LAURA CARPENTER TRUITT
520 Fairfield Pike. Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
303 325 4458
[email protected]
www.lauracarpentertruitt.com
represented in Denver by The William Havu Gallery
EXHIBITIONS (solo and invitationals)
2026 Picture Planes, Dutoit Gallery, Solo exhibition, Dayton, OH
Shared State, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2024 Located in the Newly Unfamiliar, Buckham Gallery, two-person exhibition with Amy Reckley, Flint, MI
2023 Time and Place, Yellow Springs Arts Council Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH
2023 William Havu Gallery, two-person exhibition with Bob Knox, Denver, CO
2020 Shifting Horizons, AS2 gallery, Spokane, WA
2019 Shifting Horizons MAC gallery, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee WA
An Extended View, Spokane Art School, Spokane, WA
A Long Now Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
New Work by Laura Truitt William Havu Gallery Mezzanine , Denver, CO
2018 De-Clutter Downtown Student Gallery, Eastern Washington University
Shifting Horizons, Vino, Spokane, WA
2016 Beyond Women’s Work: decoding abstraction, Fort Collins Museum of Art,Fort Collins, CO
Re-visions William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 Articulated Perspective William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
Thresholds, Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery, Coker College, Hartsville, SC
Habitat, Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
2013 Recent work, Directions Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
2011 Art for Desmond Glen House Art, Yellow Springs, OH
Chromatic Spaces Hatton Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
Shows Promise Denver International Airport, Denver, CO,
2010 Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
Push/Pull Mercury Framing, Boulder, CO
In a Frame, Yellow Springs, OH
Inside/Outside Mini Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2008 Studio exhibition, Open Studios, Boulder, CO,
2006 The Elegant Universe: Julie Maren and Laura Carpenter Exhibitrek Boulder CO
Studio exhibition, Open Studios, Boulder, CO,
2005 Studio exhibition, Open Studios, Boulder, CO,
2002 Anthropomorphosis Herndon Gallery, Baltimore, MD,
EXHIBITIONS (group and juried shows)
2025 Members Show, YSAC gallery
2022 Labor and Learning, Barron Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Bird eye view, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2021 PAINTED 2021, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Disrupted Realism, Juried by John Seed, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
Abstraction, The In Art Gallery, IL
2020 Facing our Fears, The In Art Gallery, IL
2021?, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
Art in the time of Corona, DAB art, Los Angeles, CA
Natural Wonder, Art Spirit Gallery, Coure D’Alene, ID
2019 Faculty Show, Jundt Art Museum, Spokane, WA
2018 CLOSE IN series: 1st Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition, Jundt Art Museum, Spokane
2017 Industrial Strength, Republic Plaza, Denver, CO
2016 ArtMix Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO,
2015 Art for Artists Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2014 The Real Draw Carnegie Center, Drawing invitational, Fort Collins, CO
Juried art project, CSArt Colorado, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2013 Twenty William Havu Gallery, , Denver, CO, 2013
Art of the State: A Juried Exhibition of Colorado, The Arvada Center, “”, Denver, CO
2012 Natural/Constructed Spaces II The Painting Center, Juried show, NYC, NY,
MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Center for the Arts, Fort Collins, CO
Luminocity, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, selected for Gala, Denver, CO
and Mini Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2011 ABSTRKT Manifest Gallery, juried group show, Cincinnati, OH
Contemporary Western Art Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
Pratt Fine Art Center, selected for annual gala, Seattle, WA
2010 Intimate Works ART 342, benefit for the University Center for the Arts, Fort Collins, CO
Innovate Love Silo Point, Baltimore, MD,
2009 Emerging Artists Macky Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO,
St. Julien Hotel, Chinook Clubhouse Auction, Boulder, CO,
2008 The Ditch Project The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO,
Rembrandt Yard, represented artists, Boulder, CO,
2007 Nature Exhibitrek, Selected Group exhibition, Boulder CO
Open Studios, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2004 Storytellers: Fact or Fiction University Memorial Center Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO,
Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO
PUBLICATIONS
Quinlan, Maggie. “Science, Healing, and Art, Gonzaga Staff, Students Paint mural in Logan
Neighborhood”. The Spokesman Review, April 17th, 2021
Seed, John. Disrupted Realism. Buckham Gallery, 2021.
Evans, Ron. “Genre Bending at the MAC gallery, Interview with Laura Truitt” The Comet Oct. 26th 2019.
McDaniels, Nevonne. “Shifting Horizons reveals underlying conflicts in nature, society”, The Wenatchee
World, Oct. 24th, 2019
Paglia, Michael. “As Summer Wanes, Artists Go Organicat Three Galleries” Denver Westword, Aug. 28th,
2019.
Vanskike-Bunch, Kate. Last Cover Page, Gonzaga Magazine, Spring 2019.
