Still from STAY WITH THE FEELING AND YOU WILL KNOW WHEN IT’S ENOUGH, a performance by Malacarne, choreographed by Alice Gosti. Rooted in ideas of movement, dependency and labor, Gosti and Malacarne performed this creative response to the Boren Banner project, A prop, grip or hold at the Frye Art Museum. The performance was followed by a conversation called The Movement of Labor, mapping connections between two distinctly different art practices that explore similar themes. 2023
Created for Western Pole (Chicago), curated by artist Jesse Malmed 2018






Double Blowout, Archival pigment print, 2017 
How the Sausage Gets Made, 2022, Installation at Double Garage (Seattle) curated by Michael Milano and Elisabeth Smith of Seattle Freezer
Professor of the Year award, Cornish College of the Arts, 2024 **don’t want to include the sound from this!)
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Living, large test strip for A prop, grip or hold at the Frye Art Museum
Figures/armatures/support structures living in the studio
15 years of my CV, punctuation only
Workshopping image layout for 2021 video Heavy Focus
Holding and falling
Experimenting with the chromoskedasic process with PCNW thesis student Jenny Hansen Das
Seven year-old hands in too-big fancy gloves, on the way to making Lazy Semaphores
Alpha-sunset, Archival pigment print, 2017
Two works from series Background Pictures. Left to right: [ocean] and [gingham]. Cut pigment prints on dibond. 2017
Found images. In process for A prop, grip or hold
Still from The Unmaking of a Sphere, 2016.
Images from the collaborative project and artist book Tropical Depression (2013), with Kate O’Neill. Tropical Depression investigates the relationships between photography, objects, and the tropics as a connotative and mythologized zone.
Images from the collaborative project and artist book Tropical Depression (2013), with Kate O’Neill. Tropical Depression investigates the relationships between photography, objects, and the tropics as a connotative and mythologized zone.
Images from the collaborative project and artist book Tropical Depression (2013), with Kate O’Neill. Tropical Depression investigates the relationships between photography, objects, and the tropics as a connotative and mythologized zone.
Sunset 8-030, part of the collaborative project Tropical Depression (2013), created with Kate O’Neill.
Tending the Roses, Steel, image transfers on drafting vellum, enamel. 2022
Tending the Roses, Steel, image transfers on drafting vellum, enamel. 2022
Tending the Roses, Steel, image transfers on drafting vellum, enamel. 2022
Tending the Roses, Steel, image transfers on drafting vellum, enamel. 2022
Research
Skins, Archival pigment print, 2017
Warm Leatherette, Pleather, pigment print in artist’s frame, 2016
Extra Firm, Archival pigment print, 2016
Recent News

Synchronicities: Intersecting Figuration with Abstraction. Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Opening January 2025


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Alterations. Photographic Center Northwest. 2024




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In The Artist's Words. Interview with Associate Curator Georgia Erger. Frye Art Museum



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ABOUT
Laura Hart Newlon is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator whose recent work explores materiality and conditions of visibility related to the body and image-making. Newlon has exhibited her work at various museums, galleries and artist-run spaces nationally, with recent exhibitions at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha), the Frye Art Museum (Seattle), the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), Specialist (Seattle), the Bellevue Art Museum (Bellevue), SOIL (Seattle) and the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts (Providence). 

Her work is included in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection and Photographic Center Northwest. Honors include the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artists, the John Quincy Adams Fellowship, and residencies at Arts, Letters and Numbers; Centrum; Photoworks; the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wassaic Project. Newlon holds an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013) and an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Washington (2010). She lives in Vancouver, BC where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Emily Carr University, and parents two young kids who love MadLibs and digging holes.
EXHIBITIONS
  • 2025 Synchronicities: Intersecting Figuration with Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
  • 2024 The Carpenter and the Gardener, Behnke Gallery
  • 2024 Heavy Focus, Anatolia International Film Festival
  • 2024 Alterations, Photographic Center Northwest
  • 2024 Vertical Hold, Punch Gallery
  • 2024 On Going, Gallery 312
  • 2023 A prop, grip or hold, Frye Art Museum
  • 2023 Out of Sight, Fisher Pavilion
  • 2023 Heavy Focus, Bridge Video & Film Festival
  • 2022 Coffin Farm Summer Show


PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
Art Connect – Meet the Artist
In the Artist’s Words: Frye Art Museum
Boren Banner Series: Laura Hart Newlon
Photoworks Takeover
A New Nothing
Primal Sight
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