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Solo Exhibitions
2011   Air, 1 GAP Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2010   Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2007   Lesley Heller Gallery, New York
2004   Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia
2002   Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2000   Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
1996   Tenri Gallery, New York
1989   Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions
2011   Paper, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn
2010   Rhyme, Not Reason, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, curated by John Yau
          Works on Paper, Big Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City, New York
          Paperworks, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
2009   Mary Carlson and Laura Newman
          Big Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City, New York
          It's a Wonderful Tenth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2008   The 183rd Annual Invitational Exhibit of Contemporary American Art,
          National Academy Museum, New York
          Places, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
2007   Horizon, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, curated by David Humphrey
          Continuum, 'Temporary Museum, Brooklyn, New York
2006   Air, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, curated by Amy Sillman,
          Palpable Painting, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey
2004   Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
2002   Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
          Current Undercurrent, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
1997   Three Painters, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
1995   Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum, New York

Reviews and Publications
2010   Catalog, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University.
          Essays by Amy Sillman and John Yau
          Artcritical.com, "Never Trust a Laura Newman Vertical," September
2008   Catalog, National Academy Museum,
          The 183rd Annual Invitational Exhibit of Contemporary American Art
2007   Stephanie Buhman, page 35, The Brooklyn Rail, October
          "A Wild Horizon," Stephen Maines, The New York Sun, July 5
          "The Impermanent Collection III," New York Arts Magazine
2005   New American Paintings, pages 110-112, juried by Nicolas Baume
2002   Exhibition Review, Martha Schwendener, Artforum Magazine, Summer
2002   Judith Linhares, "Laura Newman," Bomb Magazine, Spring
1996   Roberta Smith, The New York Times, June 21

Selected Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
2004-9   Vassar College Research Award
1996   New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Painting
1992   American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rosenthal Foundation Award
1981   John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting
1980   Rome Prize Fellowship in Painting, The American Academy in Rome

Teaching
1999-present Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
1999-2000     Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1998             State University of New York at Purchase, New York
1998-9          Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1998             Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1993-97        Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1995-96        Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art, Connecticut
1990-92        The Cooper Union, New York
1989-90        The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Selected Collections
Chase Manhattan Bank
IBM Corporation
Neuberger and Berman
The New Museum Impermanent Collection
Prudential Insurance Company
The University of Arizona

Guest Critic/Visiting Artist
Bard College, Graduate Program in the Arts
Brandeis University
Lafayette College
Massachusetts College of Art
The New York Studio School
Randolph-Macon Women's College
Rhode Island School of Design
University of Connecticut
Tyler School of Art
Virginia Commonweath University
Yale University School of Art Graduate Program

Education
1981       Graduate Program, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
              California Institute of the Arts
1974-78  BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art