Lauren Petrick Brooks
Born 1986, Irving, TX
Lives and works in Baltimore, MD
Painter | Educator | Community Arts Organizer
Education
MFA, Painting Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2015
BFA, Studio Art The University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Selected Exhibitions
2026 – 27th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (Juror: Nirmal Raja)
2023 – What’s New in Still Life, Portrait, and Landscape, LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA (curated by John Yau; exhibition essay)
2023 – Painted: Contemporary Realism in Maryland, Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2023 – Miami University Young Painters Competition, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH (Juror: John Yau; Third Place)
2022 – 13th Annual Drawing Discourse Exhibition, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC (Juror: Catherine Murphy) (catalog)
2019 – For the Love of Material, Terrault Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2018 – From then till downtown., 1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
2017 – Pontiac Artists, Tessellate Gallery, Pontiac, MI
2016 – Drive-Thru Painting Salon, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2015 – Closer, (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
2015 – Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (catalog)
2015 – Love After Dark: Sex, Love, and Attraction, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2013 – Tomorrow ain’t promised to no one, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2009 – Senior Art Exhibition, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX
2009 – Lines, University of Texas at Austin, Flood Gallery, Austin, TX
Awards & Honors
2025 – Shortlist, Women United Art Prize (Painting & Drawing Category), Women United Art Movement (International)
2023 – Third Place Award, Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award (Juror: John Yau)
Collections
Private collections, Royal Oak, Birmingham, and Huntington Woods, MI
Bibliography
Shearer, Jessica. “New Expressions of Traditional Genres at LaiSun Keane.” Boston Art Review, December 18, 2023, <https://www.bostonartreview.com/read/laisun-keane-whats-new-in-still-life-jessica-shearer>.
Community Engagement & Arts Education
2016–2021 – Departmental Coordinator, Pre-College & Continuing Studies, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2015–2016 – Programming Assistant, Culture Lab Detroit, Detroit, MI
2013–2014 – Instructor, Cranbrook Summer Art Institute, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2011–2013 – Studio Arts Teacher, Woodsboro High School, TX
2010–2013 – Studio Arts Teacher, Refugio Elementary School, TX
2009–2010 – Studio Arts Teacher, Claude Secondary School, TX
Commissions
2016 – Collaborative wallpaper design with de Gournay for private residence (53’ x 8’), Bloomfield Hills, MI
2014 – Two commissioned oil portraits (4" x 7" and 7" x 7"), private commission, Rochester, MI