LAUREN E. PETERS


Lauren E. Peters is a visual artist working with the concepts of identity and gender through self-portraiture. She began creating within this genre for a small exhibit in 2016 after an extended hiatus from painting, and two years later won the “Emerging Artist” fellowship by the Delaware Division of the Arts. Lauren was the 2023 Delaware Individual Artist Fellow for Visual Arts: Painting, awarded the grant as an "Established Fellow." Peters has exhibited on a national level and is also active locally in her home state as a studio artist at The Delaware Contemporary. She continues to grow as an artist and expand the world in which the portraits exist.

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Professional Highlights


In the spring of 2024, Peters will attend the Vermont Studio Center. This 3-week residency is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Lauren attended the Soaring Gardens Artist Residency in 2022, supported by the same grant.


In 2020-2021 Peters curated and executed the exhibition, "Appearances,"  at The Contemporary with 16 other artists creating their own interpretation of one of her early self-portraits and saw the public installation of her portrait of "Wilma," namesake of the new Buccini/Pollin Group's bowling alley/restaurant in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.


At The Delaware Contemporary, Lauren has served as the Vice President of the Studio Artists group and the Artists Program Manager, helping develop this new role to serve the local and emerging artists of the region. Peters was previously the Operations Manager of the Somerville Manning Gallery, a highly respected gallery run entirely by women. She is currently on the board of The Art Trust at Meridian Bank in West Chester, Pennsylvania.


Notable press features an interview with Shana Nys Dambrot, Arts Editor of LA Weekly, in the October 2022 issue of Delaware Today magazine, and the November 2022 issue of Out & About magazine which highlights the development of the Wilma's commission.


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