Lauren Clay (b. 1982, Brookhaven, Mississippi) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007, and BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art in 2004. Recent exhibitions include “While Sleeping, Watch” at Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, and “Windows and Walls” at Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York. In 2019 she created a collaborative installation with Peter Halley titled “QUBE” which was exhibited at Galerija Kula in Split, Croatia. In 2019 Clay’s site-specific installation Cenotaph was included in Peter Halley’s solo project, “Heterotopia I” in Venice, Italy, in conjunction with the Venice Biennale.

Her work has been reviewed in Art Forum, The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, Artsy, and the Washington Post. Clay was a 2019 recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, and a 2020 recipient of a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her editioned artist book, Subtle Body, is included in the library collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The National Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art.