Laura Lancaster

Biography
 
Born 1979 Hartlepool, UK
1998 - 2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Northumbria University

Lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2010
Laura Lancaster, Workplace Gallery, UK (forthcoming)
2007
Solo Presentation, Workplace Gallery at NADA Art Fair, Miami, USA
Laura Lancaster, Bailiffgate Museum, Northumberland, UK
2005
Laura Lancaster: New Figurative Paintings, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Lounge I: New Works on Paper by Laura Lancaster, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
 
Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
PAINTINGS FROM ENGLAND & AMERICA, CRISP, London, UK
2009
Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection,The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK.
Dawning Of An Aspect, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
Islands Never Found, Touring to Museums in Athens, Napoli, and Valencia (curated by Lorand Hegyi)
BCN Collection, Coopers Building, Newcastle, UK
Day After Day After Day, Star & Shadow Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Secret Exhibition, Ma2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Ego Documents, The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Salon (The Cartin Collection) Ars Libri, Hartford and Boston, USA
The White, Ma2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lost & Found, Workplace Gallery at Zoo Art Fair, London, UK
Behind, curated by Ilaria Gianni, Monitor, Rome, Italy
Islands Never Found, Touring to Museums in Athens, Napoli, and Valencia
'All My Favourite Singers Couldn't Sing …', Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Harker Herald, Newcastle upon Tyne
Micro Narratives, Musee d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne
Incontri, in the Accademia d'Ungheria a Roma
Past as Present, York Art Gallery
2007
October Salon - Micro-Narratives, Belgrade Biennial
False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Laura Lancaster & Katy Woods, the international3, Manchester
SALON07: New British painting and works on paper, Art Work Productions, London

Selected Group Exhibitions continued

2006
Formal Dining, Hales Gallery curated by Workplace, London
Giardino Luoghi Della Piccola Realta, Palazzo Della Arte Napoli, curated by Lorand Hegyi
Local Stories, Museum of Modern Art Oxford
Blue Star Red Wedge, curated by Workplace for Glasgow International 06
When I Lived in Modern Times, The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

Selected Collections
 
The Government Art Collection, UK
Private Collections UK, USA, AUS
UBS Bank Collection
Simmons & Simmons Collection
Ernst & Young Collection
Unilever PLC Collection
The Hort Collection, USA
The Lodeveans Collection
The Cartin Collection
The Zabludowicz Collection
Business Network Collection, Newcastle-Gateshead, UK

Residencies
 
2008
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
 
Bibliography
 
2009
Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection
2008
Ego Documents. The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art, Kehrer
Micro-Narratives, Tentation des petites realities, Musee Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, L. Hegyl
2007
Micro-Narratives, 48th October Salon, Belgrade Bienialm L. Hegyl
2006
Giardino Luoghi Della Piccola Realta, Palazzo della Arte Napoli, exhibition catalogue, L. Hegyl.
Local Stories, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, exhibition catalogue, A. Nairne
2005
When I Lived in Modern Times, The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, exhibition catalogue, A. Robinson
2004
What it Takes to Keep a Young Girl Alive, essay by Moira Jeffrey, 'WORKPLACE', pub. Art Editions North, UK

Awards

2009
Journal Culture Award, Artist of the Year 2008/09
2008
Shortlisted for The Sovereign Art Prize (Prize announced October 2008)
2001
Winner, Unilever Fresh Graduate Award