LAUREN B. WARD
b. 1992 Santa Fe, New Mexico. Lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island
EDUCATION
2023 – Current A.B. Visual Arts Honors | Brown University | Providence, RI
2021 – 2023 Psychology & Nursing | Santa Fe Community College | Santa Fe, NM
2012 – 2017 BFA (incomplete) | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, Il
2011 Painting Intensive | Pacific Northwest College of Art | Portland, OR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Blessed Mama | List Art Center | Brown University | Providence, RI
2015 What are you doing Wednesday | Red Kiva Gallery | Chicago, IL
Peace be with the spirits of the night | 1629 Kimball Ave | Chicago, IL
Tug of War | Eely’s Gallery | Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Second Stories: Barbara Grandis Artist in Residency Exhibition |
Creative Reuse Center of Rhode Island | East Providence, RI
Here Always: A Queer Art Show | Outsider Collective | Pawtucket, RI
Boston-Wide Art Gallery | Harvard University | Boston, MA
Dear Survivor | Sexual Assault Awareness Month Art Exhibition |
Sojourner House | Providence, RI
It’s Still Life | Drawing Class Exhibition | Brown University | List Art
Center | Providence, RI
Brown University 45th Annual Student Exhibition | Curated by Abdu
Ali & Falaks Vasa | Granoff Center for the Creative Arts | Providence, RI
Psychic Smorgasbord | Sculpture Class Exhibition | Brown University | List Art Center | Providence, RI
2024 (Re)Group | Brown University Spring Festival of Dance | Ashamu Dance Studio | Providence, RI
2016 Loves Lost | Flat Iron Gallery | Chicago, IL
2015 Do it yourself | Sass House | Chicago, IL
Hell House | Sass House | Chicago, IL
2014 Whore dialogue | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Summer
Performance Festival | Chicago, IL
2013 Art Bash | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Student Gallery |
Chicago, IL
Chew on it | Defibrillator Gallery | Chicago, IL
AWARDS | RESIDENCIES
2025 Barbara Grandis Artist Residency | Creative Reuse Center of Rhode
Island | East Providence, RI
Second Place Winner | Brown University 45th Annual Student
Exhibition | Providence, RI
Marlene Malik Sculpture Award | Materials Grant | Brown
University | Providence, RI
2021 – 2023 Presidential Scholar | Santa Fe Community College | Santa Fe, NM
2012 – 2017 Distinguished Merit Scholar | School of the Art Institute | Chicago, IL
2011 Presidential Scholar | Pacific Northwest College of Art | Portland, OR
PRESS
2025 (upcoming) Ward, Lauren | I really hope they don’t take away our
Medicaid | The Vagabond’s Verse | Summer Issue (printed magazine)
(upcoming) Ward, Lauren | doubtless from the sea | The Vagabond’s
Verse | Weekly Verse (online publication)
Haruta, Devaney | Ward, Lauren | Circle of Life, Circle of Love | Piano
(de)composition (March 2025)
Shi, Summer | 45th Annual Student Exhibition showcases bold,
experimental works in Granoff Center | The Brown Daily Herald (March
2025)
2024 Nesmith, Naomi | I’m Not Going To Lower My Expectations | The Indy
(October 2024)
2023 Everly, Laura | Empowering Single Mothers Through Education |
Working Nation (September 2023)
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2025 Digital Media Studio Monitor | Brown University | Providence, RI
Departmental Undergraduate Group Leader | Visual Arts | Brown
University | Providence, RI
Sexual Assault Prevention Education Coordinator | Brown
University | Providence, RI
Survivor Advocacy Reflector | Braver Collective (online community
resource)
Student-Parent Advocate | SPAA 2024-25 Cohort | 15th Annual
Generation Hope Conference | Washington, D.C.
2024 Brown Art Review Winter Art Fair Contributor | Brown University |
Providence, RI
2023 – 2025 Sexual Assault Prevention Education Facilitator | Brown
University | Providence, RI
2015 – 2016 Art Teacher | Youth Service Project Summer Program | Chicago, IL
2007 – 2012 Tilesetting | Sean Ward Tile Work | Portland, OR