Education
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College 1979
Bronxville, N.Y.
M.A. Program 1984-86
City College CCNY New York, N.Y.
Awarded the Goodman Fellowship for Poetry 1985
New York Studio School Drawing Marathon NY NY June 1996
Professional
Director of the Jules Olitski Family Estate
Vice Chair of the Jules Olitski Art Foundation
Solo Exhibitions
1985 “Lauren Olitsky’s Drawings” Greenfields Cafe, Brooklyn, N.Y. Nov-Dec
1996 “Bare-New Work by Lauren Olitski”, Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, Vt. Oct 4-27
1997 “Lauren Olitski, Recent Work”, Curated by John Bross Sept 2 - 27, 1997Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, Ma.
1999 “Lauren Olitski New Paintings” Long Fine Art, New York, NY May 6 - June 5, 1999
“Island Vision-An Exhibit of Island Landscapes” Collected Works Brattleboro, VT Nov 5- Dec 31
2000 “Lauren Olitski New Paintings” Long Fine Art, New York, NY Oct 5-Nov 5
2001 “Lauren Olitski” Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Fl April 5-30
“Lauren Olitski” Gallery One, Toronto May 26 - June 14
2002 “January Heat, Recent Paintings by Lauren Olitski Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA May 22- July 7
“Lauren Olitski” CW White Gallery, Portland, Me Aug 7 -Sept 21
2005 “Lauren Olitski New Paintings” Donna Tribby Fine Art, W.Palm Beach, Fl March 9- April 10
2007 “Under the Snow- New Work by Lauren Olitski” Amy E Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center for Performing Arts, Burlington VT Jan 5-Mar 3rd
“Lauren Olitski” Gallery One, Toronto, Ont. Mar 31-Apr
2008 “Lauren Olitski-Views of the Water”, Chi-Lin Gallery Meredith, NH Aug 1- Sept 9, 2008(extended thru Oct)
2009 “Lauren Olitski Water Paintings”, Chi-Lin Gallery Meredith NH August 7- Sept 13
2010 “Summer Work -New Paintings by Lauren Olitski “ Chi-Lin Gallery Meredith NH Aug 8- Sept
2014 “Lauren Olitski: Warm Up”, Baker Sponder Gallery Boca Raton Fla Mar 13 – Apr 9, 2014
2015 “ Lauren Olitski - Painting From Nature” Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts Brattleboro, VT May 28-June 28
2017 "Lauren Olitski- Figure 1993-2017" Curated by Lisa Mendelsund 118 Gallery Brattleboro, VT October 5-30, 2017
2021 "Lauren Olitski - On Edge", Marlboro Community Center, August 18 - Sept 12th, 2021
“Lauren Olitski - Seasonal”, Brattleboro Music School Sept 15, 2021- Sept 2022
Two Person Exhibitions
2007 “Knocking at the Door Lauren Olitski and Jim Walsh” Sideshow Gallery April 28- May 28
2008 “ Jim Walsh and Lauren Olitski” Gallery 2 Vermont Artisan, Brattleboro, VT January 2 - Feb
Three Person Exhibitions
1995 “Mia Scheffy, Lauren Oliski, Terry Sylvester” Windham Art Gallery Brattleboro, VT Aug 4 - Aug 27
1999 “Williamson, Olitski, Colligan” Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, VT June 4- 28
2002 “Interpreting Landscapes- Lauren Olitski, Kris Calnan, David Putnam” Thorne Sagendorph Gallery Keene State College Keene, NH Sept 3-Oct 13
2005 "Studies in Abstraction Lauren Olitski, Susan Roth, Ann Walsh Oct 24th- Nov 3rd, Student Union Gallery U Mass Amherst, Ma
2007 “The Olitskis on Bear Island - Eve, Lauren and Jules “ Chi Lin Gallery Meredith, NH Aug 17-Sept 27,
2007-8 “Julie Durkin, Lauren Olitski , and Julia Whitney Barnes” Mulry Fine Art West Palm Beach, Fl Dec 1, 2007 - Jan 5, 2008
2012 “Color And Edge: Lauren Olitski, Susan Roth, Ann Walsh”, Sideshow Gallery Brooklyn, NY March 31 – May 06, 2012
traveled to Drury Gallery Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT July 12-Sept 12, 2013
Group Exhibitions
1994-1999 Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, Vt.
1995 Penny Pitou Estate, Gilford, N.H.
1995-1997 Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Vt.
1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene, NH
1996 CS Schulte Gallery, Milburn, N.J.
Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, Vt.
1996, 1997, 1999, Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, Vt
1997 The Art Guild, Farmington, Ct
1998 West Village Meeting House, Brattleboro, Vt.
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Ma
1999- 2002 Long Fine Art, New York
1999- 2001 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton Four Corners, R.I.
2001- 2003 CW White Gallery, Portland, Me.
2002 Chaos Gallery, Wilmington, Vt
2003 Perrella Gallery, Johnstown, NY
2004 Hudson Opera House, Hudson NY
2004 McIninch Gallery, SNHU , Manchester, NH
2006- 2017 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 FLOW Miami Invitational Art Fair -Mulry Fine Art at the Dorset Hotel Miami Beach, FL.
2007-2008 Mulry Fine Art, West Palm Beach, Fl
2010 Eclipse Gallery, North Adams, MA
2014-2015 Chi-Lin Gallery, Meredith, NH
2015 Baker Sponder Gallery, Boca Raton, Fl
2015 Mitchell Giddings Fine Art, Brattleboro, VT
2016 118 Elliot Gallery, Brattleboro, Vt “Big Stitches, Rough Cuts, Nothing Nice” Curated by Lisa Mendelsund Mar 11 -13, 2016
2016-17 Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT “Luscious” curated by Mara Williams, October 28, 2016 - February 6, 2017
2020 The Sanger Gallery, Studios of Key West, Key West, Fl "Liminal,Amanda Church, Paula De Luccia, Beth Kaminstein,
Lauren Olitski, Leslie Parke", Nov 11-26, 2020 11-5-26, 2020
Selected Public Collections
Sam & Adele Golden Foundation New Berlin, NY
Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington DC
Galeria Metta, Madrid, Spain
McInich Gallery, Southern NH University, Manchester, NH