Bio
Laura Boles Faw’s work consists of investigations through sculptures, installations, drawings and mixed-media works. She examines the ways we prop ourselves up in the world and borrows from art historical and cultural references in order to create new meanings and transformative fictions. In addition to her solo practice, she collaborates with several artists through discursive and ongoing projects.
Boles Faw recently completed a permanent public artwork in OH Bay Cultural Park, Shenzhen, China and with Summer Mei Ling Lee created an online meeting performance for Ars Electronica. She has exhibited in the Bay Area at [ 2nd floor projects ], The Contemporary Jewish Museum, The Chinese Culture Center, Minnesota Street Project, The Walter and McBean Galleries, Scrawl Center for Drawing, Meridian Gallery, MAX Occupancy, Alter Space Gallery, Kala Art Institute, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Root Division, and Ever Gold Gallery. Additionally, she has exhibited at Ms. Barbers, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition); Practice Space, Cambridge, MA (collaborative solo exhibition); Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA; James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA; and Vast Space Projects, Las Vegas, NV (collaborative solo exhibition). Boles Faw was named SBC-VCCA Teaching Fellow to teach at Sweet Briar College while in residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2019. She has also been in residence in LongLi, China where she was commissioned to make a permanent public work for the Second (Longli) International New Media Art Season and at Kala Art Institute and LOOP Arts in the Bay Area. She is a recipient of a California Arts Council Artist Activating Communities Grant with the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco.
Boles Faw received a BA in Art History from Sewanee and an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute where she held the position of Lecturer in the Sculpture Department from 2012-2018. She recently relocated to Savannah, GA.