EDUCATION
1980 MFA - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1977 BFA - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Beyond the Meadow - Taproot Theater, Seattle WA
2020 Remnants - Seattle Pacific University Nickerson Studios
2016 After Images - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2010 The Western Wall - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2009 The Western Wall -SPAC Gallery, Seattle WA
2005 The Gray - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Love’s Lyric - Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 The Habit of Being - Blackbridge Hall Gallery, GCSU, Milledgeville, GA
1997 The Habit of Being - Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Laura Lasworth - Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Laura Lasworth - Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Laura Lasworth - Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Laura Lasworth - Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
1984 Laura Lasworth - Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
1981 Laura Lasworth - LAICA, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Transcendent - Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood CA
2016 Into the Mystic - CBU Gallery, Riverside, CA
2016 Art & Spirit - First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, CA.
2016 Search for Meaning - Vachon Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle WA
2015 Post-It 11 - GiantRobot2, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Signs of Life - Sturt Haaga Gallery (Descanso Gardens), Pasadena, CA
2014 Storytellers - Earl & Virginia Green Art Gallery, BIOLA University, La Mirada, CA
2013 N.A.M.E. @ 40 - Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2013 The Interior Castle - Holy Family, South Pasadena, CA
2013 Group Show - Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA
2012 Summer Group Show - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Borders - Confluence Gallery, Twisp WA
2012 Small Works - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Prophets - St. James Cathedral Chapel, Seattle, WA
2011 The Artist’s Daughter - North Park University Gallery Chicago IL
2010 U.P. Drawing 2010, Contemporary Drawing Art Faire < http://www.be-art-website.com/index.php?in=10154 >
2009 Self Absorbed: Contemporary Portraiture - SPAC Gallery, Seattle WA
2007 Hope: Open/Close - SPAC Gallery, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
2007 The Luck of the Draw - Lora Schlesinger, Santa Monica CA
2007 The S Word - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Eclectic Vision - The Archer School Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 The S Word - Judson Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Likeness - Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Passion/Passover - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Drawing Studies & Painting - The Judson Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2004 Drawings - Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2004 Faculty Show - Seattle Pacific University, Seattle WA
2004 Bodily Notions - Glendale College, Glendale CA
2003 LA Post Cool - Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles CA
2003 LA Post Cool - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2002 Faculty Show - Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
2001 Representing LA - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Occidental College
2001 The Importance of Being Ernest - Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Michael Duncan
2001 Representing LA - South Texas Institute of Art, Corpus Christie, TX
2000 Representing LA - Frye Art Museum Seattle, WA
2000 The Changing Face of Portraiture - Chapman University, Orange, CA
1999 Marks and Beyond - Mount San Antonio College, CA
1998 Group Show - Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Transfiguration - Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Seeking Balance - Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1996 Still Life, Still Here - Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Burning Lights - Hearst Art Gallery, Moraga, CA
1995 Burning Lights - Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1995 The Ladies of Tortue - Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Spiritual Inquiries - Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Burning Lights - Biola University, La Mirada, CA
1994 The Art Cup - Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Burning Lights - LaBand Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Sacred and Profane - Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Fiction - Parnas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Serious Beauty - Stuart Katz Loft, Laguna Beach, CA
1993 Light and Space - Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Appraising the Preternatural - Patricia Shea, Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Personal Mythologies - Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 The Spiritual Landscape - Biota Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Group Show - Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
1989 Art Against Aids - Murray Feldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Group Show - Judy Youens Gallery, Houston TX
1988 Alumni Show - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1987 Miracles and Mysteries - Cal State Dominguez Hills, CA
1987 Faculty Show - Cal State University, Northridge, CA
1986 Group Show - Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, (organized by Tom Solomon)
1986 Fantastic Vision - Simard Halm Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Art on Film - Downey Museum, Downey, CA
