Laura Ferguson: Resumé
One-person exhibitions
2004-06 “Laura Ferguson: The Visible Skeleton Series,” National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC
2003 “Selections from The Visible Skeleton Series,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;
Penn State University Robeson Gallery, University Park, PA and College of Medicine/Medical Center, Hershey, PA
1999 “The Consciousness of the Body,”
DTW Gallery at Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
1994 “Drawing the Red-Cloaked Figure,” Noho Gallery, New York, NY
1991 “Body & Light,” Noho Gallery, New York, NY
1990 “Collages, Drawings, Marble Paintings,” Independent Arts Gallery, Jamaica, NY
Selected group exhibitions
2005 “Beyond the X-ray,” Museum of Science, Boston, MA
2003 “Beyond Reading: Book Arts,” Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2003 “Works on Paper,”
Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs, NY
2003 “Focus on the Figure,” Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY
2002 “Paper Invitational 5,” Woodward Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “Pencil: Laura Ferguson & Jeanette Martone,” MMC Gallery, Marymount College, New York, NY
2001-03 “eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art,” Herbst International Exhibition Center, San Francisco, CA; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; United Nations, New York. NY; National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC; Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA; and other venues
2000 “Naked,” Knickerbocker Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “Arts & Healing,” Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
1997 “ArtLab” Invitational, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1996 “6th Annual Medical Complex Art Show,” Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY
1994 “Bodyworks,” Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA
1994 “The Anthropomorphic Book,” Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
1994 “The Heart of the Woman,” Noho Gallery, New York, NY
1990 “5 on Paper,” Noho Gallery,
New York, NY
Public and Corporate Collections
National Library of Medicine, Washington, DC
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Rosemont, IL
New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Spinal Surgery, Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Memphis, TN
VSA arts Collection, Washington, DC
Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, Schenectady, NY
Zimmer, Inc., Warsaw, IN
Commissions
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Scoliosis Research Society
Public Presentations
2004 “Images of the Less-Than-Perfect Body,” public program at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC
“Body image and spinal deformity: a patient/doctor dialogue,” NMHM, Washington, DC
2003 “The Visible Skeleton: Art, Medicine and Individuality,” public lecture,
Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI
2003 “Drawing the Unusual Body,” Society for Disability Studies annual conference, Bethesda, MD
2003 Arts & Health Outreach Initiative, Penn State University, Hershey, PA
2003 Hibbs Society, Quebec, Canada
2003 National Scoliosis Foundation conference, Randolph, MA
2001 “The Limits of Artistic Freedom: Women Artists and Censorship,” panel with Amei Wallach, Nancy Spero, Carolee Schneeman, sponsored by the National Coalition Against Censorship, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2000 “Notions of the Norm: Modeling and
Remodeling the Self,” College Art Association annual conference, panel moderated by Bettyann Kevles and Joyce Cutler Shaw, New York, NY
Education, Study, and Medical Collaborations
Anatomy study, medical research, and collaborative work with medical imaging,1992-present: Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York University Medical Center, and Irene Dowd Studio, in New York, NY; the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, DC
Graphics and design, 1975-78: Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
B.A., 1969: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1965-67: Brown University, Providence, RI
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