CV
AWARDS
2019
Michèle Dominy Award for Teaching Excellence, Bard College, NY
2010
Peter S. Reed Foundation, grant
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund Award
2009
MTA, “Train of Thought”, images selected for poetry in motion posters on
sub-way cars across New York City
2008
Charles Loring Elliot Award and Medal, National Academy Museum
2008
Arts for Transit, Public Commission, MTA, 8 glass windows, Burnside Avenue, NYC
2002
Finalist, Arts for Transit, MTA, Larchmont Station, NY
1989
National Endowment for the Arts, individual artists grant
1986
The MacDowell Colony, NH
Fulbright Fellowship, Binational Fulbright Commission, Cairo, Egypt
1983
Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Prize, Yale School of Art, CT
1980
Artists Foundation Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Recent Work: Sculpture and Drawings, Opus 40 Art Center, Saugerties, NY
2020
Ledger Drawings, Platform Project Space, curated by Elena Sisto, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Rise, Rafius Fane Gallery, Boston, MA
2016
The Power of the Center, The Barn at Meadowbrook Farm, Red Hook, NY
2015
Laura Battle, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2014
Studio E Partners, Washington, D.C.
2010
Lohin-Geduld Gallery, NYC
2005
Lohin-Geduld Gallery, NYC
2004
Bard College, Fisher Art Center, Annandale, NY
2001
Columbia Green, Hudson, NY
1998
Hudson River Landscapes, ADD, Hudson, NY
1996
Albany Center Galleries, NY
1993
Five Points Gallery, solo show, East Chatham, NY
1990
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1987
Van Buren, Brazelton, Cutting Gallery,Boston, MA, 1987
1985
Atelier du Caire, Cairo Egypt
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007
Lohin Geduld Gallery, NYC
2005
Arsenal 17, two person show, Benecia, CA
Wheelock College, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
The Secret Life of Objects, Majenta Plains Gallery,,
curated by and in memorium of Barbara Ess, NYC
About the LIne, Thompson Giroux Gallery, curated by Donna Moylan, Chatham, NY
2020
Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2019
In-Faux Structures, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
2017
Byrdclife Kleinert Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2016
Touch the Sky, Art and Astronomy, Frances Lehman Loeb Institute at
Vassar College, curated my Mary-Kay Lombino, Poughkeepsie, NY
2015
Language of the Birds, Occult and Art, NYU, Steinhardt Gallery, NYC
Elegant Solutions, Byrcliffe Kleinert Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2014
Atwater Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY
The Perfect Measure, the Golden Ratio, SPAF, Saugerties, NY
2012
Studio E Partners, Washington, DC
Native Hill, Henry Hudson Studios, Hudson, NY
Drawing the Mind, Concordia College, NY
2011
Rotation, Lohin Gedule Gallery, summer
Wentworth-Coolidge State Park, Art Encounters Preservation
2010
Large/Small: A gallery selection, Lohin-Geduld Gallery, NY
2009
Black and White, Hosfelt Gallery, NYC
Intricacies, Lohin Geduld Gllery, NYC
Drawing Atlas, Philadelphia College of Art and Design
Artists Choice, Lohin Geduld Gallery, NYC
Geometrics II, Gallery 128, NYC
2008
Lohin-Geduld Gallery, Drawing Atlas, NYC
National Academy Museum, The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Drawing Revealed, Garrison Art Center, NY
2007
Chautauqua Institute, group drawing show, NY
Argassi Art, group show, Lakeville, CT
Gallerie D’Art Essaadi, Carthage, Tunisia
2006
13th Anniversary Show, The Painting Center, NYC
In/formed Color, BRIK, Catskill, NY
Lehman College Art Gallery, MTA Commission Exhibition
2004
Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT
The Painting Center, NY
The Means, RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1991
Burning in Hell, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, curated by Nancy Spero
1985
Atelier du Caire, Cairo, Egypt
1980
Art of the State, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,
Massachusetts Council on the Arts Exhibition, MA
SELECTED PRESS
The Art Guide, The Secret Lives of Objects, TheGuide.Art, 2021
The Wire, The Secret Lives of Objects, 2021
Huffington Post, Laura BattleTouches the Celestial Heavens with Her Paint Brush, artlyst reviews https://www.artlyst.com/reviews/laura-battle-touches-the-celestial-heavens-with-her-paint-brush/
Chronogram cover, Kingston, NY, 2017
New York Times, Touch the Sky, Art and Astronomy, 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/nyregion/at-vassar-seeing-the-heavens-with-paint-pencil-and-cocaine.html
Art in America, Lohin Geduld Show, Alfred Corn, 2008
New York TImes, Ken Johnson 2008
Stalking Aesthetic Sensations, The Artful Mind, 2000
EDUCATION
Pilchuck Glass School, summer workshops, Stanwood, WA 2004, 2005
MFA, Yale School of Art, Painting, 1983
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Painting, 1979
Kirkland College, 1974-1976
The Corcoran School of Art, summers, 1974, 1976
LECTURES
MICA, lecture and crits to graduate students, 2022
Studio School of NY, graduate program, visiting critic, 2022
Oberlin College, lecture and crits. 2019
Columbia Green, Lecture 2014
Panel Discussion, Drawing the Mind, 2012
Rhode Island School of Design, 2013
Bard College, 2004
Columbia Green, 2001
Catskill Center for the Arts, 1994
Kanazawa College of Art, 1991
Hampshire College, 1987
Brown University, 1986
University of Massachusetts, 1986
Art Institute of Boston, 1986
Boston Women’s Caucus, 1986
Yale School of Art, 1985
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College
American Academy of Arts and letters gift to the
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Library of Congress
NYU Langone Art Program, NY
American Embassy in Kerzakstan
American Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan
American Embassy in Bulgaria
American Embassy in Jeddah
The Progressive Corporation
Metropolitan Transit Authority, Arts in Transit, Burnside Avenue
TEACHING
Professor of Art, Bard College, Annandale, NY, with tenure, 1986-present,
promoted to Full Professor 1999, retiring Spring 2023
Bard Prison Initiative, at Eastern and Woodburn Correctional Facilites,
Drawing 1 & 2, 4 semesters and one sjummer class.
IS183, Visiting artist, Encaustics workshops, 2002, 2003
Vermont College of Norwich University Graduate program, 1993-1994
Instructor in Design, Assumption College, Worcester, MA 1986