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Gagosian is pleased to announce the global representation of Lauren Halsey. Based in South Central Los Angeles, where her family has lived for generations, Halsey creates immersive installations that bridge sculpture and architecture, and collages that blend fantastic geographies with real ones. Her practice draws on local vernacular sources such as flyers, murals, signs, and tags—icons of pride, autonomy, initiative, and resilience that she recontextualizes and reinterprets. Both celebratory and archival, Halsey’s work offers a form of creative resistance to the forces of gentrification.

Halsey’s debut exhibition with the gallery will be held in 2024 in Europe, with her first institutional exhibition in the United Kingdom to open at Serpentine, London, in October 2024.

Lauren Halsey has been named the 2021 winner of the Seattle Art Museum’s Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize. Awarded biannually since 2009 to an early career Black artist, the prize recognizes artists who have already contributed significantly to contemporary artistic practice and whose prominence is on the rise. As part of the award, Halsey will have her work presented in a solo exhibition at the museum.