Laura Owens

Laura Owens (born 1970 in Euclid, Ohio) is an American painter who emerged in the late 1990s from the Los Angeles Art Scene. She is best known for large-scale paintings that combine a variety of art historical references and painterly techniques. In 2013, turned her studio work space into an exhibition space called 356 Mission, in collaboration with art dealer, Gavin Brown, and soon after, hosting a second location for the art bookstore Ooga Booga—the venue has exhibited artists such as Elaine Sturtevant and Alex Katz.

Owens received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. In 1994 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

In 2013, Owens exhibited 12 new paintings in a building she found on Mission Road, across the river from Downtown Los Angeles. Owens continues to run 356 Mission as an exhibition space in collaboration with Gavin Brown and Wendy Yao.

In 2015, Owens made paintings based on World War II-era newspaper stereotype plates she discovered underneath the shingle siding of her Los Angeles home. Like much of her recent work, the paintings combined traditional oil paint with screen printed images digitally manipulated in Adobe Photoshop.

In addition to painting, Owens also creates artists' books.

She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She is represented by Gavin Brown Enterprise, Sadie Coles Headquarters, and Galerie Gisela Capitain.

In 2003 she had her first survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Owens’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna (2015); Kunstmuseum Bonn (2011); Bonnefanten Museum (2007); Kunsthalle Zürich (2006); Camden Arts Centre, London (2006); Milwaukee Art Museum (2003); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2003); and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, (2001). She was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2004 and again in 2014. In 2015 Laura Owens showed new paintings in the exhibition Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World at the Museum of Modern Art.

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