BIOGRAPHY

Claude Lawrence lives and works in Sag Harbor, New York. Over the course of his career, Lawrence has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions across the United States. Recent solo presentations include exhibitions at Venus Over Manhattan, New York; Anthony Meier, San Francisco; David Lewis Gallery, East Hampton; and The LAB, Seattle.

Lawrence’s work has also been widely featured in major group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Recent presentations include exhibitions at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; the Long Island Museum, Stony Brook; the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France; Guild Hall, East Hampton; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; and the Newark Art Museum, Newark.

His work is represented in the permanent collections of more than thirty public institutions, underscoring his longstanding impact on contemporary American art. These collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, among many others.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
The Baker Museum, Artis, Naples, FL
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Columbia University Fine Arts Library, New York, NY
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
The Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME
The Schomburg Center, New York Public Library, NY
Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture, Washington, DC
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

RECENT PRESS
Wall Street Journal, 2024
W Magazine, 2024
The Brooklyn Rail, 2024
Artnet, 2024
Bomb Magazine, 2022

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITS
2024: Claude Lawrence: Reflections on Porgy & Bess, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
2023: Free Jazz: Claude Lawrence, David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
In Focus: Claude Lawrence, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
2022: Claude Lawrence, Anthony Meier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Claude Lawrence, The LAB, Seattle, WA