Education
2005 MFA Studio Art
Mount Royal School of Art, Interdisciplinary Studies
Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, MD
2003 Certificate in Women’s Studies
University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati, OH
2002 BFA Fine Art, Concentration in Two-Dimensional Media
Painting, Drawing, Printmaking
University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
Awards
2011 Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council
2011 Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship, 2010-2011
2010 Artist Enrichment Grant, in collaboration with poet Carrie Green, Kentucky Foundation for Women
2010 Individual Artist Professional Development Grant, Kentucky Arts Council
2009 Economic Hardship Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women
2009 Second Place, Art Fever Juried Competition, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
2009 Feed 2009 Finalist, 1708 Gallery; Richmond, VA
2008 Artist Enrichment Grant, The Kentucky Foundation for Women
2008 Honorable Mention, 2nd Bi-Annual National Juried Exhibition of Small Works of Art; Todd Gallery,
MTSU, Juried by Dave Hickey
2007 Second Place, Art Fever Juried Competition, Lexington Art League
2005 Painting Award, Honorable Mention, Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, MD
2003-2005 Mount Royal Award Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, MD, Merit based
scholarship awarded annually
2003 Women’s Studies Undergraduate Award, Women’s Studies Department; University of Cincinnati Prize
given annually to one outstanding undergraduate in the Certificate program Awards
2002 Friends of Women’s Studies Mini-Grant, Women’s Studies Department, University of Cincinnati
Residencies
2012 James Rosenquist Artist Residency, North Dakota State University
2011 MacDowell Colony Visual Artist Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2010 Artist in Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2007 Artist In Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Unfunny, Memorial Union Gallery, North Dakota State University
2012 Pizza Is A Vegetable: an installation by Lori Larusso, commissioned by the Plains Art Museum; Fargo, ND
2011 Common Consequences: recent works by Lori Larusso, Indianapolis Art Center; Indianapolis, IN
2011 It’s Not My Birthday, That’s Not My Cake (Collaborative Installation with Carrie Green), Lucille Little Fine Arts Library, University of Kentucky; Lexington, KY
2011 TBA (upcoming), Indianapolis Art Center; Indianapolis, IN
2011 Spaces and Thick (upcoming), Parkland Art Gallery at Parkland College; Champaign, IL
2011 Cakeface, Mulberry & Lime; Lexington, KY
2011 The Situation Hesitates, Conkling Gallery at Minnesota State University; Mankato, MN
2010 It’s Not My Birthday, That’s Not My Cake; an interactive performance and installation, McColl Center
for Visual Art; Charlotte, NC
2010 The Situation Hesitates, Gallery of Art and Design at Metropolitan Community College; Omaha, NE
2010 Domestic Insecurities, Necessary Delights, Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore, MD catalog
2009 All There Is, Lucretia C. Begley Gallery; Columbia, KY
2009 Domestic Issues: New Work, The Webb School Gallery; Knoxville, TN
2008 Lori Larusso: Paintings, Dayton Visual Arts Center; Dayton, OH
2008 Leisurely Concern, a Jordan Faye Contemporary Exhibition at Casewerks; Baltimore, MD
2008 Leisure & Concern, 1305 Gallery; Cincinnati, OH
2008 Help Yourself, Community Art Center; Danville, KY
2007 Artworks on display at Sotheby’s, courtesy of Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Soap Fat, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University; Providence, RI
2006 Sadcake, 1305 Gallery; Cincinnati, OH
2005 The Whole and The Small, School 33 Art Center; Baltimore, MD
2002 Shared Goods, Publico; Cincinnati, OH
Select group exhibitions
2013 Armin Muhsam and Lori Larusso, The Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY (upcoming)
2012 The 53rd Midwestern Invitational Exhibition of Fine Art (upcoming), The Rourke Art Gallery Museum, MN
