Biography
Laura Spector is a Fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Individual Grant Recipient of the Houston Art Alliance. In 2020, she received an Artist-In-Residence from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including The Jung Center Houston (2022, 202), The Johann-Friedrich Danneil Museum in Germany (2018), ArtPrize 8 at Grand Rapids Art Museum (2016), FotoFest 2014, Lawndale Center for the Arts “Big Show” (2017, 2013), and the Sovereign Art Foundation in Hong Kong (2011). Her work has been published in The Harvard Review, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!, and the book The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art by Wendy Steiner.
Spector has studied fine art at both The Flemish Classical Atelier in Brugge and Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2016, she was a resident artist in Germany at AtelierHaus Hilmsen and was a presenter at The Representational Art Conference (TRAC) in 2014. She currently resides in Houston, teaching painting and drawing from her studio and at the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice.