Lauren Noelle Oliver
is a New York City-based multidisciplinary artist who uses photography, filmmaking and performance to explore her multicultural identity. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from SUNY Purchase. Her photographs have been featured on i-D, Buzzfeed, F-stop Magazine, and The Luupe. Her first monograph, “Temple of the Self”, published by Monolith Editions in 2020, is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lauren works between the Gowanus Community Darkroom and Mono no Aware where she teaches and helps coordinate educational programming.
Education
2020 ICP Community Fellowship, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2014 Summa Cum Laude Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Exhibitions/ Screenings
2023 Works on Paper (online fundraiser and exhibition for Pocoapoco)
2023 Mono No Aware Artist Screening and talkback, Emerson College, Boston, MA
2023 The Art of Handmade Photography, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT, May 5-July 2
2023 Alternative Cinema: Selected films from MONO XVI Festival of Cinema Arts (film screening and discussion with Steve Cossman)
2023 Visual Studies Workshop Spring Salon
2022 Mono No Aware XVI Cinema Arts Festival
2020 FOGO!, SoMad Studio, New York, NY, October 12-November 12
BACKTALK, Photo-emphasis website, August 3
We Live in Real Time: Mail Art Made During the Pandemic, Printed Matter St Marks, New York, NY, July 23- October 20
2019 Living Image, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA, December 7- January 26
2019 Movement:Pangea, Hudson Guild, New York, NY, June 2
2018 Mono no Aware Film Screening, Center for Performance Research, New York, July 8
Island People Recovery Benefit, Hudson Guild, New York, NY, May 19
New Steps Choreographer Series, Chen Dance Center, New York, NY, April 19-21
MONO SELECTS, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY April 18
Existence Articles, Buhroke Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, February 24
2017 Women’s Work, The Yards Collective, Rochester, New York, March 10-12
Mono no Aware Film Screening, Center for Performance Research, New York, November 19
2016 Best Friends Forever, Junior High, Los Angeles, California, October 7-21
Not for Sale newsstand, Art Slope, Brooklyn, New York, September 17-25
2014 Senior Photography Exhibition, SUNY Purchase Visual Arts Building, Purchase, New York, April 18-26
SUNY Student Art Best of Show, New York State Museum, Albany, New York, June 10-17
2013 BFA Show, SUNY Purchase Visual Arts Building, Purchase, New York, Sep 25- Oct 9
Millenials, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, New York, July 9 - 12
2012 Junior Photography Exhibition, SUNY Purchase Visual Arts Building, Purchase, NY, Nov 7 - 19
Awards and Residencies
2023 Lucie Award Finalist for Photo Program of the Year
2023 MudHouse Residency (Fellowship Recipient), Crete, Greece
2023 Soho House Fellowship, Ludlow House, New York
2022 Independent Study, Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, Mexico
2018 New Steps Choreographer Series, Chen Dance Center, New York
2013 Excellence in Photography, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, New York
Publications and Press
The Colgate Maroon-News: “Colgate Hosts Selected Films From MONO XVI Festival of Cinema Arts,” Sahaj Jhajharia, March 2023
F-stop Photography Magazine: Featured Artist Interview with Lauren Noelle Oliver - Temple of the Self, Christy Karpinski, April 2020
Buzzfeed: “8 Print Sales To Buy Photos From This Holiday Season,” Pia Peterson, December 2020
The Luupe : “Women*-Made Photobooks of 2020 That Will Shift Your Worldview,” Luupe Editors, December 2020
THREE: Limited Edition, Published by Radius Books, 2020
“Temple of the Self", artist monograph with text by Cailey Rizzo, Published by Monolith Editions, 2020
Tart: “Does that all make sense?" by Cailey Rizzo, April 2020
“Living Image,” exhibition catalogue with text by juror Kris Graves, Published by The Halide Project, 2019, p.30-31
“Tart Issue 1,” Published by Tart, 2019, p.9-11
“#girlgaze How Girls See the World,” Published by Rizzoli, 2017, p. 76, p.136
i-D : “6 photographers changing the body conversation on instagram,” by Blair Cannon, June 2016
Aint-Bad: “Catechism,” by Anna Brody, September 2016
“Catechism,” Self-published, 2014
Speaking Engagements
2023 Alternative Cinema: Selected films from MONO XVI Festival of Cinema Arts (film screening and discussion with Steve Cossman)
2023 ICP at THE POINT (artist talk and darkroom demo)
2022 Smith College (artist talk)
2021 Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia (virtual artist talk)
2020 Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon (virtual artist talk with Kris Graves)
2020 ICP at The Point, New York (artist talk)
2018 Magnum Foundation, New York (panel)
2017 High School of Fashion Industries (panel)
Teaching
2024 Photography I in Black-and-White: Camera and Darkroom, International Center of Photography, New York
2023 Muybridge Motion Studies, Mono no Aware, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Introduction to Alternative Processes, Gowanus Darkroom, Brooklyn, New York
2023 World Cyanotype Day, Gowanus Darkroom, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Moving Image Cyanotypes, Mono no Aware, Brooklyn, New York
2023 35mm Phytograms, Mono no Aware, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Intro to 16MM Filmmaking, Mono no Aware, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Projection Basics, Mono no Aware, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Color Photograms, Mono no Aware, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Muybridge Deconstructed: 16mm to Still Image, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
2022 Teaching Assistant for Curtis Willocks, International Center of Photography, New York
2021 Teaching Assistant for Janelle Lynch, International Center of Photography, New York
2020 Teaching Assistant for Lesly Deschler-Canossi, International Center of Photography, New York
2018 Teaching Assistant for Curtis Willocks, High School of Fashion Industries, New York
2017 Teaching Assistant for Ife Abdus-Salam, International Center of Photography, New York