stuartlorimerpaintings@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2011 MFA Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2008 BA (Hons) First Class (Painting), Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
2004 Foundation Year, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
Anyway I See it, curated by Steve Mykietyn, Schelfhaudt Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
Summer Days, curated by Kahlil Robert Irving, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York
2020
Documento, Embajada, San Juan PR
Purple, Underdonk, Brooklyn
2019
The Joke Is On You, Embajada, San Juan PR
Two Person Exhibition with Jessie Makinson, Lyles and King, New York
2018
Drama (solo), Lyles and King, New York
Three Person Exhibition, South of the Tracks Gallery, NY for Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL
Drawings, Curated by Jason Fox, Canada, Frieze New York
Wish Fulfillment, Curated by Kristen Smoragiewicz & Alex Tam, Sine Projects, Brooklyn
Hide and Go Chic, Rover Gallery, Chicago
2017
Feed The Meter Vol.2, curated by Wallace Whitney, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Luxembourg
15th Show, two-person exhibition with Max Heiges, Eddy’s Room, Brooklyn NY NADA New York, Canada, NY
2016
Driveway Dance-off, two-person exhibition with Emily Davidson, Canada, NY
Stone Soup Nasty, Orgy Park, Brooklyn NY
How-High, Left Field Gallery, LA
2015
New Paintings, (solo) Lyles & King, New York Canada, Frieze London
2014
Drawings and Prints, NADA, Miami Beach, Canada, New York Anthropocene, Canada, New York
2009
RSA New Contemporaries, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Leith School of Art 20th Year Anniversary , The Leith School of Art, Edinburgh
GRANTS AND AWARDS
The Vermont Studio Centre, 2014
The Stevenston Award for Painting, The Royal Scottish Academy, 2009
Dundee Visual Artist Award, City of Dundee, 2008
The Sandra McNeilance Award for Drawing and Painting, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, 2008
Artist Travel Grant, The Cross Trust, 2007
RESIDENCIES
Macedonia Institute, Chatham NY, 2021
TPAIRR, Rehoboth Beach, DE, 2020
Vermont Studio Center, VT, 2014
PRESS AND PRINT
New American Paintings, Northeast Edition #146 (2020), #128 (2017), MFA Edition #87 (2011)
Garage, Five Years of Embajada Feb 12, 2021 https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/k7a5nv/five-years-of-embajada
TimeOut NY, Review of Driveway Dance-off at Canada Gallery, August 2016
Painting is Dead. Featured Artist (2015) http://paintingisdead.com/stuart-lorimer.html
When Art Looks Back, HyperAllergic August 2014 https://hyperallergic.com/143735/more-now-than-then-when-art-reaches-back/
The Shock of The New, Rachael Divine, The Sunday Times, February 2009
Royal Scottish Academy, The New Contemporaries, Georgina Coburn, AN Magazine 2009 http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/509166
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
“An eye that tried so hard to forget one particular thing that it ended up forgetting everything else.” Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, July-September 2019
Richard Bosman, Steven Campbell, Emily Davidson, Elizabeth Englander, Samara Golden, Chip Hughes, Kahlil Robert Irving, Willy Le Maitre, Georgia Diva McGovern, Lo F.L. Russo Barbara Sullivan
“Does a Moon Move”,Orgy Park, Brooklyn September - October 2017, Joe DeNardo, Haley Josephs, Kaitlin McDonough, RJ Messineo, Jenna Ransom, Craig Rempfer, Sam Strand.
“CANADA Friends & Family Garudge Sale” CANADA, NY, August 2017 Exhibition co-curated with Emily Davidson and Matthew Flaherty
“Spring Break Art Show” March 2016, New York Paul DeMuro, Ash Ferlito, Em Rooney, Suzanne Seesman, Janus, Tedman and Strand
Owner and Co-Director: Bannerette, an artist-run space, Brooklyn, NY 2013-2016
Monthly programming and offsite projects exhibiting work of American and European artists, with a focus on group exhibitions and diverse media.
Committee Member: Generator Projects, an artist-run space, Dundee, Scotland 2008-2009
Collaboration between 5 committee members responsible for organizing exhibitions, running public programs, procuring public financing and preserving the gallery’s historic, industrial unit.