Christina Laurel - artist creating installations, working in paper. Exhibited in US; Artist-in-Residence at South Porch Artists, Summerville, SC; ArtRez, Newnan, GA; Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; Hambidge Center for the Arts, Rabun Gap, GA; Paducah Arts Alliance, Paducah, KY; and award-winning; grant recipient.
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BS Studio Art, 2009, The College at Brockport SUNY
additional studies: University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

AWARDS & GRANTS
1st and 2nd place, "Inspired by Greer" exhibition, City of Greer Center for the Arts, SC, 2024
Project Support Grant for Artist-in-Residence with PAA, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, 2014
Honorable Mention, "Edo Influence 4," 41st Annual Juried Exhibition, Artists Guild of Spartanburg, 2014
Strategic Opportunity Stipend, NYFA/NYSCA, Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, 2011
Juror’s Award, Rochester Area Colored Pencil Club at Barnes & Noble, 2007
Stephanie Aldersley Purchase Award, Rochester Contemporary 2007 members’ exhibit

ARTIST RESIDENCY
South Porch Artists Residency, Summerville, SC, October 2022; ArtRez, Newnan, GA, April 2017; Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, September-October 2016; Hambidge Center for the Arts, Rabun Gap, GA, November 2015; Paducah Arts Alliance, Paducah, KY, October 2014

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
New York, South Carolina, Maryland, Kentucky, California, Georgia

INSTALLATIONS
Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, SC, Christina Laurel solo exhibit & installation, February 17-March 24, 2022
William King Museum of Art, Abingdon, VA, Refugium, February 3-May 29, 2022
Converse College, Milliken Art Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, Refugium, August 26-September 23, 2021
Appalachian State University/Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, Refugium, December 4, 2020-May 1, 2021
Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, SC, Refugium: Gingko, September 11-October 26, 2018
Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC, Paper Worlds, September 21-December 10, 2017
Limestone College, Gaffney, SC, Emergent: a lily pad installation, August 15-October 20, 2017
Riverworks Gallery, Greenville Technical College, Refugium, March 10-April 17, 2016
Studio Mars, Paducah Arts Alliance, Artist-in-Residence, Postcards from Paducah, October 24, 2014
Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY: Lab Space, Ethereality, October7-November 14, 2011
Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery, Red House Arts Center, Syracuse, NY: Layers: kimonos & fans,  July 21-September 1, 2011; Artist Talk August 18; WCNY Arts Talk interview July 10; Post Standard review August 8
A Different Path Gallery, Brockport, NY: Art with Asian Influence, with Evelyn Kitson, October 8-November 1, 2010
The College at Brockport SUNY, West Side Student Gallery: Paper, Memories, September 30-October 15, 2009

