Los Angeles-based artist Lauren Halsey has been signed to the roster of the mega-gallery Gagosian, which will share representation with David Kordansky Gallery. Gagosian will feature Halsey in a solo show at its Paris location next year, another milestone for the rapidly rising artist, who was featured in The Artsy Vanguard 2019.
Born in 1987, Halsey made a name for herself with her immersive installations that bridge sculpture and architecture, as well as her graphically maximalist collages. Her work is deeply rooted in South Central Los Angeles, where her family has lived for generations. She recontextualizes locally significant public expressions like flyers, murals, and signs, which serve as both a celebration and an archive of Black culture. Earlier this year, she installed an Afrofuturist 22-foot-tall temple-like structure on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art which included Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and sphinxes, as well as references to contemporary Black vernacular phrases and imagery.
Halsey earned her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from Yale University in 2014. She has had several notable exhibitions, including her first solo exhibition in Europe, “Too Blessed 2 be Stressed!” at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. The representation comes ahead of her solo exhibition at London’s Serpentine Galleries, slated for October 2024.
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