art Fair, with Shockoe Artspace, Richmond, VA
Be.Long.Ing, online exhibition organized by I Like Your Work Podcast
The Magenta Suite, Exeter, NH, Tin Ceilings and Other Specifics
2018 Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY, 2017-2018 Flat File Exhibition Closing Reception
New Waves 2018, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
FlatFile, Art on Paper, housed inside Ampers& Design Studio, Montclair, NJ, Inaugural Exhibition
2017 Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, New York, NY, 2017-2018 Flat File Exhibition
Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI, To the End of the Earth
Current Art Fair, with Shockoe Artspace, Richmond, VA
King Street Gallery, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD, AC/BC
Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH, Love Library: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, organized by Chido Johnson, traveling exhibition
2015 Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY, Trash 4 Gold, curated by Jordan Buschur and Jac Lahav
Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA, The Soul and the Pawnshop
Logan Fringe Art Space, Washington, DC, Transformer Flat File Artists
2014 PASSENGER, Detroit, MI, Abstracticus
Baltimore Alternative Art Fair, Baltimore, MD (with Transformer Gallery)
Mid-Atlantic Print Council, Print City Detroit, Detroit, MI, Niche
Project 4, Washington, DC, Centerfold Artist
Greer Museum, Rio Grande, OH, Ohio University Painting and Drawing Faculty
Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH, 2014 Ohio University School of Art Faculty Exhibition
Majestic Galleries, Nelsonville, OH, Re/Quest
2013 Dock 5, Washington, DC, Thread (with Transformer Gallery)
(e)merge art fair, with Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
Biers Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Love Library: Let’sTalk About Love, Baby, organized by Chido Johnson, traveling exhibition
Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Off the Wall
Printed Matter, New York, NY, Love Library: Let’s Talk About Love,Baby, organized by Chido Johnson, traveling exhibition
iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN, Love Library: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, organized by Chido Johnson, traveling exhibition
BUTTER Projects, Royal Oak, MI, I Like You and I Together, curated byAlison Wong
Northend Studios, Detroit, MI, BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)
Liminal Art Space, Roanoke, VA, Girl’s Club
2012 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, Residency Project
Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI, Lost and Found: Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Pictures
Heistand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2012 Young Painter’s Competition
The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, Love Library: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, organized by Chido Johnson, traveling exhibition
Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa, ¡ALPTRAUM!, traveling to: Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila, Philippines: April 4-24, 2012
MOCAD, Detroit, MI, Love Library: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, organized by Chido Johnson, traveling exhibition
2011 Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, Vox VII
Samson Projects, Boston, MA, Chain Letter
The Butcher’s Daughter, Ferndale, MI, Back Room (three-person exhibition with Curtis McGuire and Hamilton Poe)
Reuff Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, DETROIT MUSCLE: New Aesthetic Trends From the Motor City Northend Studios, Detroit, MI, Art X Detroit: Works on Paper
The Cell Project Space, London, England, ¡ALPTRAUM!
