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= Lauren Halsey =

Biography
Lauren Halsey is an African American contemporary artist from Los, Angeles California, born in 1987. Lauren Halsey uses her architecture and installation art to demonstrate the realities of Urban neighborhoods like South Central. In 2018 Halsey was given an opportunity to be involved in a solo exhibition in Paris at the Foundation of Louis Vuitton. Also in her breakout year of 2018, she participated in a solo exhibition putting her installations and other art pieces on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMA) and was included in another Los Angeles based museum called, the Hammer Museum. New to the L.A. art scene, Halsey has been awarded with the Mohn Award, which was an $100,000 award. She was also named the winner of the Frieze Artist Award, where she will be given a chance to create an architectural piece for Frieze New York.

Education
From a young age Lauren Halsey was interested in art. She went to the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies during her middle school years. As Halsey got older she later attended the California Institute of Art in Valencia, California and studied architecture for a short period of time. After her journey there she moved on to Yale. Graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2014. Following her time at Yale she moved on to be a working artist at the Studio Museum in Harlem.