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In July 2020, Halsey collaborated with Korina Matyas, a childhood friend and environmentalist to start Summaeverythang, an initiative to bring organic produce to underserved neighborhoods in L.A. Summaeverythang donated an average of 600 boxes of organic produce every week throughout the 2020 season.
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scholarship for emerging artist in 2014. In 2014-15, Halsey was part of the Studio Museum in Harlems Artist-in-Residence program. She was recognized for transforming the Mezzanine Gallery with a site-specific installation for her exhibition titled
302:(2024) featured several tall white columns decorated with faces and extensive etched drawings and text referencing people and places in Halsey's community. The columns were installed with three similarly decorated white benches outside the main 190:
in Harlem, NY. It was during this time. that Halsey completed her thesis exhibition at the California Institute of the Arts and began the program at Yale University. In 2015 Halsey was included in the
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from the Los Angeles Design Festival. In 2018, Halsey received $ 100,000 for the Mohn Award to honor her artistic excellence. In 2019, Lauren Halsey was named the winner of the
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Part of Halsey's practice has entailed contributing back to the neighborhood. She facilitates the Summaeverythang Community Center, a community initiative which, during the
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in 2022 as the tenth artist to design an outdoor work for the museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor roof garden. The planned exhibition was postponed to 2023 due to residual
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described the piece as "a kind of space station/sanctuary," calling it "one of the best" of the museum's roof garden commissions.
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California Institute of Arts awarded Halsey The Beutner Family Award of Excellence in the Arts in 2011. Halsey was awarded the
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Young, gifted and Black : a new generation of artists : Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
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Young, gifted and Black : a new generation of artists : Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
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Halsey was born in 1987 in Los Angeles, California. She initially wanted to be a professional basketball player.
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Halsey is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist grant, 2015. She received the
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Artist Lauren Halsey's latest project: bringing beautiful produce to underserved neighborhoods
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exhibition at Coney Island Art Walls. The same year she was included in the exhibition
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Artist Lauren Halsey Teams With Nike for New Edition of Classic Air Force 1 Sneakers
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Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
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In 2019, Halsey collaborated on a collection of sneakers, socks, and t-shirts for
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the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I)
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Lauren Halsey Joins Gagosian After Doing Met Rooftop Sculpture Commission
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Lauren Halsey Joins Gagosian After Doing Met Rooftop Sculpture Commission
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David Kordansky Gallery Now Represents Huma Bhabha and Lauren Halsey
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From 2012-2014, Halsey worked with colleagues on a project titled
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at the Studio Museum along with fellow Artists -in-Residence
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Halsey counts among her greatest influences the artists
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In 2024 Halsey created an outdoor installation for the
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Halsey was included in the 2019 traveling exhibition
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In 2018 Halsey was involved in a solo exhibition at
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Index

Los Angeles
California
California Institute of the Arts
BFA
Yale University
MFA
Contemporary art
www.laurenhalsey.com
South Central, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies
El Camino Community College
Torrance, California
California Institute of the Arts
Charles Gaines
Yale University
Betye Saar
Overton Loyd
Mike Kelley
Dominique Moody
Mark Bradford
The Studio Museum
Sadie Barnette
Foundation Louis Vuitton
Museum of Contemporary Art
Hammer Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
logistics delays
COVID-19 pandemic

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