EDUCATION
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, BFA
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, BA in Fine Arts, cum laude
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Laura Barr | Above Below, Gantner Gallery, EAA, Essex, CT, July, 2021
Laura Barr, Recent Work, Artsy.net/3walls, online exhibition on Artsy at 3 Walls Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2021
Here and There, (Instagram online exhibition @the.minimodern) The Mini Modern, 2020
Laura Barr, Paintings | Drawings, Carl Miller Gallery, Evergreen Woods, North Branford, CT, 2019
Ocean Elegy, Paintings | Drawings, Keyes Gallery, WWML, Stony Creek, CT, 2019
Laura Barr, Paintings | Drawings, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2016
Local Color, Keyes Gallery, WWML, Stony Creek, CT, 2014
Rock Water Glass, New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven, CT, 2014
Laura Barr Paintings, Paul Mellon Art Center, Wallingford, CT, 2009
SELECTED TWO PERSON, GROUP + JURIED EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming:
Address to the Moon, Gallery NAGA, Curated by Powell Fine Art Advisory, Boston, MA, June 7- July 12, 2024
Phases of Light, part of An Exhibition in Four Acts, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Susan Stillman, Old Lyme, CT, 2024
New Haven Paint and Clay Club 123rd Annual Exhibition, Juried by Kathyrn Myers, Professor of Painting, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Gallery at Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT, 2024
First Impressions, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Russ Kramer, Old Lyme, CT, 2024
SWS23: Art for Right Now 2023, Gallery B Gallery, Castine, Maine, 2023
SMFA at Tufts Annual Exhibition and Sale 2023, Boston, MA, 2023
Deck the Walls, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Alfonzo Clarke, Old Lyme, CT, 2023
Fragile Planet, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Mark Shasha, Old Lyme, CT, 2023
New Haven Paint and Clay Club Active Members Exhibit, Sill House Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, 2023
Rethinking the Landscape, Conversations with Artists, online exhibition: www.conversationswithartists.com, 2023
New England Landscape, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Charis J. Carmichael Braun, Old Lyme, CT, 2023
Guilford Art League 75th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by Jeanne Criscola, Principal, Criscola Design & Professor at CCSU, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT, 2023
93rd Annual National Open Juried Exhibition, Connecticut Women Artists, Juried by Cecelia Feldman, PhD, Chief Curator, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, Barnes-Franklin Gallery, Tunxis Community College, Farmington, CT, 2023
KLG@20, A Twenty Year Anniversary Exhibition, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2023
Expanding Visions, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Maggie Nowinski, Old Lyme, CT, 2023
New Haven Paint and Clay Club 122nd Annual Exhibition, Juried by Robert Burns, Executive Director of the
Mattatuck Museum, ECOCA, New Haven, CT, 2023
Artists Invite Artists, Keyes Gallery, WWML, Stony Creek, CT, 2023
Tides and Currents, curated by Jeanne Ciravolo, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, Branford House, University of Connecticut at Avery Point,
Groton, CT, 2022
Shoreline Arts Trail Artists at Connecticut Hospice, Connecticut Hospice, Branford, CT, 2022
Poetry of Motion, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Nancy Peel Gladwell, Old Lyme, CT, 2022
Deck the Walls, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Andre Ravsen, Old Lyme, CT, 2021
SMFA (School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Online Art Sale, Juried by Katie Block, Kblock Art, Atsu Gunther, Atsu Gunther Design, Hadley Powell, Powell Fine Art Advisory, and Craig Tevolitz, Platemark Design, 2021
Barr, Marks, Prodis, Soos, Steele, Keyes Gallery, WWML, Stony Creek, CT, 2021
Ship to Shore, Lyme Art Association, Juried by J. Russell Jinishian, Old Lyme, CT, 2021
She is Rising 2021, Carriage Barn Art Center, Juried by Carriage Barn Executive Director Hilary Wittmann,
LiveGirl Founder & CEO Sheri West & Ashley Prymas, founder of PLUCKY, New Canaan, CT, 2021
Expanding Visions, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Melanie Carr, Old Lyme, CT, 2021
Exposures Gallery, Sewickley, PA, 2020
New Haven Paint and Clay Club Active Members Exhibit, Sill House Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, 2020
Wind, Waves and Water, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Russ Kramer, Old Lyme, CT, 2020
Fine Line, (online exhibition) Essex Art Association, Essex, CT 2020
Art in Place: Self Isolation, (online exhibition) Standard Space Gallery, Sharon, CT, 2020
Laura Barr, Julie Bowers Murphy, and Kathy Coe, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, 2020
First Impressions, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Kimberly Monson, Old Lyme, CT, 2020
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, 2020
Fresh Expressions, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Dan Truth, Old Lyme, CT, 2019
Out my Window, Essex Art Association, Juried for awards by Fethi Meghelli, Essex, CT, 2019
Awarded the Gantner Gallery Prize/Selected for a solo exhibition in the Gantner Gallery
Waterworks, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Karen Blackwood, Old Lyme, CT, 2019
Sea & Soil, Curated by Debbie Hesse, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, 2019
Explorations, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Melanie Carr, Old Lyme, CT, 2019
Deck the Walls, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Nancy Peel Gladwell, Old Lyme, CT, 2018
New England Landscape, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Mark Boedges, Old Lyme, CT, 2018
New Haven Paint and Clay Club Active Members Exhibit, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, 2018
Summer Painting and Sculpture, Lyme Art Association, Juried by David Rau, Director of Education and
Outreach at Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, 2018
American Waters, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Monique Foster, Director of Mystic Maritime Gallery at
Mystic Seaport, Old Lyme, CT, 2018
STE[A}M: Arts & Design in Science Exhibition, BioCT Innovation Commons, Groton, CT, 2018
New Haven Paint and Clay Club Active Members Exhibit, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, 2017
Sensing the Surround, An exhibition featuring six painters who explore landscapes both real and imagined.
