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Laura McCallum has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 1981. She began her career as a sculptor, and that three-dimensional sensibility guides all her work, which includes wall pieces and video art. Laura has had exhibitions throughout the East Coast including at the Brooklyn Museum, the Thomas Werner Gallery, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Maryland Institute of the Arts, and Long Island University. Her video work has been shown at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Emory University, and the Great River Arts Institute in Vermont.

She has also has exhibited in Washington D.C., Atlanta, Seattle, Rome, Aix-en-Provence, Berlin, and Moscow. She has been exhibiting with Mémoire de l’Avenir Gallery in Paris since 2019. McCallum has had residencies at Ucross in Wyoming, the MacNamara Foundation in Maine and EarthWatch in Newcastle, England. Originally from Oregon, she was educated at Scripps College in Claremont, California and at the University of Washington. She taught at University of Washington, Pacific Lutheran University, and the Spence School where she directed the Visual Arts Department for two decades.

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Crossroads XI (oblique), 2022, 16 x 16", acrylic on panel.

S E L E C T E D  S O L O  E X H I B I T I O N S
2015        Inside the Labyrinth, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York 

​2010        Reconstructing Paper, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York

​2006       Moving Out, 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY

2004       Chants from the Sanctuary, Thomas Werner Gallery, New York
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2003       Essential Elements, Jay Hawkins Gallery, New York

S E L E C T E D  G R O U P  E X H I B I T I O N S
 2024-25      La Ligne, Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris

2024            100 Women of Spirit, Zürcher Gallery, New York
                
                     Push-Pull, Icebox Space for Artists, Brooklyn, NY
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2023            Nidus - Distraught Earth, Icebox4 Space for Artists, Brooklyn, NY 

                     Banned Book Trading Card Project, Valley Cottage Library Art                 ​               Gallery, Valley College, NY​
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                     All Fools Show, Icebox4 Space for Artists, Brooklyn, NY 
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2022
            AN/AESTHETIC, Century House Historical Society, Rosendale, NY 

                     11 Women of Spirit VI, Salon Zürcher, New York
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                     Paysage Tactiles II, Médiathèque Marguerite Duras, Paris

2021
            Emergence: 18th Annual Exhibition, Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, MA             ​
                     Paysages Tactiles, Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris

                    USA  35 x 35 Art Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens

2019
            La Femme du Futur: Manifesto, Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris

2018 
           Art of the Salish Sea, Seattle Artist’s Alliance, Seattle, WA

2017
            Eotechnic Sensorium, Century House, Rosendale, NY

                   Nasty Woman, The Knockdown Center, Queens, NY

2012
            Hindsight: Foresight, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York

                   Film on Water, Emory College Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA

2011
            The Value of Water, Cathedral Of St. John The Divine, New York

2010 
          The East Hampton Art Fair, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, East Hampton, NY  

2009
           2,191 Days And Counting, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY

                   H2O: Film On Water, Great River Arts, Bellows Falls, VT

2005 
          Paper One, Thomas Werner Gallery, New York

                   Paper Two, Thomas Werner Gallery, New York               

                   Contemporary Art Fair, Thomas Werner Gallery, Pier 92, New York              

2004
           Affordable Art Fair, Thomas Werner Gallery, Pier 92, New York

2003
           Ladders, Jay Hawkins Gallery, New York

2002
           Fables de la Fontaine, Institute for American Studies, Aix-en-                                                      Provence travelled to: Rome; Seattle, WA; Baltimore, MD

                   02/20, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                   The Human Figure, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
     
                   20th Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Fulton Ferry Park, Brooklyn, NY
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