2012 artMRKT San Francisco, a Jordan Faye Contemporary exhibit; San Francisco, CA
2012 artXwomen, AAF LA, Porter Contemporary Booth, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Kentucky Visions at the Capitol, Capitol Building; Frankfort, KY
2011 Scope Miami: a Jordan Faye Contemporary exhibit, Miami, FL
2011 Yuletide 2011 , Gallery 1305; Cincinnati, OH
2011 Small Wonders and Spectaculars, Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore, MD
2011 Spotlight Exhibit of the 2012 Al Smith Fellowship and Emerging Artist Awards, Cornerstone Gallery, KY
2011 Splash!, Porter Contemporary; New York, NY
2011 Planting Houses, Building Trees (three person exhibition), Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore, MD
2011 TBA (upcoming two-person exhibition), Space15th; Seoul, South Korea
2011 26th Tallahassee International (upcoming), Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts
2011 Beinnial 26, South Bend Museum of Art; South Bend, IN
2011 Love and Things Like Love, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
2011 Pink, Studio 659; Whiting, IN
2011 Flora & Fauna, The 930 Art Center; Louisville, KY
2011 Suburbia, Platform; University of California Santa Barbara
2011 There’s No Place Like..., The Renaissance Center; Dickson, TN
2010 Yuletide 2010, Gallery 1305; Cincinnati, OH
2010 Small Wonders, Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore, MD
2010 12th Annual Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; Omaha, NE
2010 Art Fever, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
2010 Artist-in-Residence Fall 2010 Exhibition, McColl Center for Visual Art; Charlotte, NC
2010 The 12th Annual Renaissance Regional Art Exhibit, The Renaissance Center; Dickson, TN
2010 The House in My Head, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery; Cincinnati, OH
2010 Marks of Absence, Santo Foundation Invitational Exhibition (three-person exhibit), Fort Gondo; St.
Louis, MO
2010 2010 Water Tower Regional, Louisville VIsual Art Association; Louisville, KY
2009 Small Wonders, Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore, MD
2009 Yuletide 2009, 1305 Gallery; Cincinnati, OH
2009 Tiny Treasures, Gallery B; Lexington, KY
2009 Touch Faith, Semantics; Cincinnati, OH
2009 Vanity Affair, Maryland Art Place; Baltimore, MD
2009 The Shape of Things: Works by Mollie Oblinger, Analia Segal, and Lori Larusso, Claypool-Young Art
Gallery at Morehead State University; Morehead, KY
2009 ArtHamptons: The International Art Fair, Bridgehampton Historical Society Grounds, NY
2009 Sweet Show, Phyllis Stein Art; Los Angeles, CA
2009 Fresh Paint: New Paintings by Elizabeth Brady and Lori Larusso, Loads of Fun Studios; Baltimore, MD
2009 PaintPresent, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
2009 Same New Thing: Bobby Campbell, Stephen Dorsett & Lori Larusso, Tuska Center for Contemporary
Art at the University of Kentucky; Lexington, KY
2009 Freedom, Chautauqua Lecture Series Juried Art Exhibition; Eastern Kentucky University
2008 KY7 Biennial, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
2008 10th Annual Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Omaha, NE
2008 Bluegrass Biennial: A Kentucky Juried Exhibition, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State
University; Morehead, KY
2008 Real Party ‘08, Real Art Ways; Hartford, CT
2008 Drawing from the Source, Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore, MD
2008 Considerable (a traveling exhibition), Studio O, Artstreet; University of Dayton, Green Line Art Project;
Philadelphia, PA
2008 Space, Place, Life, Chautauqua Lecture Series Juried Art Exhibition; Eastern Kentucky University
2008 2nd Bi-Annual National Juried Exhibition of Small Works of Art, Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee State
University; Murfreesboro, TN, Juried by Dave Hickey, Catalogue
2007 Small Wonders, Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore, MD
2007 9th Annual Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Omaha, NE