Curated by Debbie Hesse, Perspectives Gallery at Whitney Center, Hamden, CT, 2017
Front of House: Dining Together in Objects and Images, Juried by Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator,
Florence Griswold Museum, Mill Gallery, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT, 2017
Shoreline Arts Trail Exhibition, Friends & Company, Madison, CT, 2016
The Connecticut Shellfish Initiative Event, to celebrate Connecticut's Shellfish Past, Present and Future,
Branford House Mansion, University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT, 2016
Connecticut Women Artists 86th Annual National Open Juried Exhibition, Juried by Min Jung Kim, Director of
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT, 2016
Artist as Curator III, Group Exhibition, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2016
New Year / New Work, A Members Group Exhibition, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT,
January/February, 2016
It's A Wonderful Life: Celebrate with Art, A Members Group Exhibition, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT,
November/December, 2015
Guilford Art League 68th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by T. Wiley Carr, Professor, Southern Connecticut
State University, Mill Gallery, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT 2015
New Members Show, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT, September/October, 2015
Food for Thought, Juried by Douglas Hyland, Director of the New Britain Museum of American Art, Billy Grant,
Owner/Chef, BG Dining and Jane Rainwater, Curator, Dehn Gallery, Dehn Gallery, Manchester, CT, 2015
Guilford Art League 67th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by Helen Kauder, Visual Art Director, Artspace,
New Haven, Mill Gallery, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT 2014
New Haven Paint and Clay Club Active Members Exhibit 2014, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, 2014
34th Annual Faber Birren National Color Exhibition, Juried by Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director,
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Stamford, CT 2014
Connecticut Women Artists 85th Annual National Open Juried Exhibition, Juried by Carol Padberg,
Associate Professor and Chair of Fine Arts, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford,
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT, 2014
New Haven Paint and Clay Club 113th Annual Exhibition, Juried by Douglas Hyland, Director of the
New Britain Museum of American Art, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, 2014
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
3 Walls Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
3wallsnyc.com
Associate Artist Member, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT
lymeartassociation.org
Member, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT
newhavenpaintandclayclub.org
Elected Member, Connecticut Women Artists
ctwomenartists.org
New York Artists Equity Association, New York, NY
Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, 2019-2020
Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2015-2016
Board Member, Arts Council of Greater New Haven, CT, 2014-2016
AWARDS
Second Honorable Mention, New England Landscape, Lyme Art Association, Juried by Maggie Charis J. Carmichael Braun, Old Lyme, CT, 2023
Second Prize, Summer Art Show, Keyes Gallery, Stony Creek, CT, 2023
Juror of Awards: Eugene Healey, Artist
New Haven Paint and Clay Club Active Member Memorial Award Honoring Emily Bett, 122nd Annual Exhibition, ECOCA, New Haven, CT, 2023
Juror of Awards: Robert Burns, Executive Director of the Mattatuck Museum
Gantner Gallery Award, Essex Art Association, Essex, CT, 2019
Juror of Awards: Fethi Meghelli, Artist
Joy Wulke Memorial Prize for Use of Light, Summer Art Show, Keyes Gallery, Stony Creek, CT, 2017
Juror of Awards: Christine Ivers, Artist
Honorable Mention, Summer Art Show, Keyes Gallery, Stony Creek, CT, 2016
Juror of Awards: William M. Simpson, Artist
