About
Laurel Hauge (b. Phoenix, AZ, 1994) lives and works in Milan, Italy.
She is the co-founder, along with her partner Lele Buonerba, of Have a Nice Day Press.
She is enamored with the aesthetic of objects and devices created with function over form in mind. She admires the wire racks that roll in and out of dishwashers and studies the aspects we don’t often consider when accomplishing a task, such as the movement of your hands when dividing something in two. Her practice focuses mainly on these somewhat impersonal yet common objects and actions we don’t relate to, but which inundate our lives.
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Education
BA Photography, Columbia College Chicago, 2016
Solo Shows
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
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
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, 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
onSITE 2016, presented by v1b3, Wabash Arts Corridor, Chicago, IL, 2016
Honors and Awards
Friends of the Library Resident Artist, Columbia College Chicago, 2015
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, 2015
Bibliography + Press
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.