Prager, Mike. “Gonzaga art students, muralist Daniel Lopez create mural at Northeast Community Center”,
The Spokesman-Review, April 5th 2018
Price, Sean. “GU art students work with Spokane artist to light up community center”, Gonzaga Bulletin,
April 4th, 2018.
Benjamin, Melina. “Four GU students collaborate to create encaustic painting for donors”, Gonzaga
Bulletin, March 7th, 2018
Jackson, Sam. “(de)clutter: An art exhibit that showcases both creation & destruction”, The Easterner,
March 7th, 2018
Pohl, Grace. “EWU downtown gallery offers visions of (de)clutter”, Cheney Free Press, February 22,
2018.
Manifest Gallery, INPA 7, December 2017
Paglia, Michael. “Representational Art Meets the Abstract at Havu and Space Galleries”, Westword.
January 27th, 2016
Ruminate Magazine, Issue 38, March 2016
Ruminate Magazine featured artist, Issue 34: Keeping things Whole
Paglia, Michael. “Goldfish and a life size nude highlight Articulated Perspectives at the Havu Gallery”,
Denver Westword, July 16th 2014
Paglia, Michael, “Critic’s Picks: Denver”, art ltd., July 2014
Manifest Press, Vol. 57 ABSTRKT catalogue
Mann, Sehvilla, “Laura Carpenter Exhibit- Through a Child’s, and Painter’s, Eye”, Yellow Springs News,
December 29th, 2011.
Paglia, Michael, “Personal Visions”, Westword, August, 2010.
Ganglehoff, Bonnie, “Emerging artists: Horn, Youngers, Carpenter”, Southwest Art Magazine, February,
2008.
Bowman, Ann, “Artist Profile: Laura Carpenter”, Art of the Four Corners, Spring, 2008.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, Gonzaga University, Sept 2017 - present
Adjunct Instructor, Colorado State University, January 2013 – May 2017
Adjunct Instructor (online), Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, August 2015 – March 2016
Adjunct Instructor, Front Range Community College, August 2012 – June 2013
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University, Jan – May 2010 and Jan – May 2011
HONORS AND AWARDS
Manifest Gallery, INPA 7, December 2017
Vermont Studio Center, Resident for the month of July, 2015
Selected for CSArt Colorado, “Crop”, by curators for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014
Accepted into Vermont Studio Center for fall 2013 (declined)
Finalist for Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities postdoctoral fellowship, 2012
Nominated for Dedalus Scholarship, 2011
Vermont Studio Center resident for the month of January, 2007
EDUCATION
Colorado State University
M.F.A. in Painting 2012
Goucher College
B.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in painting 2002
2026 Picture Planes, Dutoit Gallery, Solo exhibition, Dayton, OH
Shared State, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2024 Located in the Newly Unfamiliar, Buckham Gallery, two-person exhibition with Amy Reckley, Flint, MI
2023 Time and Place, Yellow Springs Arts Council Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH
2023 William Havu Gallery, two-person exhibition with Bob Knox, Denver, CO
2020 Shifting Horizons, AS2 gallery, Spokane, WA
2019 Shifting Horizons MAC gallery, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee WA
An Extended View, Spokane Art School, Spokane, WA
A Long Now Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
New Work by Laura Truitt William Havu Gallery Mezzanine , Denver, CO
2018 De-Clutter Downtown Student Gallery, Eastern Washington University
Shifting Horizons, Vino, Spokane, WA
2016 Beyond Women’s Work: decoding abstraction, Fort Collins Museum of Art,Fort Collins, CO
Re-visions William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 Articulated Perspective William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
Thresholds, Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery, Coker College, Hartsville, SC
Habitat, Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
2013 Recent work, Directions Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
2011 Art for Desmond Glen House Art, Yellow Springs, OH
Chromatic Spaces Hatton Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
Shows Promise Denver International Airport, Denver, CO,
2010 Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
Push/Pull Mercury Framing, Boulder, CO
In a Frame, Yellow Springs, OH
Inside/Outside Mini Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2008 Studio exhibition, Open Studios, Boulder, CO,
2006 The Elegant Universe: Julie Maren and Laura Carpenter Exhibitrek Boulder CO
Studio exhibition, Open Studios, Boulder, CO,
2005 Studio exhibition, Open Studios, Boulder, CO,
2002 Anthropomorphosis Herndon Gallery, Baltimore, MD,
EXHIBITIONS (group and juried shows)
2025 Members Show, YSAC gallery
2022 Labor and Learning, Barron Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Bird eye view, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2021 PAINTED 2021, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Disrupted Realism, Juried by John Seed, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
Abstraction, The In Art Gallery, IL
2020 Facing our Fears, The In Art Gallery, IL
2021?, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
Art in the time of Corona, DAB art, Los Angeles, CA
