Lauren McKee

Education

2014          BFA Northern Illinois University - Painting/2D studio-art Cum Laude

2017          MA Eastern Illinois University 

2019          MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art

Honors/Residencies:

2010          NIU Leaders and Scholars Scholarship

2014          Launch Invitational Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition

Group Shows:

2025     Charleston Arts CAN Council, Charleston Takes Flight, Charleston IL

    Scrap, Purple Window Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL

    Alumni Art Exhibition, Table Museum of Art, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2024     Window Shopping, Purple Window Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL

    Charleston Arts CAN council, Holiday Auction, Charleston, IL

2023     Charleston Arts CAN council, Holiday Auction, Charleston, IL2019

2019 Cranbrook Academy of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum

2018         The Treachery of Images, Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Academy of Art Forum Gallery

Receipt Drawings 2, Total Carbs, Instagram-Based Project Space

2017        MA Thesis Show, Tarble Museum of Art, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston IL

2014         Juried Blick Art Materials Ars Nova Exhibition, DeKalb, IL, NIU Jack Olson Gallery

              -- Juror Sergio Gomez, Director of Exhibitions at Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago

              NIU BFA Thesis Exhibition, DeKalb, IL, NIU Jack Olson Gallery

              Solo Exhibition, Jackson Avenue Coffee, Charleston IL

2013          Annual Juried Blick Art Materials Ars Nova Exhibition, DeKalb, IL, NIU Jack Olson Gallery                -- Juror Philip Soosloff, Professor of Art at Rockford College

              Free Radicals, Dekalb Gallery 215

2012          Show Off! A One Night Stand, DeKalb, Neptune gallery