About
Laurel Hauge (b. Phoenix, AZ, 1994) lives and works in Chicago, IL.
She is the co-founder, along with her partner Lele Buonerba, of Have a Nice Day Press.
Hauge works within structures of administration to subvert familiar concepts of artistic production. In the face of art’s (mostly unrealized) potential to drive positive change, she deliberately engages with inefficient systems contrived to “better” the community, city, or world, but which more often simply generate traceable outcomes that end up in tidy piles of statistics.
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Education
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2025 (anticipated)
BA in Photography, Columbia College Chicago, 2016
Solo Shows
Getting There, curated by Esther Espino, The Plan, Chicago, IL, 2024
I think about / all the things I could reach / before you, North Pole Exhibitions, Chicago, IL, 2020
All These Things, Bowtruss, Chicago, IL, 2016
Group Exhibitions
2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition, UIC Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, 2025
Address Unknown - Città, limiti, confini, curated by Giulio Verago, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy, 2024
Spring Viafarini Open Studio, VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Milan, Italy, 2023
Winter Viafarini Open Studio, VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Milan, Italy, 2022
bar_atto, co_atto booth at ArtVerona, Verona, Italy, 2022
Tales from the inside_out: Wander the edge, co_atto, Porta Garibaldi FS, Milan, Italy, 2022 (catalog)
Summer Viafarini Open Studio, VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Milan, Italy, 2022
CON.TATTO, GROW, Cassero fortezza Medicea, Grosseto, Italy, 2021
ReA! Art Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy, 2021 (catalog)
Global Conversations: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, Online Exhibition, 2021 (catalog)
Lines & Other Forms, dodomu gallery, Online Exhibition, 2021
2021 Leeds Summer Group Show, curated by Court Spencer, Online Exhibition, 2021
The Sky We See, Color Tag Magazine, Online Exhibition, 2020
Color Tag: Spring 2020, Color Tag Magazine, Online Exhibition, 2020 (catalog)
Endless Editions Biennial, curated by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, EFA Project Space, New York, NY, 2018
Book Paper Scissors Print, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2016
March of Miniatures, ShopColumbia, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2016
Alternative Process, juried by Amy Holmes George, PhotoPlace Gallery, Online Annex, 2015 (catalog)
The Artist Is __., CCC Latino Alliance, Chicago, IL, 2015
ShopColumbia booth at EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2014
Video Screenings
All These Social Networks and These Computers, Film Diary NYC 2.0, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
onSITE 2016, presented by v1b3, Wabash Arts Corridor, Chicago, IL, 2016
Artist Books
No More Than 10%. Single-section pamphlet book, Have a Nice Day Press, 2023
Attenti al Cane: Twentysix Dogs Found on Street View. Single-section pamphlet book, Have a Nice Day Press, (co-authored and edited with Lele Buonerba), 2018
Honors/Residencies
Visual Arts Finalist, Luminarts Fellowship, 2024
Menzione Speciale Theodora van Mierlo Benedetti, A-HEAD - Angelo Azzurro ONLUS, 2023
Artist in residence, Viafarini, Milan, Italy, Summer 2022–Spring 2023
Friends of the Library Resident Artist, Columbia College Chicago, 2015
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, 2015
Bibliography + Press
Hardman, Anneliese, Nora James, Emily Morgan, Aubrey Prestwich, and Madison Whitaker, eds. Intervention!. Chicago: Et Al: A Graduate Student Zine, 2024
———. “Top V. Weekend Picks (4/18-4/24).” Bad at Sports, April 18, 2024
Lupia, Valentina. “Premio Giovan Battista Calapai e Theodora van Mierlo Benedetti, ecco i vincitori 2023.” La Repubblica Roma, December 16, 2023
———. “Premio Calapai Benedetti: ecco i tre artisti under 35 vincitori.” Exibart.com, December 13, 2023
Macrì, Carla. “Laurel Hauge.” Inside Art, #127, March 21, 2023
Blanchietti, Marta and Anna Del Torchio. “Staging the Residency vol. II | Laurel Hauge.” ATP DIARY, 2022
Nešović, Dunja, ed. PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (INC), 2022
Innocenti, Riccardo. “Arizona, Milano, Grosseto: Laurel Hauge esplora i vuoti delle relazioni a distanza.” Il Tirreno, December 28, 2021
Jones-Little, Poppy, ed. “Lump It.” Wysing Broadcasts, 2021
Sherman, Levi. “Attenti al Cane: Twentysix Dogs Found on Street View.” Artists' Book Reviews, 2019
———. “Without an End: The Videography of Laurel Hauge.” The Matador Review, 2016
———. “Waste.” The Photographic Dictionary, 2015
Cancellieri, Agathe. “Expo Chicago: Une foire d’art internationale dans la ville 'aux larges épaules'.” L'oeil de la Photographie, September 23, 2014