Lauren Woods (she/her)

Lauren Woods (she/her) is an artist whose creative research focuses on embodied expression, nature’s consciousness and the transformative qualities of time. She works across various mediums, including painting, video and dance performances, and has exhibited her work in galleries across the US and internationally. Regionally, she has shown work at the Gadsden Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the Wiregrass Museum of Art. She has been recognized with a 2024 Individual Visual Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and a 2025 Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant from South Arts.

Born in Mobile, Alabama, Lauren received her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art after completing her BA in studio art at Spring Hill College. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Auburn University, where she teaches figure drawing and painting.

In addition to painting, she has worked in partnership with Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre under the direction of Billy Blanken and 10K Productions for the visual art direction of four live multimedia dance performances performed through Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City, NY. Their most recent collaboration, SMDT Season IV: An Evening of New Classics, was supported by a 2023 New Works Grant through the Queens Arts Fund.