Traveling to:
Deutscher Kuenstlerbund, Berlin, Germany: March 11 - April 15, 2011, The Company, Los Angeles, US: May 1 - May 30, 2011,
blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa: August 3 - 27, 2011
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, Love Library: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, organized by Chido Johnson, traveling exhibition
The Butcher’s Daughter, Ferndale, MI, Who Dares Wins
Valede Family Gallery, Detroit, MI, Multiple Personalities: CCS Faculty Now
2010 Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC, Art on Paper Biennial, Transformer. Washington, DC, ¡ALPTRAUM! (traveling exhibition)
2739 Edwin, Hamtramck, MI, Swim Lane (four-person exhibition with Ian Swanson, George Rahme and Graem Whyte)
The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Love Library: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, organized by Chido Johnson, traveling exhibition
Katzen Museum of Art, Washington, DC, ReVisions University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, Great Lakes Drawing Biennial
Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Work/Wassaic Benefit
2009 X-initiative, New York, NY, No Soul for Sale (with Transformer Gallery)
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, The Grand Bazaar
Metro Pictures, New York, NY, Postcards from the Edge
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, Lotta Art
555 Gallery, Detroit, MI, The Five Senses
2008 Transformer Gallery and Heineman Myers Contemporary Art, Washington, DC, Paper Trail
The Bobby Fisher Memorial Building, Washington, DC, Girlish Ways: The Next Generation of Female Artists
Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX, Works on Paper
College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, Small Works Civilian Art Center, Washington, DC, Quart Bag Katzen Art Museum, Washington, DC, Proximity
Nance Street Studios, Houston, TX, Experimental Drawing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TEACHING:
2020-present
Longwood University, Farmville, VA, Associate Professor of Painting and New Media
2014-2020
Longwood University, Farmville, VA, Assistant Professor of Painting and New Media
2011-2014
Ohio University, Athens, OH, Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
2010-2011
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, Adjunct Professor
2008-2011
The College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, Adjunct Professor
CURATORIAL + WRITING:
2024 Co-creator + co-curator of Take the Mantle, Midlothian, VA (forthcoming Fall 2024)
2023 Contributor, Art Habit
2022 Participant, 2022 Arts Writing Incubator, Criticism as Care, Burnaway Magazine
2021-present Writing and curating on Instagram as @tools_for_better_living
2014 Katzen Museum, Washington, DC, Ad Infinitum, with Clifford Borress, Ian Pedigo, Letha Wilson
2013 Delicious Spectacle, Washington, DC, No Longer Presidents but Prophets, with Katie Bell, Julia Bland, Matthew Craven, Estaban Garcia, Jesse Harrod, Laith Karmo, Lorri Ott, Graem Whyte
2010-2014 Contributor, The Studio Visit, thestudiovisit.com
JUROR:
2017 Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA, Annual National Juried Art Exhibition
2013 Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, MI, 2013 All Media Juried Exhibition
ARTIST LECTURES/PANELS:
2021 Panelist, Mystery Quilt Virtual Talk and Workshop, Art Enables
Virtual Artist Talk, LCVA, Scrap Time
2020 Panel Discussion with Artist Mother Podcast; Kaylan Buteyn in conversation with Lauren Rice, Danila Rumold and Annie Hodgin
2015 Virtual Artist Talk, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Artist Talk, American University, Washington, DC, Fall Visiting Artist Program
2013 Artist in Residence Artist Talk, The Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
Artist Talk, Tools for Better Living, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
Artist Talk, Fake Empire, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
2012 Artist Talk, American University, Washington, DC
2011 Artist Talk, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Artist Talk, Heirlooms, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
MEDIA
2023
New American Paintings, No. 166, South Issue
2022
Southeast Review, Vol. 40.2, Featured Artist
Art in Square Magazine, Issue 02, Featured Artist
Flat Rate Contemporary Exhibition essay, Departure from Medium by Til Will
2021
Vast Magazine, Issue 02, Featured Artist
2020
Painting at Night, An Artist/Mother Podcast Exhibition, juried by Allison Reimus by Robert R. Shane, The Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2020/07/artseen/Painting-at-Night