2007 Art Fever, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
2007 Lori Larusso and Dawn Black, Harford Community College; Bel Air, MD
2007 Believe It: 14 Painters, Creative Alliance; Baltimore, MD
2006 Just Desserts, Brick Walk Fine Arts; West Hartford, CT
2006 Residue From The Bling-Bling Circus, Cubicle Ten; Washington DC
2006 Cul-de-Sac: Art from a Suburban Nation, Radford University Art Museum; Radford, VA, Catalogue
2005 Providence Design Collective, Downcity; Providence, RI
2005 OPTIONS 2005, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran; Washington DC, Curated by Libby Lumpkin,
Catalogue
2005 Hello Charm City, Gallery Imperato; Baltimore, MD
2005 Roy G. Biv, Goucher College; Towson, MD
2005 Arts’ 2005 MFA Biennial, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts; Wilmington, DE
2005 Trojan Horse, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Decker Gallery; Maryland Institute College of Art
2005 Six by Six: Miniature Art, Northern Kentucky University Art Galleries; Highland Heights, KY
2005 Hot Tamales, ArtLA; Los Angeles, CA, Curated by John Yau
2005 Artcard, Sharjah Art Museum; United Arab Emirates
2004 Setting the Table, Brick Walk Fine Art; West Hartford, CT
2004 The Painting Show, Publico; Cincinnati, OH_2004 Cubicle 10, Cubicle 10; Baltimore, MD
2004 Trevino/Larusso/Lewis, Kaufbar; Berlin, Germany
2004 Femme Effect, Sub Basement Art Studio; Baltimore, MD
2004 draw_drawing, London Biennial; London, England
2004 Season Greetings, Publico; Cincinnati, OH
2004 Feast or Famine, DNA; Provincetown, MA
2004 Delectable, Minas; Baltimore, MD, Curated by Jordan Faye Block Lectures and Presentations
2004 Student Union, Chidlaw Gallery; Cincinnati, OH_
2004 Connections, Semantics; Cincinnati, OH
2003 WINTERemix, Publico; Cincinnati, OH
2003 Lots of People Working, Semantics; Cincinnati, OH_2003 OKI: New Art Exhibitions Northern Kentucky
University Art Galleries; Highland Heights, KY
2003 AM Holiday, Southgate House; Covington, KY
2003 Nowhere Better Than This Place, S.S. Nova; Cincinnati, OH, Curated by Sue Spaid, Curator at
Cincinnati’s Contemporary Art Center
2003 Unnatural Habitat, University Hall Galleries; Cincinnati, OH
2002 Small Change, S.S. Nova; Cincinnati, OH
2002 Four, Semantics; Cincinnati, OH
2002 Women’s Work, Artery; Newport, KY
2002 Midden/Middle/Midair (two person exhibit), 840 Gallery; Cincinnati, OH
Lectures and Presentations
2012 2012 James Rosenquist Artist-In-Residence Lecture, North Dakota State University; Fargo, ND
2011 It’s Not My Birthday, That’s Not My Cake Chapbook Collaboration, Little/Gaines Artist Series; Niles Gallery at the University of Kentucky
2011 Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Visual Arts, Transylvania University; Lexington, KY
2011 High School Seminar at Parkland College, Champaign, IL
2011 Spaces and Thick (formal lecture and gallery talk), Parkland Art Gallery; Champaign, IL
2011 Planting Houses and Building Trees (gallery talk via Skype, Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore, MD
2011 The Situation Hesitates, Conkling Gallery at Minnesota State University Mankato
2010 The Situation Hesitates, Gallery of Art and Design at Metropolitan Comunity College; Omaha, NE
2010 The House In My Head Gallery Talk, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery; Cincinnati, OH
2009 All There Is, Lindsey Wilson College; Columbia, KY
2009 PaintPresent Art Talk, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
2008 KY7 Biennial Art Talk, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
2008 Gallery Talk: Lori Larusso & Kathleen Thum, Dayton Visual Arts Center; Dayton, OH
2007 Consumption & Domesticity, Harford Community College; Bel Air, MD, September 10, 2007
2007 Putting the Wow Into Now, Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts; Omaha, NE, July 5, 2007
2004 Gratuate Presentation, Mount Royal Graduate Student Seminar, Maryland Institute College of Art
Bibliography
2012 Interview: Lori Larusso, Elle Girl Korea, April 2012
