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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