LAURA
MOSQUERA
From: Chicago, US
Based in: New York, US
Born: 1966
Main Artistic Themes: Painting
Web: lauramosquera.com
Laura Mosquera is a painter living in Brooklyn, New York. She was a Professor of Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design and while there was named an International Council of Fine Arts Deans fellow.
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Mosquera received her M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Acrylic and flashe on canvas 66" x 75" - five overlapping canvases 2017
Acrylic on canvas 75.5" x 80.5", 2014
Acrylic, flashe and gouache on canvas 57" x 57 1/2", 2018
Acrylic, flashe and gouache on canvas 79-1/4" x 88-3/4" x 22", 2016
Acrylic, flashe and gouache on panel 16" x 20", 2017
Acrylic, flashe and gouache on panel 18" x 24", 2017
Acrylic, flashe and gouache on panel 18" x 24", 2017
Acrylic and gouache on canvas 24" x 24", 2016
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Laura Mosquera received her M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She solo exhibitions include the Contemporary Art Museum in Salamanca Spain, Feigen Contemporary Gallery New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, moniquemeloche gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery and Rosefsky Gallery at Binghamton University.
A permanent installation of paintings has been installed at the Archer Heights Branch Library commissioned through the City of Chicago Percent for Art Program, and 8 billboards of her paintings continue to be exhibited at the Red Line Subway station at Chicago Ave. and State Street sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the CTA's Adopt a Station Project.
Her work is in the collections of both the Museum of Contemporary Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and the Contemporary Art Museum (CASA) in Salamanca Spain. She was a Professor and Chair of Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design for 6 years. She has completed residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; the Hambidge Center and the Ragdale Foundation and most recently had a solo exhibition at Rosefsky gallery in Binghamton, NY.
She recently participated in a group exhibition, Latin American Contemporary Art at Agora Gallery, New York, NY. and is featured in Luxe Interiors + Design in November. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Selected Exhibitions