Artist Bio:

Lauren Ward (b.1992, New Mexico) is an artist, mother, advocate, and junior at Brown University. Her work’s been exhibited at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brown University, Harvard University, throughout Chicago, IL and more recently, The Creative Reuse Center of Rhode Island, where she was a Summer 2025 artist in residence. Ward’s other 2025 achievements include receiving second place at Brown’s 45th Annual Student Juried exhibition, receiving the Marlene Malik Sculpture Award, as well as being published in both online and print editions of Vagabond’s Verse Magazine. 

Her artwork is currently on display August 27– September 27, 2025 at Gallery X in New Bedford, MA.

Artist Statement:

I do not see any separation between my life and my art, they are one in the same, inspiring each other. My humorous and poetic titles reveal the mental state in which I make work, allowing the viewer to enter my spiritual process of coping with PTSD and also loving/struggling/morphing through motherhood.

I plan to continue exploring the love tangles and lessons of motherhood, trauma, grief, humor, spirituality, and ritual through the art I make. 

You can find me painting, sewing, washing, mixing, gluing, sticking, ripping, cutting, drawing, rubbing, building, nailing, carrying, welding, collecting, collaging, molding, writing and thinking thinking thinking…….and looking looking looking and praying praying praying and laughing and crying too and taking care of my baby who I love so so much! I also really love dogs, all animals really, but I have a lot of experience with dogs especially.

I hope to empower those who resonate with the stories I tell. Love is everything to me, love is what I believe in. 

“When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold” -Atmosphere

~~Virgo Sun, Cancer Moon, Cancer Rising~~