Artist bio
Laura Ferguson is a New York artist whose drawings, prints, and artist's books have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in New York and around the country, including the Museum of Science in Boston, the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC, and the Chicago Cultural Center. Her work is represented in the collections of the National Library of Medicine and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. In 2008 she became Artist in Residence at the NYU School of Medicine, where she teaches anatomy drawing to medical students and uses the 3D Imaging Lab and the Anatomy Lab as sources for the anatomical imagery in her own art.
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Selected exhibitions
New York University School of Medicine
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
Museum of Science, Boston MA
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington DC
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
Center for Book Arts, NYC
Noho Gallery, New York, NYC
Woodward Gallery, NYC
Abecedarian Gallery, Denver CO
Cornell University Medical Library, NYC
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NYC
The United Nations, NYC
Lincoln Center Cork Gallery, NYC
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia PA
Edward Hopper House, Nyack NY
Smith Farm Center for Art and Healing, Washington DC
Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs NY
Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington VA
Penn State University, Hershey PA
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI
Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, NYC
Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, IA
Selected Public Presentations
“Drawing and Dissection: Ways of Understanding the Human Body,” The Humanities Initiative, NYU, New York NY, 2010
Guest artist, History of Medicine seminar, Yale University, New Haven CT
“Body Language,” Society for Disability Studies, conference at Baruch College, NYC, 2008
“Imagining and Imaging the Disabled Self,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, 2006
“Images of the Less-Than-Perfect Body,” National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington DC, 2004
“Notions of the Norm: Modeling and Remodeling the Self,” College Art Association, NYC, 2000
“Bodyworks,” Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia PA, 1994
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 Langone Medical Center, Ehrman Medical Library, New York, NY
VSA arts Collection, Washington, DC
Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, Schenectady, NY
Museum of Modern Spinal Surgery, Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Memphis, TN
Zimmer, Inc., Warsaw, IN
Education, Study, and Selected Medical Collaborations
New York University Langone Medical Center/School of Medicine, 3D Imaging Lab:
• work with 3D digital scan imagery, 2000-2003, 2008-ongoing
• Anatomy Lab drawing, 2008-ongoing
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Anatomy Lab drawing, 2000-04
Irene Dowd Studio, New York: anatomy study and drawing from the skeleton, 1993-present
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1976-78, illustration and design
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 1975-76, graphic design
Brandeis University, Waltham MA, 1967-69, BA 1969
Brown University, Providence RI, 1965-67
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