LOU LAURITA

Born 1959 in New York. Currently lives and works in New York, NY.

Education

1981 Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY: BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Waterfalls , La Mama Galleria, New York, NY

2007 There’s A Party Going On, Guild & Greyshkul. New York, NY.

2006 You Are Okay , Spinello Gallery, Miami, FL.

2005 Doesn’t Everybody , Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY.

Now Feels Like Forever/Your Words Mean Nothing , Lou Laurita/Tawnie Silva, La Mama Galleria, New York, NY.

2004 Works On Paper , La Mama Galleria, New York, NY.

2003 Recent Works, La Mama Galleria

Group Exhibitions

2010 Brucennial, Bruce High Quiality Foundation, New York

2008 Idiolects , curated by Lumi Tam, BROWN, London

Art Actually, Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York, NY.

Caucus, Shroeder Romero, New York, NY

2007 Littlest Sister , curated by Claire Bruekel/Anthony Spinello, Spinello Gallery Miami, FL.

Sloganeers , DCAC, Washington DC

STUFF: International Contemporary Art from the collection of Burt Aaron , Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI

Little Boxes , Spinello Gallery, Miami, FL.

2006 If Say Hi I Will Kill You , Spinello Gallery, Miami, FL.

2005 The General’s Jamboree , Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY.

Looking AT Words: The Formal Use of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery , New York, NY.

A Knock at the Door , LMCC, New York, NY.

2002 In Place of Revolution, The Cooper Union, New York, NY.

2000 Burglar , Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY.

Curatorial Projects

2006 Advent , South Florida Arts Center, Miami, FL.

At Hand . LMCC, New York, NY.

2004 Ache, La Mama Galleria, New York, NY>

Bibliography

Cotter, Holland. “Lou Laurita: THERE’S A PARTY GOING ON”, The New York Times, July 27, 2007

Olson, Marisa. “Party Time” Rhizome.org, June 29, 2007

Shabaka, Onajide. “True Stories-You Are Okay”. Miami Art Exchange, October 23, 2006

Venart, Lynne. “Sloganeers@ DCAC” DCist.com, November 20, 2007.