Laura Owens began exhibiting her work in the mid-1990s and quickly became known for her innovative approach to painting that infuses traditional methods with unconventional ones, including printmaking and digital manipulation. She combines these varied techniques to create destabilizing illusions of depth, extending her paintings beyond the confines of the canvas into three-dimensional space. Her work encompasses a wide range of references, from art history, decorative arts, and craft traditions, to mass media and personal anecdotes. In addition to her large-scale canvases, Owens’s practice extends to handmade books, wallpaper, and sculpture.

Laura Owens (b. 1970) was born in Euclid, Ohio, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been the subject of numerous one-person museum exhibitions, including the Cleveland Museum of Art (2021), the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France (2021), the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco (2016), the Secession in Vienna (2015), the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2011), the Kunsthalle Zürich (2006), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (2003). In 2017, a mid-career retrospective of her work was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Dallas Museum of Art.