Lauren Fensterstock, Academic Program Director
Lauren Fensterstock is a Maine-based artist and curator who joined the MFA in September 2010. Her recent work draws from the history of garden design to explore the impact of cultural position in the perception of natural environments. Lauren’s artwork has been featured in recent exhibitions at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME; San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, CA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, OR; Dorsky Gallery, NY; Kohler Art Center, WI; Portland Museum of Art, ME; DUMBO Art Center, NY; Boston Center for the Arts, MA; and Albany Airport, NY. Her work is represented by Aucocisco Gallery, Sienna Gallery, and Walker Contemporary.
Prior to her role in the MFA, Lauren served for three years as Interim Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art where she curated numerous projects including A Meticulous Ferment: Beth Lipman & Kirsten Hassenfeld, Arthur Ganson: Machines Contemplating Time, Lisa Young: Transcendence and Temporality, and thematic exhibitions Twilight and Exchange. In 2008 Lauren curated AFI: Upside Down, a multi-museum exhibition for the Benaki Museum and Pieros Street Annexe in Athens, Greece. Lauren has also worked as Director of the Hay Gallery in Portland, as Curator of the Saco Museum, and writer and regional editor for Art New England from 2005-7. Her writing has been published internationally, including “Permissable Pilfering” published by the Benaki Museum, Greece; “Judith Allen: Gathering Tiers” published by the Jill Yakas Gallery, Greece; and a recent short essay featured in Jim Campbell: Material Light, published by Hatje Cantz, Germany. Lauren has taught, lectured, and critiqued around the country including Maine College of Art, RISD, Mass Art, U Oregon at Eugene, SUNY New Paltz, Vermont College, and Bowdoin. She was honored to be named Maine’s 2010 Visual Arts Fellow by the Maine Arts Commission and holds degrees from The Parsons School of Design (BFA 1997) and SUNY New Paltz (MFA 2000).
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BFA, Parsons School of Design
MFA, SUNY New Paltz
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