Curated Studio Visit with Deanna Evans Projects https://www.deannaevansprojects.com/curated-studio-visits
2019
Featured Artist, A5 Magazine, May Issue #26
2018
Bmoreart’s Picks: Baltimore Art Openings, Galleries, and Events July 3-9, bmoreart.com
Reader’s Choice Awards, Best New Art Gallery, (Featured with Shockoe Art Space), Style Weekly
2017
To the End of the Earth at Detroit Artists Market, Detroit Art Review
2016
Mist Gallery, featured artist
2015
New American Painting, No. 118
Maake Magazine, featured artist and interview
2014
Featured Artist, Submission Friday, SFMOMA Tumblr
Featured Artist, PEEK
FORGETGOODzine, Issue 15, featured artist
Fake Empire, by Kriston Capps, Washington City Paper
2013
500 Paper Objects, Lark Crafts, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., selections made by Gene McHugh, Interpretation Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art
Featured Artist, Field Projects Tumblr
Trop Magazine, Centerfold Artist, Miss July
Lauren Rice’s “Tools for Better Living” opens at Popps Packing, Knight Arts
Fake Empire, Washington City Paper, by Kriston Capps
Makin’ Art Babies: Review of ‘I Like You and I Together” at Butter Projects, Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk
‘The Next Wave’ and ‘No Longer Presidents But Prophets’, Washington City Paper, by Kriston Capps
The Artober Crawl Celebrates Creativity in Nashville, The Nashville Scene, by Joe Nolan
2012
Conversations with Kala Art Institute Fellows Part 2, SFAQ International Arts and Culture, Gregory Ito
Found: Compelling New Art Center in Detroit (Introduction to Passenger), The Huffington Post, by Colin Darke
The Post-Apocalyptic Worlds of Alison O.K. Frost, Vanessa Marsh, and Francesca Pastine, The East Bay Express, by Alex Bigman
Lost and Found: Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Pictures, The Metro Times
Kala Art Institute, Residency Project, Berkeley Times
Photo Feature: Kala Art Institute, Oakland Art Enthusiast
2011
New American Painting, No. 95
Galleries: ‘Heirlooms’ at Transformer, ‘Bound’ at Hamiltonian, by Kriston Capps, The Washington Post
Heart of the City, Dateline Detroit
‘Harbinger’ Provides a Refreshing Vantage Point, by V. Miller, Knight Arts
Heirlooms: Not Your Grandmother’s Garden, by Heather McCaw, The Pink Line Project TBD Picks: ‘930 F Street,’ Gang of Four, ‘Heirlooms’, by Maura Judkis
BYT: Year in Art: Lauren Rice’s Heirlooms at Transformer, by Julia Benton, Brightest Young Things
Next at Transformer: Lauren Rice’s Heirlooms, by Benjamin R. Freed, Washington City Paper
Considering the Emerging Artist, by Cedric Tai, The Detroiter
2010
SBMA installs grottos, “awkward garden”, by Jordan Gamble, The South Bend Tribune
With Color or Not, org Puts on Strong Shows, by Cedric Tai, The Detroiter Interview with Lauren Rice, Perfect Laughter: Art/Design Detroit Between a Blog and a Hard Place, Art-Sight, by Vagner Whitehead
Org Contemporary Gallery takes up residence at Russell Industrial, by Kelli B. Kavanaugh, Model D
2008
The House That Borf Built is Closing, by Kriston Capps, The DCist Thinking About Art: Who’s Who in the DC Art World, by JT Kirkland Girlish Ways: Final Show at Bobby Fisher Memorial, 88 Culture
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 Flat File Artist, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
2021 Flat File Artist, Collar Works, Troy NY, curated by Jess Canon of Far x Wide
Flat File Artist, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Flat File Artist, ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Artist Residency in Motherhood, Richmond, VA
2019 Faculty Research Grant, Longwood University
Flat File Artist, ArtFile, Montclair, NJ
2017 Flat File Artist, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY
2016 Residency in Motherhood, Richmond, VA
2015 Faculty Research Grant, Longwood University
2013 Faculty Professional Development Grant, Ohio University
The Luminary, St. Louis, MO, Residency and stipend
Shortlist, 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames and Hudson Publishers, edited by Kurt Beers
Semi-finalist, FEED Biennial, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, juried by Corin Hewitt and Sarah Eckhardt
2012 Finalist for Miami University’s Young Painter’s Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2011 Kala Art Institute, Fellowship Residency Award, Berkeley, CA Faculty Professional Development Grant, Ohio University
2008-2016 Flat File Artist, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
2008 Mellon Research Grant, American University, Washington, DC
2006-2008 Merit Scholarship, American University, Washington, DC