Lauren Clay lives and works in New York. She received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007, and BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004. Her work has been widely exhibited nationally, including solo exhibitions at Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York; Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York; Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta; Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver; and Savannah College of Art and Design. She has created site specific installations for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY; Arts Brookfield, NY; and Paradise City, Seoul, South Korea. Clay is a 2019 recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Press includes The New York Times, Artforum, Artsy, Bomb Magazine, Hi Fructose, and the Washington Post. Clay’s editioned artist book, Subtle Body, published by Small Editions NY, 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.