1986 Faculty Show - Cal State University, Northridge, CA
1984 Interiors/Exteriors - Gensler & Ass., Los Angeles, CA
1984 Crime & Punishment -Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
1983 Painting of the Month - LAICA, Los Angeles, CA (selected by Betty Asher).
1982 Group Show, LA Artcore - Los Angeles, CA
1982 Summer Small Works Show - Swope Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 The Intimate Object - Downtown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLICATIONS
~ Critical Reviews Solo Shows
2016 LA Times, After Images, August 2016
2010 Art in America: International Review June-July
2010 LA Times, The Western Wall, March 5
2005 LA Times, March 18
2001 Art in America, December
2001 LA Times, Thursday May 3
2001 Art Scene, May 2001- vol. 20 no. 9 Continuing & Recommended
2001 The Jewish Journal, Rapture in Color; Vol 16, Number 6. 13-19 Nisan, 5761.April 6-12
1998 Art in America: International Review June-July
1998 Artweek, January Issue
1997 LA Times, Friday Nov. 28
1989 Artforum, December
1989 LA Times, Friday Sept. 15
1987 LA Times, Friday Nov. 13
1987 LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”, November
1985 LA Times, Friday, Jan. 11
1984 LA Times, Friday, Jan. 13
~ Features
2023 Art & Cake, Transcendent - Art Review by David S. Rubin, Jan. 6, 2023
2016 Huffington Post, ‘Art & Spirit’, Feb. 23, 2016 <https://www.huffpost.com/entry/art-and-spirit-at-the-fir_b_9294734>
2014 Huffington Post, "5 Representational Painters Reflect on Art In The Digital Age", Sept. 16
2010 Response, back cover; spring 2010 - vol. 33 no. 1
2009 The Other Journal The Aesthetics Issue July 2
2008 Response, Beyond the Bounds; spring 2008 – vol.31 no.1
2005 Art Scene, The New Zeitgeist, John O’Brien, May 2005
2005 Art Scene The New Zeitgeist, John O’Brien, May
2004 LA Times, Drawings, August 13
2004 Response, back cover; winter 2004 - vol. 27 no. 1
2003 Kansas City Star, LA POST COOL, February 16
2003 Lanterna Magica, Toti Mary O’Brian, Petite Fleur: Art of Laura Lasworth - Mignon Nemapress
2002 Silicon Valley Community Newspapers, LA POST COOL, Friday Dec. 13
2002 The Mercury News, LA POST COOL, Friday Dec. 6
2002 Brave Little Slackers, Internet Review of LA POST COOL, December 2002
2001 LA Times, The Importance of Being Ernest, Friday March 2
2000 Flannery O’Connor Bulletin, Vol.26-27-998-2000 Reflections on the Pilgrimage - Laura Lasworth; Published by GCSU
2000 LA Times: San Gabriel Valley Weekly, For All That is Sacred, June 19-15
1998 BUZZ, What’s the Buzz: The Art Page, April
1998 LA Weekly, “Arts Pick of the Week”, Drawings IV, Aug. 14
1997 LA Times, Small Works: Cal Arts Alumni Show, Sept. 16
1997 IMAGE Journal, Post Modern Mystic: The Art of Laura Lasworth; Fall-1997-Number 17
1997 Gadfly, Article on the Art of Laura Lasworth, December Vol. 2 No. 12
1996 Ribot, Paul Vangelisti, Editor, [CONS]
1996 Contra Costa Times, Burning Lights, Jan. 12- 18
1995 The Press Enterprise, Burning Lights, Oct. 22
1994 LA Times, Burning Lights, Saturday Nov. 12
1994 LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”; Burning Lights Nov. 25-Dec. 1
1992 LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”; Personal Mythologies April 1
1989 Angeles Magazine, August
1988 Visions, Spaces of Mind: The Art of Laura Lasworth; winter 1987 – vol. 1 no. 5
1987 Franc Magazine, November '87 Issue
1986 LA Weekly, The Next Generation: Critics Pics-Laura Lasworth”, December 4
1984 Images and Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1 July-August,1984
1983 Art Week, “Painting of the Month”, Selected by Betty Asher, Vol. 14, No. 11, March 19
~ Catalogues
2020 Monograph; Publisher, Seattle Pacific University Art Department
2016 After Images, catalogue; Publisher, Lora Schlesinger Gallery
2014 Story Tellers; Publisher, BIOLA University
2010 The Western Wall; catalogue; Publisher, Lora Schlesinger Gallery
2007 The S-Word: The State of 'Spirituality' in Contemporary Art; CD format
2006 The S-Word: The State of 'Spirituality' in Contemporary Art; Lulu Publishing
2005 Contemporary Art As Preparation, by David Judson; Lulu Publishing
2000 Representing LA; Publisher, Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA
2000 The Changing Face of Portraiture; Publisher, Chapman University, Orange, CA
1986 Burning Lights; Publisher, La Band Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University
1986 Crime & Punishment, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
~ Plates & Cover Art
2024 Cover Art, Matters for You Alone, Leslie Williams, Slant Books (coming May 14, 2024)
2020 Illustration, The Stuff of Grief, Laura Bramon Hassan, Slant Books, May 18,
2014 Cover Art, The Hermeneutics of Tradition, C. Hovey & C. P. Olsen, Wipf & Stock Publishing
2011 Cover Art, Beauty Will Save the World, by Gregory Wolfe, ISI Publishing
2009 Cover Art, Presence Vol.15 No.3, September
2008 Cover Art, Response, spring 2008 – vol. 31 no. 1
2008 Cover Art, Lilly Fellows Program, 18th National Conference
2000 Art & Soul, Adrienne Chaplin & Hilary Brand, Paternoster Publishing
2000 CD Cover, Reluctant Hosts, Non Credo
1998 Album Cover, Reluctant Hosts, Non Credo
1990 The Book of Cups, Garth Clark, Abbeville Press, New York; Cross River Press
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2023 to 2024 - Seattle University, Adjunct Faculty
2002 to 2020 - Professor of Art Emeritus, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle WA
1990 to 2002 - Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA , Faculty