Natural Wonder, Art Spirit Gallery, Coure D’Alene, ID
2019 Faculty Show, Jundt Art Museum, Spokane, WA
2018 CLOSE IN series: 1st Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition, Jundt Art Museum, Spokane
2017 Industrial Strength, Republic Plaza, Denver, CO
2016 ArtMix Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO,
2015 Art for Artists Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2014 The Real Draw Carnegie Center, Drawing invitational, Fort Collins, CO
Juried art project, CSArt Colorado, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2013 Twenty William Havu Gallery, , Denver, CO, 2013
Art of the State: A Juried Exhibition of Colorado, The Arvada Center, “”, Denver, CO
2012 Natural/Constructed Spaces II The Painting Center, Juried show, NYC, NY,
MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Center for the Arts, Fort Collins, CO
Luminocity, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, selected for Gala, Denver, CO
and Mini Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2011 ABSTRKT Manifest Gallery, juried group show, Cincinnati, OH
Contemporary Western Art Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
Pratt Fine Art Center, selected for annual gala, Seattle, WA
2010 Intimate Works ART 342, benefit for the University Center for the Arts, Fort Collins, CO
Innovate Love Silo Point, Baltimore, MD,
2009 Emerging Artists Macky Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO,
St. Julien Hotel, Chinook Clubhouse Auction, Boulder, CO,
2008 The Ditch Project The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO,
Rembrandt Yard, represented artists, Boulder, CO,
2007 Nature Exhibitrek, Selected Group exhibition, Boulder CO
Open Studios, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2004 Storytellers: Fact or Fiction University Memorial Center Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO,
Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO
PUBLICATIONS
Quinlan, Maggie. “Science, Healing, and Art, Gonzaga Staff, Students Paint mural in Logan
Neighborhood”. The Spokesman Review, April 17th, 2021
Seed, John. Disrupted Realism. Buckham Gallery, 2021.
Evans, Ron. “Genre Bending at the MAC gallery, Interview with Laura Truitt” The Comet Oct. 26th 2019.
McDaniels, Nevonne. “Shifting Horizons reveals underlying conflicts in nature, society”, The Wenatchee
World, Oct. 24th, 2019
Paglia, Michael. “As Summer Wanes, Artists Go Organicat Three Galleries” Denver Westword, Aug. 28th,
2019.
Vanskike-Bunch, Kate. Last Cover Page, Gonzaga Magazine, Spring 2019.
Prager, Mike. “Gonzaga art students, muralist Daniel Lopez create mural at Northeast Community Center”,
The Spokesman-Review, April 5th 2018
Price, Sean. “GU art students work with Spokane artist to light up community center”, Gonzaga Bulletin,
April 4th, 2018.
Benjamin, Melina. “Four GU students collaborate to create encaustic painting for donors”, Gonzaga
Bulletin, March 7th, 2018
Jackson, Sam. “(de)clutter: An art exhibit that showcases both creation & destruction”, The Easterner,
March 7th, 2018
Pohl, Grace. “EWU downtown gallery offers visions of (de)clutter”, Cheney Free Press, February 22,
2018.
Manifest Gallery, INPA 7, December 2017
Paglia, Michael. “Representational Art Meets the Abstract at Havu and Space Galleries”, Westword.
January 27th, 2016
Ruminate Magazine, Issue 38, March 2016
Ruminate Magazine featured artist, Issue 34: Keeping things Whole
Paglia, Michael. “Goldfish and a life size nude highlight Articulated Perspectives at the Havu Gallery”,
Denver Westword, July 16th 2014
Paglia, Michael, “Critic’s Picks: Denver”, art ltd., July 2014
Manifest Press, Vol. 57 ABSTRKT catalogue
Mann, Sehvilla, “Laura Carpenter Exhibit- Through a Child’s, and Painter’s, Eye”, Yellow Springs News,
December 29th, 2011.
Paglia, Michael, “Personal Visions”, Westword, August, 2010.
Ganglehoff, Bonnie, “Emerging artists: Horn, Youngers, Carpenter”, Southwest Art Magazine, February,
2008.
Bowman, Ann, “Artist Profile: Laura Carpenter”, Art of the Four Corners, Spring, 2008.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, Gonzaga University, Sept 2017 - present
Adjunct Instructor, Colorado State University, January 2013 – May 2017
Adjunct Instructor (online), Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, August 2015 – March 2016
Adjunct Instructor, Front Range Community College, August 2012 – June 2013
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University, Jan – May 2010 and Jan – May 2011
HONORS AND AWARDS
Manifest Gallery, INPA 7, December 2017
Vermont Studio Center, Resident for the month of July, 2015
Selected for CSArt Colorado, “Crop”, by curators for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014
Accepted into Vermont Studio Center for fall 2013 (declined)
Finalist for Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities postdoctoral fellowship, 2012
Nominated for Dedalus Scholarship, 2011
Vermont Studio Center resident for the month of January, 2007
EDUCATION
Colorado State University
M.F.A. in Painting 2012
Goucher College
B.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in painting 2002
