lauren woods

Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Departments/Programs

Fine Arts

Degrees

San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A.
University of North Texas, B.A.

Expertise

Interdisciplinary/Post-studio Art; Institutional Critique; Social and Public Practice; Cultural Organizing; Monuments and Public Memory; Public Art; Video Art; Film Art; Conceptual Art; Performance Art

Profile

lauren woods is a conceptual artist whose interdisciplinary projects—film, video and sound installations, socially-engaged public interventions, and site-specific work—engage history and sociopolitical systems to critique structures of power. Her primary research traces racial histories in the built environment through monument/memorial work. Driving woods' critical and creative inquiry, is the question of how best to translate the practice of traditional monument-making into new contemporary objects of public memory that serve the movement for racial and historical justice.

Born in Kansas City, MO and raised in Dallas, TX, woods holds a BA in Radio, Television and Film and a BA in Spanish with a sociology minor from the University of North Texas. In 2006, she received her Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Miami as well as Puerto Rico, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Mali and France. She has been the recipient of grants and awards from institutions such as Creative Capital, The Tribeca Film Foundation, College Art Association, Alliance of Artists Communities and the San Francisco Foundation.

Courses Taught

FA	8a	Introduction to Video Art
FA	118a	Studio Seminar
FA	119b	Professional Practice in Art

Scholarship

woods, lauren, Cynthia Mulcahy. Dallas Historical Parks Project. 2021. City of Dallas, Dallas. (Public Historical Marker Project). (forthcoming)

woods, lauren, Kimberli Meyer, David Familian. American Monument Online Database. Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine (forthcoming)

woods, lauren. Drinking Fountain #2. 2021. Dallas County Records Building, Dallas. (Monument). (forthcoming)

woods, lauren. Photo Flux: Unshuttering L.A.. Group Show, Postponed due to pandemic. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. (forthcoming)

woods, lauren. Nasher Mixtape. Group Show, February 6, 2021 - September 26, 2021. Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.

woods, lauren. "FICTIONS & FUTURES: American Monument." Creative Time Summit X. The Great Hall Cooper Union: New York, NY. 11/14/2019.

woods, lauren. "Keynote: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Memory and Monumentality." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Dallas, TX. 03/22/2019.

woods, lauren. "Keynote: Notes on Public Memory and Process." Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference. Irvine, CA. 11/08/2019.

woods, lauren. "Keynote: Process as Material." Now + There’s Public Art Accelerator Forum. Boston, MA. 10/24/2020.

woods, lauren. American Monument 22/2019. 2020. Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA. (Intermedia Nomadic Monument).

woods, lauren. American Monument Think Tank Marathon at the University of California, Irvine. 2020. Beall Center for Art and Technology and UCI Law’s Center for Law, Equality, And Race, Irvine, CA. (Social Sculpture of scholars, lawyers, community activists, civil rights leaders, students, artists, and the public processing and discussing police brutality and other issues addressed by the monument.).