Ian Laughlin
Solo & co-curated Exhibitions
2024 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock NY “Bio-Sphere” w/David Van Tieghem performance on sound sculpture
2024 Streamside, Chichester, NY “Candlemas 2024” w/Sylvia Bullett, David Van Tieghem, David Rothenberg & Jaanika Peerna
Sound sculpture with performance video
2023 10th ARFF Paris // International Awards w/Honorable Mention “Chilling Effects with Glacial Survival Instinct”
2023 Streamside, Chichester, NY “Candlemas 2023” w/Sylvia Bullett & David Van Tieghem
Sound sculpture with performance video released
2022 Streamside, Chichester, NY “Lunasa 2022” w/ David Van Tieghem
Sound sculpture with performance video released
2022 Streamside, Chichester, NY “Candlemas 2022” w/Sylvia Bullett & David Van Tieghem
Sound sculpture with performance video released
2021 Streamside, Chichester, NY “Lunasa 2021” w/Sylvia Bullett & David Van Tieghem
Sound sculpture with performance video released
2021 Streamside, Chichester, NY “Candlemas 2021” w/Sylvia Bullett & David Van Tieghem
Sound sculpture with performance video released
2020 Matagiri, Mt Tremper NY – “Fire & Ice”
2014 Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY – “Stuffed Vote” w/Election Night Voting Performance
2001 Phoenicia Town Center – “In the Orb Eye of Eggamotto” installation
1998 WAA, Woodstock, New York. “Self & Shadow”
1993 Donskoj & Co., Kingston, New York. “Emergence”
1982 Govett Brewser, New Plymouth, NZ “New Art-New Artists”
1981 Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1980 Brooke-Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, NZ “Interiors”
1979 Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Hollengold Farm, Accord, NY. “ROOTED” curated by Sergey Jivetin w/Cross-Pollinators of the Hudson Valley
Sound sculptures performed on by Bobby Previte
2023 The Lace Mill, Kingston, NY -“Avant-Garde-Arama Visits The Lace Mill” Curated by Charles Dennis
2022 White Pines, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock NY – “SHELTER” Curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson
2019 JJ Newberry/11 Jane St, Saugerties NY “ISDay Day Saugerties” Curated by Jen Dragon
2019 White Pines, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock NY – “Psych Out!!!“ Curated by Alan Baer
2018 Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY – “ISDay Day Saugerties” Curated by Jen Dragon
2017 Kleinert/James Center for the Arts , Woodstock NY – “Terra” Curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson
2014 White Box, NYC “June 4th” Anniversary Exhibition – Curated by Robert Lee
2014 Pratt Manhattan, NYC – “Pratt Falls 2014: How to Talk and Eat for Peace” –
The Pavlova TPP Performance Curated by Larry Litt
2014 Kleinert/James “5×7” – “Woodstock Water”
2012 Pratt Manhattan, NYC – “Art in the Age of Political Absurdity” Curated by Eleanor Heartney
2012 GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill, NY “Whale Oil to Whole Foods” Curated by Christy Rupp / Fawn Potash
2010 Varga Gallery, Woodstock NY “Remembering 9/11”
2010 Alma in Manhattan, NYC – “Your Documents Please” Curated by Daniel Georges / Rumi Tsuda
2010 Exit Art, NYC “FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill” Curated by Lauren Rosati
2008 Museum of Arts and Crafts – Itami, Itami-shi, Japan
2008 ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan “Your Documents Please” Curated by Daniel Georges / Rumi Tsuda
2008 Varga Gallery, Woodstock NY “East Village / Lower East Side”
2007 Y Gallery , Queens NY “ Making Good Luck”. Curated by Larry Litt / Cecilia Jurado
2007 The Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia NY “Hot” – Curated by Nita Friedman
2006 2B Galeria, Budapest Hungary. “1956 Commemorative Exhibition -Sculptors (Works)”
2006 White Box, NYC “What War?” Curated by Eleanor Heartney / Larry Litt / Juan Puntes
2002 Exit Art “Reactions” Curated by Jeanette Ingberman / Papo Colo
2002 MoMA, NYC “Life of the City”
2001 450 Broadway Gallery, “A Collabrative Fusion”, Curated by Elisabeth Condon /Adelheid Mers
1999 Kingston Sculpture Biennale NY Curated by Chris Gonyea
1998 Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY
1998 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC – 4 Artist Show
1998 JCB Rockefeller Center, NYC; Curated by Walter Wickiser curator
1998 80 Washington Square E. Galleries, NYC “Small Works”; juried by Ealan Wingate
1997 Woodstock Artists Space, Woodstock NY – 3 Artist Show
1997 The Art Studio, Woodstock, NY
1994 BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Show, NYC. “See” Curated by Daniel Georges
1993 Drawing Center, NYC
1992 Donskoj & Co., Kingston, NY
1992 Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio
1992 Mexic-Arte, Austin Texas
1991 Bill Bace Gallery, NYC
1990 PS1, NYC. “China: June 4th 1989” Curated by Robert Lee
1985 Arbitrage/Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC
1985 Ronald Feldman, NYC
1984 Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC “Yesterday’s Tomorrows” –
Sculpture for J Johnson’s model of Fuller’s Dyamaxion House
1984 M-13 Gallery, NYC Curated by Howard Scott
1984 Fashion Moda, Bronx, NYC
1984 Kamakazi, NYC “Karnival – Pan Arts” & “Light Moving”
1980 CSA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ, “Still Life Exhibition”
1979 CSA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ “New Zealand Drawing Exhibition”
1979 NZ Consulate: Sydney, Australia, Sydney Biennale – Alternative Show
Publications
“SHELTER”catalogue. Organized by Melinda Stickney-Gibson 2022
Hudson Valley One, July 3, 2022 “Shelter” at White Pines by Lynn Woods
Inside and Out Upstate NY, August 3, 2022 by Jen Dragon
Chronogram, Feb 2020 Candlemas 2020 Fire & Ice
Artspiral, July 17, 2019 “REACTIVE MEMORY”
Hudson Valley One, April 19th 2018 by Lynn Woods
“TERRA” catalogue Curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson 2017
Woodstock Times, Nov. 6, 2014 “Stuffed Vote” p20 Smart Art/Paul Smart
“Art in the Age of Political Absurdity” 2012
“Your Documents Please” 2008
“Making Good Luck” Catalogue with essay by Eleanor Heartney 2007
The Phoenicia Times, Oct. 25th 2007 “Tiki – Fortune Favors The Bold”
Kingston Biennale 1999 Catalogue
The Woodstock Times, Sept. 10th, 1998 p11. “Aluminum Shadows” – James Polk
The Daily Freeman, Sept. 1998 – Joan Darcy
Chronogram Nov. 1997
The Woodstock Times, Sept. 11th, 1997 p12. “Cooperative creativity” – Dakota Lane
BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Show Artists Book 1994
The Daily Freeman, July 9th,1993 pp6,8. -“Laughlin’s art defies accepted norms”- James Shine
The Woodstock Times, July 8th,1992 – “Springs & sneakers squeezed from meaning”- Dakota Lane
“China: June 4 1989” 1990 – “doors”
Public Collections
MoMA, NYC
Asian American Arts Center, NYC
Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
National Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Commissions
2 Murals, Princess Margaret Hospital, Christchurch, NZ 1981
Mural, Christchurch Public Hospital, Christchurch, NZ 1980
Education
1979 B.F.A. (Painting) equivalent w/hons. – University of Canterbury, NZ
Born Christchurch, New Zealand