Lauren Bergman | My Current Thoughts

Throughout my career my paintings have been explorations of societal issues as told through the female lens. Images of the idealized woman confronted the conflicting expectations of contemporary culture and the intricately complex ways in which we, as women, form our identities.

In the past five years my work has taken a significant turn. With the rise of intolerance and antisemitism, and the fall of a woman’s right to body autonomy, I am focused on lives that didn’t get to unfold. In remembering these girls and young women who were slaughtered, I hope to shine a light on what ultimately happens when hatred is allowed to flourish in society.

Biography

Beginning as a high school student, Lauren Bergman was involved in art classes at the Corcoran School of Art. Her talents and mature narratives quickly landed her gallery exhibitions in Washington, D.C. at Capricorn Gallery, exhibiting among renowned American realists, including Burton Silverman and Sondra Freckelton.

Bergman’s work has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Juxtapoz Magazine. She has had three solo exhibitions at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, which represented her for a decade. Other solo and two-person exhibitions include the Makor Gallery and Tria Gallery in New York and the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Her many group shows include Plus One Gallery in London, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and Jonathan Levine Gallery and Claire Oliver Fine Art in New York.  

Bergman grew up in the Washington metro area,  where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts and education from the Univeristy of Massachusets at Amherst, graduating summa cum laude, and her master’s degree at Smith College before relocating to Manhattan to study painting and design at FIT and The Art Students League. Bergman now lives in a converted pickled herring factory in the West Village and has a studio at Mana Contemporary.