Lauren Ball

Lauren Ball (she/her) received her MFA from New York University in Studio Art; studied at the Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy; received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004); and studied at the Oxbow School of Art, MI. Ball also holds an additional Master’s in Art Education from Columbia College Chicago (2015). Ball has lectured on her work at Columbia College Chicago, The College of DuPage, Roosevelt University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association, New York University, and Marymount Manhattan College. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been featured in Artnet, NewCity Art, The New York Times, and Studio Visit Magazine.

As a professor of painting and drawing and veteran art educator, my specialties are medieval and contemporary art and art history, contemporary painting practices, accessibility themes in art education, social-emotional learning strategies, teaching and learning through museum collections and gallery visits, slow looking, and painting materials and techniques. My goal is for my students to challenge their own ideas and the current modalities of making. 

Selected solo and group exhibitions: 100 Women of Spirit (2024), Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY; 11 Women of Spirit (2023), Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY; Synergy (2021), Monica King Projects and Voltz Clarke Gallery, New York, NY; Intersect Aspen (2020), Monica King Contemporary, Aspen, CO; Shape Duration (2019), Gallery 80WSE, New York, NY; UNTITLED(House) (2018), The Illinois State Museum, Lockport, IL; Resurface (2017), SideCar Gallery, Hammond, IN; Old Dynamite (2016), FreeRange Gallery, Chicago, IL; This Particular Patch (2013), Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY.