Lauren Oliver is a New York City-based multidisciplinary artist who uses photography, filmmaking and performance to explore her multicultural identity. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from SUNY Purchase. Lauren’s photographs have been featured on i-D, Buzzfeed, F-stop Magazine, and The Luupe. Her first monograph, “Temple of the Self”, published by Monolith Editions in 2020, is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lauren is an alumni of ICP’s Teen Academy. Her time in Teen Academy as a student and later as a teaching assistant emphasized the importance of community and how it is fostered through creativity and education. Currently, Lauren splits her time between ICP, Gowanus Community Darkroom, and Mono No Aware in downtown Brooklyn where she teaches analog photography and filmmaking.

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