Lauren Wy investigates the desiring body and psyche as a fractal narrative generated by embodied experience and manifested with process and color. Auto-theory frameworks, born from feminist writing and activism, inform her critical and artistic practice. Wy builds stories from fragments found in both real and digital spaces, focusing on the use of esoteric media to speak of the relationship between disclosure and exposure in the present and future climate and political crises. Her work centers on the femme, the animal, and the landscape as subjects, treating each with ennui and bacchanal chaos themes.
Lauren Wy (Los Angeles, 1987) received her MFA from Northwestern University in 2020. Prior to 2018, she inhabited the underground music scene in South Florida and Chicago, where she performed as a singer in a band and producer of animated music videos. Her series AUTODESIRE debuted in 2021, Chapter 9 Grift X of her project AUTODESIRE is in the permanent collection of Castello di Rivoli, Turin. Her solo exhibitions include those at Western Exhibitions, Chicago (2023, 2021); Société Interludio, Turin (2023); Musei Reali, Turin (2022). Her group exhibitions include those at Over the Influence, Los Angeles (2023); Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli - TO (2022); 6018 NORTH, Chicago (2022); Western Exhibitions, Miami Beach (2021); Practise Gallery, Oak Park (2020); Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich (2019); Apparatus Projects, Chicago (2019); Athens Biennale, Athens (2018); Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (2012).