Pastel Prize, Summer Art Show, Keyes Gallery, Stony Creek, CT, 2015
Juror of Awards: Stephen Grossman, Artist
Joy Wulke Memorial Prize for Use of Light, Summer Art Show, Keyes Gallery, Stony Creek, CT, 2014
Juror of Awards: Laura Marsh, Director of the Seton Gallery, University of New Haven
COLLECTIONS
Yale-New Haven Health Services, 150 Sargent Street, New Haven, Connecticut
Global Bank, Connecticut
The Shapiro Center for Writing, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Ms. Martha Alexander, Connecticut
Ms. Jean Allen, Connecticut
Ms. Rabia Ali, Connecticut
Ms. Anne Ayres, Connecticut
Mr. Kemp Battle, New York
Ms. Liz Richey Beck, Maryland
Ms. Christine Bishop & Dr. Paul Arkema, Massachusetts
Ms. Jill and Dr. Daniel Boffa, Connecticut
Ms. Ellen Bogart, Connecticut
Ms. Alix Boyle, Connecticut
Ms. Cynthia Braver, Connecticut
Ms. Sara MacAllaster Brooks, Connecticut
Ms. Monique Brechter, Florida
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Broom, Connecticut
Mr. Robert E. Buckholz, Connecticut
Mr. Hans Butenschon and Ms. Unn Falkeid, Norway
Ms. Melanie Cameron, Connecticut
Ms. Beryl Meiner and Mr. Richard Carleton, ConnecticutMr. Chris Caveglia, Florida
Ms. Kathryn McKenzie and Mr. Craig Crews, Connecticut
Ms. Christine Cunningham, New York
Mr. Robert Curry, Jr., Washington
Ms. Laurie Curtain, Connecticut
Ms. Rita Cutbill, Connecticut
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Davis, Maine and Florida
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Dawson, Maine
Ms. Deb DeFord, Connecticut
Ms. Joyce Doyle, New Jersey
Ms. Christy Duggan, Connecticut
Ms. Connie Drysdale, Connecticut
Ms. Clementine Faure-Bellaiche, Massachusetts
Ms. Ingrid Sweeney and Mr. Scott Fertig, Vienna, Austria
Ms. Ariel Falconer and Mr. Peter Kramer, Connecticut
Ms. Krista Stephan and Mr. Julian Falconer, New York
Ms. Naomi Fiora, Connecticut
Ms. Anne Filley and Mr. David Squires
Ms. Lizanne Fontaine, New York
Ms. Lisa Frey, New York
Ms. Gretchen and Mr. Kim Granbery, Connecticut
Ms. Caroline Henningsen, Connecticut
Ms. Faith Hentschel, Connecticut
The Right Reverend and Mrs. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr., Ohio
Ms. Holly Hopkins, Connecticut
Ms. Kathryn Huarte, New York
Ms. Sarah Huston, Connecticut
Mr. Dong Beom Kim, Illinois
Ms. Sharon Sullivan and Mr. Jeff Kindler, New York and Florida
Ms. Kate Koller, Connecticut
Ms. Elaine Koufman, Maine
Ms. Lauri and Mr. John Lafferty, Connecticut
Ms. Jane Landis, New York
Mr. Eddie Leiderman, Connecticut
Mr. Doug and Ms. Melissa Logan, Connecticut
Ms. Joanne Falco Love, Massachusetts
Dr. Linde Meijaard and Dr. Hurbertus D. Luijk, Utrecht, Holland
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mariner, Maine
Ms. Marj Sopkin and Mr.Tom McCabe, Connecticut
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas McGlashan, Connecticut
Mr. and Mrs. John McKenna, Florida
Mr. George Merema, Connecticut
Mr. Jeff Meyers & Ms. Linda Meyers
Ms. Julie Bowers Murphy, Connecticut
Ms. Brenda Adelson Novak, Connecticut
Ms. Cindy Oneal, Illinois
Ms. Ellen Page, Connecticut
Ms. Anne S. Pardun, New Jersey
Ms. Britta Pemberton, Connecticut
Ms. Leslie Prodis and Mr. David Silberkleit, Connecticut
Ms. Valerie Rachel Roohan, Florida
Ms. Amy Rice, Connecticut
Ms. Suzanne Rothschild, Massachusetts
Ms. Tina Rozwadowski, Colorado
Ms. Mona Scales, Connecticut
Ms. Liz Scott, Connecticut
Ms. Catherine and Mr. John Seibyl, Connecticut
Mr. Joe Shea, Connecticut
Dr. Michael Southworth, New Hampshire
Ms. Molly Bourne Steffey, Connecticut
Mr. Christian Unterthiner, Vienna, Austria
Ms. Kate Walbert, New York
Mr. John Waters and Ms. Michele Waters, Connecticut
Ms. Emilie Waters, Connecticut
Ms. Mary Lee Weber and Mr. Art Weber, Connecticut
Ms. Laurie Weisman, New York
Mr. Ed Wilson, Jr., Pennsylvania
Ms. Kathryn White, Connecticut
Ms. Jean Ellen McSharry and Mr. Christopher Woerner, Connecticut
Mr. Peter Kurt Woerner, Connecticut
Ms. Hope and Mr. Joe Viviani, Connecticut
Ms. Julie Whitney, Connecticut
Ms. Joy Wulke, Connecticut
Ms. Alida and Mr. John Zimmerman, Maine
Ms. Amanda Zorumski, Connecticut