Heavy Focus
The Assistants
A Prop, Grip or Hold
Lazy Susan
Ley Lines
You Look So
Yeux You
Wallflower
Lag Time
Looking at Modern Art
postures and slips
Breathing Under the Door
Tender Machines
Psychic Garden
A Body Cannot Be Solved
Double Blowout
Load Capacity
You Look So
Psychic Garden
Broken Horse
Second Skin Third Hand
Arrangements
Heavy Focus
Holds
postures and slips
Soft Landing
Recent News

Synchronicities: Intersecting Figuration with Abstraction. Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Opening January 2025


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Alterations. Photographic Center Northwest. 2024




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In The Artist's Words. Interview with Associate Curator Georgia Erger. Frye Art Museum



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ABOUT
Laura Hart Newlon is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator whose recent work explores materiality and conditions of visibility related to the body and image-making. Newlon has exhibited her work at various museums, galleries and artist-run spaces nationally, with recent exhibitions at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha), the Frye Art Museum (Seattle), the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), Specialist (Seattle), the Bellevue Art Museum (Bellevue), SOIL (Seattle) and the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts (Providence). 

Her work is included in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection and Photographic Center Northwest. Honors include the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artists, the John Quincy Adams Fellowship, and residencies at Arts, Letters and Numbers; Centrum; Photoworks; the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wassaic Project. Newlon holds an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013) and an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Washington (2010). She lives in Vancouver, BC where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Emily Carr University, and parents two young kids who love MadLibs and digging holes.
EXHIBITIONS
  • 2025 Synchronicities: Intersecting Figuration with Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
  • 2024 The Carpenter and the Gardener, Behnke Gallery
  • 2024 Heavy Focus, Anatolia International Film Festival
  • 2024 Alterations, Photographic Center Northwest
  • 2024 Vertical Hold, Punch Gallery
  • 2024 On Going, Gallery 312
  • 2023 A prop, grip or hold, Frye Art Museum
  • 2023 Out of Sight, Fisher Pavilion
  • 2023 Heavy Focus, Bridge Video & Film Festival
  • 2022 Coffin Farm Summer Show


PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
Art Connect – Meet the Artist
In the Artist’s Words: Frye Art Museum
Boren Banner Series: Laura Hart Newlon
Photoworks Takeover
A New Nothing
Primal Sight
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