Cathy McLaurin
mclaurincathy@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MFA candidate 2013 School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston
B.A. Liberal Arts, Concentration in Studio Arts Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
GRANTS + AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2011
Alfredo Jaar: Public Interventions, Harvard University, awarded by faculty nomination an
application as selected by Alfredo Jaar
2010
Montague Travel Fund Grant for travel in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, Glasgow, and England,
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2007
Puffin Foundation Grant
2006
Southwest School of Art & Craft Artist Residency Award San Antonio, TX
2003
Berkshire Taconic Artist’s Resource Trust Award
Caldera Artist Residency Award Caldera, OR
2001
The Charlotte Home Grant Stephens Foundation
Forest Foundation Grant
PERFORMANCE WORK
2012
Performance Art Links, Fylkingen, Stockholm
2011
Hot for Teacher, Howard Project, Dorchester, MA Curated by: Alaina Gurdak
Grace Space, Brooklyn, NY
Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On, University of NC Art Dept & Town of Chapel Hill, NC
Curated by: elin o’Hara slavick
Performance documentation video presented at New Territories New Moves Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
2010
Grace Space, Brooklyn, NY
Vessel for Haiti II, Mobius, Boston, MA
2009
Where the arms hook onto the body University of Tennessee, Knoxville;
Endicott College, Beverly
2008
Where the arms hook onto the body In conjunction with Many Kinds of Nothing, Montserrat
College of Art, Beverly, MA
2005
Still busy….Sitting still Floating Studio, Lawrence, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
what haunts… Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2007
Ice Cream, No Regrets Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Sock Monkey Kama Sutra Project Space, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Buscando la verdad/Seeking truth Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
2006
Making nice Willow Community Gallery, LynnArts, Lynn, MA
2005
Two Projects: What haunts… and Still busy…Sitting still Conant Gallery Lawrence Academy,
Groton, MA.
what haunts… Space, Portland, ME
Wallflowers Bromfield Gallery, Boston,MA
New Work Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. Visiting Artist
2004
what haunts… Artspace, New Haven, CT
what haunts… New Haven Public Library, New Haven, CT
2003
Lore McQuade Library Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2002
what haunts… Artists Foundation, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Transatlantic Fun-O-Pack, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011
Signs of Our Times, Palach Galerija, Rijeka, Croatia Curated by: Ivana Rezek
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA Curated by: Jen Mergel, Camilo Alvarez, and Matt Rich
Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston A global exhibition
Local Histories II, Orange County Historical Museum Curated by: elin o’Hara slavick
2010
Temporal Identities NKGallery, Boston, MA
Conspectus I Artspace, New Haven, CT
2009
Morphanimism Satellite Space, University of Texas at San Antonio
Locating the garden Gelb Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2008
Human Animal Project Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
Curated by Paul Roux and Barbara Curated by Elin O’hara Slavick
Hybrid Brodigan Gallery, Groton School, Groton, MA
2005
A different Honest Le Gallery, Toronto, Canada Curated by James Kirkpatrick
2004
Participation Required Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURESHIP/OTHER
2011
Assisted artist, Tania Bruguera on her Immigration Movement International project, in conjunction with Experience Economies, Boston, MA
2011
Assisted artist, Tania Bruguera on her Immigration Movement International project, in conjunction with Experience Economies, Boston, MA
2010
Endicott College, Beverly, MA
2009
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2008
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA Presenting where the arms hook onto the body
Groton School, Groton, MA
2007
Clark University, Worcester, MA
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2006
New England Consortium of Artist-Educator Professionals Boston, MA
Merrimack College North Andover, MA
Women’s Caucus for Art National Conference Boston, MA
Lawrence Academy Groton, MA
National Art Honor Society Induction Ceremony Currier Museum of Art Manchester, NH
Meredith College Raleigh, NC
2004
Fuller Museum Brockton, MA
REVIEWS + PRESS
2011
The Boston Globe, July 27, Cate McQuaid, Seen here: promise
2008
“Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb”, Paula Owen, Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture
and Contemporary Art, Duke University Press
2007
“Co-Created Art Rituals from the Personal to the Transnational”, Catherine Judge, BLAZE:
Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism, Edited by Karen Frostig & Kathy Halamka, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing (UK)
Artist's Resource Trust Ten Year Retrospective Catalogue, 100 Art Artists, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
2002
Art New England, December/January, Paul Parcellin, The Artists Foundation/South
Boston: what haunts by Cathy McLaurin
The Boston Globe, August 23, Cate McQuaid, Some edgy artists play with space
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2009
James & Audrey Foster Prize nominator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Salt of the Earth: New Art Collective Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA
2000 – present
Director/Curator, Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
POSITIONS
2006 – 2010
Adjunct Faculty, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
1998 – present
Special Projects & Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery Director, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