2012 The meaning behind the words: Larusso’s work looks at labels on packaged food, NDSU Spectrum; Wednesday, March 7, 2012
2012 Pinturas troqueladas de los suburbios "bonitos, pero no tanto" de los Estados Unidos, 20minutos.es, Arttrend. February 22, 2012
2011 Review: Larusso’s ‘Common Consequences’, Nuvo: Indy’s alternative voice; December 12, 2011
2011 New Chapbook Celebrates Cake, North of Center; September 14, 2011
2010 25 Days of Gifts - #22, BaltimoreMagazine.net; December 21, 2010
2010 Featured Artist, Central Kentucky Lifestyle Magazine; August 15, 2010
2010 House in My Head Teases the Brain, Cincinnati.com; July 9, 2010
2010 The House In My Head (Review), CityBeat; Cincinnati, OH June 30, 2010
2010 Featured Art Review: Marks of Absence, Riverfront Times; Saint Louis, MO May 26,2010
2009 Decadent Feast, Calorie Free, Los Angeles Times April 7, 2009
2008 Surface Tensions: Home Is Where The Unease Is In The Paintings of Lori Larusso, CityPaper:Baltimore,
MD
2008 Consumerism, domesticity, injustice and food permeate Lexington artist’s paintings, The Advocate
Messenger; Danville, KY February 24, 2008
2006 Critters and Cakes are Stuffed with Meaning, The Cincinnati Enquirer; March 3, 2006
2005 DIY: Design it Yourself, Princeton Architectural Press
2005 At ‘Options 2005,’ Choose Wisely, The Washington Post; (Washington DC) October 14, 2005
2005 Lori Larusso: The Whole and The Small, Citypaper (Baltimore) May 4, 2005
2005 Best of Cincinnati, CityBeat; January 11, 2005
2004 Catch It, Baltimore Magazine, June 20 2004
2004 Best Bets, The Baltimore Sun; Thursday, May 6, 2004
2003 OKI at NKU - AOK, Artwhirled; September 14, 2003
2003 Brotherly Love, CityBeat; April 2, 2003
Commissions and Public Art
1994 Artwork on permanent display at Aultman Hospital, Pediatric Ward; Canton, OH
2010 Permanent Tapis Painting for the Legacy Trail, Lexington, KY
2010 M. David Properties; Charlotte, NC
Professional experience
2011 Visiting Artist, Parkland College; Champaign, IL,
2011 Witness Program Artist, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY,
2011 Visiting Artist, Minnesota State University Mankato
2010 Visiting Artist, Metropolitan Comunity College; Omaha, NE
2009 Guest Artist, The Salon at Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore, MD
2009 Witness Program Artist, Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
2009 Visiting Artist, Lindsey Wilson College; Columbia, KY, Position included lecture, critique, and
exhibition in the Lucretia C. Begley Gallery
2009 Visiting Artist, Morehead State University, Department of Art, Position included lectures and
exhibition in the Claypool-Young Art Gallery
2009 Visiting Artist In Residence, Webb School, Knoxville, TN, Awarded six week program involving
independent studio time with provided facilities, and repeated critique and interaction with lower,
middle, and upper school art students
06-07 Office Manager, Women’s Medical Center of Rhode Island, Duties included managing office staff,
training new employees, counseling, and unconditionally, advocating women and their reproductive
choices.
2006 Freelance Graphic Designer, Logo development and design, identity, brochure, letterhead, signage.
2005 Graphic Designer, MaggieMoo’s International, LLC, Columbia, MD, Responsible for research and
development regarding various seasonal campaigns and the implementation and design of all
materials. Common material development includes email, print, signage, Web site, menus, etc. All
materials are designed in house. Other responsibilities include individual franchisee design
development as well as pre-press execution, contact with printing sources, color adjustments and the
approval of proofs.
02-03 Internship, Women’s Prison Project, Prison Reform Advocacy Center, Cincinnati, OH Researched
the history and current state of the prison industrial complex for frequent dicussion with the director
of the project. Created a body of artwork based on the research and possibilities for change within the
prison system and the larger dominating structure, and exhibited the work to the public at a
non-profit space.