LAURI STALLINGS
Education Point Park University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, performance, with honors
Solo exhibitions
2019 Supple Means of Connection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta 2018 rather than some things appearing to rise up soft to your chest and a whole lotta mercy, Hudgens Center, Duluth, GA 2017 the room for tender choreographies, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia 2016 SEARCH ENGINE, Atlanta Contemporary 2014 gestures that soon will disappear, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia 2010 bloom, Flux Projects OPENING exhibition, Lenox Square, Buckhead, Georgia
Selected group exhibitions
2019 Art in the ATL, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Terminal T XIII Florence Biennale’, Fortezza de Basso, Florence, Italy 2018 Flux Projects, Historic Grant Park, Atlanta Beyond Words, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta Hudgens Prize finalist exhibition, Hudgens Center, Duluth 2015 Drifting in Daylight, Creative Time, Central Park, NY 2014 See Through Walls OPENING exhibition, Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw, GA 2013 You might just be my brother, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London, UK 2012 Art Basel, South Beach, Miami Flux Projects, Historic Castleberry Hill, Atlanta 2011 Flux Projects, Historic Castleberry Hill, Atlanta 2010 Both, Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, Beckett, MA 2009 Le Flash, Historic Castleberry Hill, Atlanta
Selected Awards
2019 Florence Biennale’ Lorenzo il Magnifico 2018 Hudgens Center Hudgens Prize Atlanta Magazine’s Atlanta 500 most powerful leaders United Artists nominee 2017 Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Working Artist Project Award Griffin-Spalding Historical Society project grantt, Griffin, GA Georgia Department of Economic Development support grant 2014 Artadia Award 2013-15 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation SEED Grantee American Academy of Arts Rome Prize nominee Atlanta Beltline Urban Development grant 2010 Emory University’s Creativity and Arts community impact Award inaugural recipient Flux Projects debut artist 2009 Benois de la Danse choreography nominee 2005 Chicago Music and Dance Alliance Ruth Page Award Cheney Foundation Project grant 2005 Chicago Tribune Chicagoan of the Year, for Arts
Lectures
2019 Social Movement, Women’s Movement, Melanie Zeferino and Lauri Stallings conversation, Florence Biennale 2018 Memorial Drive, a conversation with writer Cynthia Perry, Emory University Starting from Zero, a conversation with rapper Big Rube, urban journalist Maria Saporta, and activist platform Thread ATL, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta Visitors Bureau 2016 Creative Time Summit, USF Institute for Research in Art, Tampa, FL Tanz FEED, Is discourse a dramatic undertaking? Moderated by curator Daniel Fuller, Warhorse Cafe’, Atlanta 2015 Nick Cave and Lauri Stallings talk about public art, Flux Projects, BurnAway Magazine Atlanta Regional Commission annual leadership series 2014 Atlanta Regional Commission annual leadership series
Selected Projects and residencies 2019 Supple Means of Connection, Choreographer-in-Residence, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA JUMP / Mother, Soul Food Cypher, Atlanta public schools, Maestro Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Hall 2018 Summit, National Creative Placemaking, off-site Mapping, Chattanooga, TN Unity in 3 Parts: a Rosenwald School Homecoming, glo, City of Griffin, Downtown Development Authority, Griffin-Spalding Historical Society An arabesque in histories, Georgia State School of Anthropology, ThreadATL, Zero Mile Post, Underground Atlanta Silent Dance No. 11, Carson Center, Kansas City, KS 2017 Hourglass, choreography drawings, Daniel Arsham, gloPeople, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Orpheo, Maestro Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, glo, artist Daniel Arsham, Atlanta Symphony Hall 2016-13 Summit, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL New work, France-Atlanta, Daniel Wohl sound, Sol LeWitts 54 Columns Red Hill River(of brotherhood), performed by glo, Chattahoochee NOW, Chattahoochee River endangered river sites Movement Choirs, National Center for Civil and Human Rights 2014 choir B, Paradise Garden Foundation, Georgia Council for the Arts, Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden, Summerville, GA 2013-ongoing The Traveling Show, public art tour to 52 endangered sites in rural Georgia, glo, Georgia Economic Development, Georgia Council for the Arts, Georgia Trust 2012 search for the exceptional, organized by Park Pride, Historic Vine City, Atlanta 2011 Float, Beltline Urban Development, Piedmont Park, Atlanta 2010 Bloom, Flux Projects inaugural project, Lenox Square, Atlanta Hinterland, Big Boi and the Dungeon Family, glo, Woodruff Park, Atlanta 2009 rapt, rapper Big Rube, filmmaker Adam Larsen, High Museum of Art, Atlanta 2008 big, Big Boi and the Dungeon Family, Janelle Monae’, Fox Theatre, Atlanta 2016 cloth{field}, Maestro Robert Spano, glo, Goat Farm Arts Center, 2015 Artist-in-Residence, School of Music Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology Creative Time, Civic Actions: Farming, Movement Choirs, Making Days, Brooklyn Harlem, Queens 2014 Research Residency, Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA Artist, The Lab School and Rauschenberg Foundation cloth, Maestro Robert Spano, glo, filmmaker Micah Stansell, Goat Farm Arts Center 2013-11 Liquid Culture: a utopia station series, glo, Atlanta Opera, Alliance Theatre, MARTA station, Sol LeWitt 54 Columns, Historic 4th Ward 2012-ongoing Organizer, Tanz Farm, contemporary anthology, Goat Farm Arts Center 2012 Guest Artist, International Expo, Tel Aviv 2011 Maa', Maestro Robert Spano, Sonic Generator, glo, filmmaker Adam Larson, Atlanta Symphony Hall Organizer, Off the Edge, Rialto Center, Atlanta 2012 Resident choreographer, Laban Conservatory, London 2010 Fellow, Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy 2010-ongoing Resident Artist, Goat Farm Arts Center 2010 this is a world, glo, Duo Multi Cultural Arts Center, New York Zoot, Augsburg Ballet, Augsburg Opera Haus, Augsburg, Germany 2009 glo Launch 2008 Citizen, American Ballet Theatre, City Center, New York, NY 2006 the manifests, Hubbard St. Dance Chicago, Harris Theatre, Chicago Resident Artist, Atlanta Ballet 2005 Moody Hollow, Howard Levy, harmonica, dancers of Hubbard St, dancers of Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Music and Dance Alliance, Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago, IL 2005-2000 performer, Hubbard St. Dance Chicago