Lauren Boilini was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. She received her B.F.A. in Painting and Art History at the Kansas City Art Institute and her M.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art. As a painter she also works in installation and public art, completing exhibitions and projects up and down both coasts. Traveling to and participating in artist residencies has been an important part of her practice. She has served as an artist-in-residence at Can Serrat in Spain, Jentel Arts in Wyoming, Soaring Gardens in Pennsylvania, the Studios of Key West, the Creative Alliance and School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, and as a Consortium Resident at the Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. She was invited as an artist-in-residence to the Burren College of Art in Ireland and received a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in 2012. She has completed public art projects for the Maryland Department of Public Health and the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport. In 2016 she was awarded a grant to publish a book of drawings and spent the summer of 2019 as an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA working on the sequel, which she completed for a solo exhibition at Furman University in South Carolina in 2020. In the winter of 2022 she opened a solo exhibition at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma and began work on the third in a trilogy of artist books this past spring while artist-in-residence at Amazon’s headquarters. This fall she worked with the Open AIR program in Montana as the first artist-in-residence at the Missoula Butterfly Museum. She is looking forward to a residency on Vashon Island, WA, in the summer of 2024, and was recently awarded a fellowship from the McMillen Foundation.
In addition, she currently teaches studio art and art history at The Evergreen State College. Collaborations with a number of different artists in her close-knit community have been vital to the development of her work and she looks forward to future opportunities to expand that practice. Lauren is also a marathon open water swimmer and with her immediate family close by, she loves to call Seattle home.
