Lauren E. Peters is a visual artist working with the concept and performance of identity through self-portraiture. She began creating within this genre for a small exhibit in 2016 after an extended hiatus from painting, and two years later won the “Emerging Artist” fellowship by the Delaware Division of the Arts. Lauren was the 2023 Delaware Individual Artist Fellow for Visual Arts: Painting, awarded the grant as an "Established Fellow." Peters has exhibited on a national level and is also active locally in her home state as a studio artist at The Delaware Contemporary. In the spring of 2024, Peters attended a residency at the Vermont Studio Center supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Lauren attended the Soaring Gardens Artist Residency in the summer of 2022, supported by the same grant. She was also awarded a month-long residency in the Hudson Valley at ChaShaMa's international program, ChaNorth, in May of 2024. Peters continues to grow as an artist and expand the world in which the portraits exist, and is supported at home by her husband, two cats, and a dog named Rosie.