EXHIBITIONS
City of Greer Center for the Arts, SC: the fifth season solo exhibit, August 1-September 16, 2024
Open Studios of Greenville: November 12-13, 2022 -and- One Stop Open Studios at MAC
Artists Collective, Spartanburg, SC: Interconnect,  July 5-August 27, 2022
Pickens County Museum of Art & History: 39th Annual SC Juried Competition, October 26-December 17, 2021
Blue Ridge Arts Council, Seneca, SC: Juried Exhibition, January 15-February 25, 2021
Artists Collective, Spartanburg, SC: The Art of Survival, January 5-February 27, 2021
Pendleton Square Artists Coop Gallery, Pendleton, SC: solo exhibit, April 1-May 1, 2019
Aiken Center for the Arts, Westinghouse Gallery, Aiken, SC, Survivor & Remnants, September 11-October 26, 2018
Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC: Direct Experience: Emergent, Lily Pad installation, September 13-October 31, 2019; 43rd Annual Juried Show, April 13-May 31, 2018
Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC: Direct Experience: cancer and art, January 12-February 23, 2018
Tower Gallery, The College at Brockport SUNY, Brockport, NY: Alumni Exhibition, September 5-October 13, 2017
Arts Center of Clemson, Clemson, SC: Juried Art Exhibition, September 14-October 27, 2017
The Gallery at Flat Rock, NC: Temporal Witness with Alice Ballard and Rosamond Purcell, April 13-May 14, 2017
Metroplitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC: Remnants, January-February 2017
Geisel Gallery, Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY: Three Views, with Stephen Merritt, Jonathan Merritt, December 2015
Artists' Guild Gallery - Chapman Cultural Center, Spartanburg: Laurel: Retrospective and Recent, June 1-27, 2014
Metropolitan Arts Council: One Stop Open Studios Retrospective: 2024, 2023, 2018, 2016, 2015
Open Studios of Greenville: November 2-3, 2014 -and- One Stop Open Studios at MAC: May-June 2014
Artists' Guild Gallery of Greenville: Juried Small Works Exhibition, October 1-31, 2013
Artists' Guild of Spartanburg: 40th Annual Juried Show, September 3-October 13, 2013
Pickens County Museum of Art & History: 38th Annual SC Juried Competition, October 27-December 18, 2020; invitational exhibition Connecting Concept and Medium: Fiber Art in SC, September 7-November 14, 2013 
Stephen Merritt's Studio, Rochester, NY: Art in June, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
High Falls Art Gallery, Rochester, NY: Rochester Art Supply Invitational Art Show, September 16-November 4, 2011
Anderson Alley Artists: First Fridays 2011; Holiday Gala 2010
ARENA Art Group: Members, Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, September 13-October 7, 2011; 60/20 Virtual Exhibition, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, January 13-14, 2011; DA Different Path Gallery, August 27-September 27, 2010; NTID/RIT Dyer Arts Center, July 2-August 14, 2010; Booksmart Gallery Kunstler, December 4-23, 2009; Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, May 27-June 18, 2009; Syracuse Technology Gardens, January-April 2009; Cazenovia College Gallery, July 18-27, 2009; Roberts Wesleyan College Davison Gallery, August 1-22, 2008; ARTWalk, April 2008; Williams Art Gallery, October 10-November 26, 2007; Sonnenberg Arts in the Garden, 2009, 2007
Gilded Square Picture Framing, Rochester, NY: Body by the Numbers, solo exhibit, October 9-November 6, 2009
Memorial Art Gallery/Lucy Burne Gallery: Creative Workshop Faculty, 2011, 2010, 2009
The College at Brockport SUNY/Tower Art Gallery: Synesthesia student exhibition, April-May 2009
Bank-on-Art: Finger Lakes Regional Arts Council, Geneva, NY: May-July 2009
gallery r/RIT, Rochester, NY: r Connection – regional juried student exhibit, January 15-February 21, 2009
Rochester Art Club: Arts & Cultural Council Gallery for Greater Rochester, April 2-25, 2008; Barnes & Noble, November 3-29, 2007
Rochester Area Colored Pencil Club: 1570 Gallery, March-April 2008; Barnes & Noble, October 2007
Williams Gallery, Rochester, NY: Layers, with Michelle Michael, June 29-August 27, 2007Little Café, Rochester, NY: Color, April 5-May 5, 2007
Anderson Alley Artists, Rochester, NY: Little Café, September 22-October 19, 2007; Arts & Cultural Council Gallery for Greater Rochester, March 7-29, 2007; Second Saturdays, 2005-10
Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY: member exhibit, 2010-2005
Renaissance Art Gallery, Rochester, NY: 2006, 2007
American Association of University Women, Rochester, NY: Kimonos & Fans, June-July 2005
Center at High Falls, Rochester, NY: Abstraction, July-September 2009; Line, June 200BOCES, Rochester, NY, 2009; pARTners, Pieters Family Life Center, 2008, 2010

ART INSTRUCTION
Greenville County Museum of Art, 2013-2022; Greenville Technical College/Corporate & Career Development, 2014; Spartanburg Art Museum, 2013-2014; Pickens Museum of Art & History, 2013-2014; Memorial Art Gallery/Creative Workshop, 2009-2012; A Different Path Gallery, Brockport, 2011; Otter Rock Studio, Fairport, 2010-2012; Rivers Run, 2010-2012; Legacy at Clover Blossom, 2011; BOCES, Rochester, NY, 2009; pARTners, Pieters Family Life Center, 2008, 2010

ART BLOG
"Postcards from Paducah," "Glimpses of Greenville," 2013-2014; Artkestry, 2011-2012

JUROR
Grants Panel, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, 2016, 2013; RACPC at Barnes & Noble, 2009; Mental Health Coalition’s Impression Gallery, 2007

PRESENTER
SC Arts Educators Assoc. Conference at GCMA, 2023-2022; Rochester Area Colored Pencil Club, 2012, 2008, 2007; Webster Art Club, 2011, 2006; Delta Kappa Gamma Society/Rochester Chapter, 2009; Brighton Memorial Library, 2009; Penfield Art Association, 2009; Irondequoit Art Club, 2009, 2008; Pittsford Art Club, 2008; Art Store, 2008; Our Lady of Mercy HS, 2008; Summit, Wolk Manor, Highlands, St. John’s Meadow, 2008; Cloverwood, 2007

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