Bio

Cautionary tales embodied by humorous odd figures in dystopian landscapes populate Fader’s recent work. Macabre humor suggests the grim reality of our current human condition while offering a dreamy, narcotic alternative.

Laurie Fader has been awarded a Pamela Joy Johnson Southern Visual Fellowship by the MacDowell Foundation, two Great Meadows Foundation awards, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation emergency award, and a Helen Winternitz Award for excellence in painting from Yale School of Art. She has participated in residencies including the MacDowell Colony, Jentel Foundation, Willapa Bay AIR, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the American Academy in Rome, Scuola Grafica di Venezia, The International School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy, the Alfred & Trafford Klotz Residency in France, and a painting fellowship in Haiti.

Her recent exhibitions include the Lockwood Gallery in Hudson, NY, Susan Eley Gallery in Hudson, NY, Cavalier Gallery in NY, Cody Gallery in Arlington, VA, Radiator Gallery in Long Island City, NY, Carter Burden Gallery, and First St Gallery in Chelsea.

Fader has a B.S. from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. She held teaching positions at Pratt Institute, MICA, Goucher College and was Chair and co-founder of The Kentucky College of Art and Design at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.

She resides in Roswell, New Mexico as a fellow at the RAIR Foundation for a year.