About

United States (b. 1982 in Louisiana)

Siems’ art serves as a visual diary, inviting viewers to engage with the nuanced interplay of feminism, body politics, and metaphor. She adapts the “women’s work” traditions as an empowering form of release, mending and a way of storytelling. All imagery is directly derived from relationships and experiences as a point of departure for a way to visually understand a woman’s view and interaction with the world around her. Siems expresses nontraditional beauty by playing on nostalgia for conventional aesthetics and certain ideals of feminine behavior, while urging girls to grow to be strong independent women with a sense of reflection, a respect for our female predecessors, and a mind for changing the future.

After almost a decade in New York City, she has moved her artistic practice to Houston, TX. Siems graduated with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette 2005, and received her Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth 2009. She has also studied drawing at the University of Sussex in England, Summer 2004. In 2009, Siems interned at the International Studios and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NY. She also worked under artist Jacob Hashimoto in 2010. In 2018, Siems was awarded Artist in Residence Takt Kunstraum Tapir in Berlin, Germany. Since then, she has focused on further developing her own artistic practice.

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Solo Exhibitions

2023 Enter Me, TankSpace, Houston, TX

2022 Domesticity, Fiori, Houston, TX

2009 Temporary Comfort, Envoy Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Temptations, Lafayette Art Gallery, Lafayette, LA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Case Study, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX

2024 Art for a Cause, Millhouse, McKinney, TX USA

2023 Domestic Odyssey, East China Normal University, Shanghai CN, Museum Hilversum NL, Remise, Amsterdam NL, HAL 25 Alkmaar NL, Tap je bankje, Kampen NL, NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam NL

Building Beauty: Art and Architecture, Downtowner Gallery, Round Rock, TX

2022 My Body My Choice, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY USA

2021 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

Network Social, Namazgah Culture Center, Kandira, Turkey

2018 Inherencia, Melancholia, Berlin, Germany

Everything Flows, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany

Resident Art Exhibition, Sojourn Studios, Houston, TX

2016 I AM AN IMPORTANT GIANT, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Museum of Broken Relationships, Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

You've Got Mail, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014 AccessArt Benefit Auction, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY

MTV: Momentum Technology Video Film Festival, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

2012 Plush Stories: These Plush of Mine, Grumpy Bert, Brooklyn, NY

Spring/Break Art Show, School House Projects, New York, NY

2011 Art Basel, Angaelica, Miami, FL

(e)merge Art Fair, Washington D.C.

Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Itally

ABC No Rio Gala + Benefit Auction, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY

2010 #rank, Winkleman Gallery (NYC), SEVEN Art Fair, Miami, FL

2009 La Superette, New York, NY

Screaming Duo, Guyer Barn Gallery, Hyannis, MA

Group FAX, The Drawing Center and iCI, Cape Town, South Africa

2008 Multiplicity, State Street Gallery, New Bedford, MA

Annex, Union Street Gallery, New Bedford, MA

2007 Women: The Image, Higgins Art Gallery, West Barnstable, MA

Black, White and Everything in Between, Open Space Gallery, New Bedford, MA

2005 Glimpse, Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA

2003 Fletcher 308, Architects + Artists, Lafayette, LA

Traveling Exhibition

2009 Roving Project, Invest, Kansas City, MO, Baltimore, MD, Long Island, NY

Residency

2018 TAKT BERLIN I LEIPZIG, Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany

2017 Sojourn Studios, Artist in Residence, Houston, TX

Artist Talk

2019 Takt Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2018 Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany

Publications/Features

2023 Domestic Odyssey, The One Minute Series, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

2022 Utopian and Dystopian Cityscapes, Singulart

2021 Featured Artist, January 2021, Apero Fine Art Publication

2020 Loren Siems Conceptualizes Relationships of Non-Traditional Beauty, May 2020 Issue #9, AQ Art Magazine

2019 Stories Behind Artist and Their Works, Spring 2019 Issue #04, Artqol Magazine

2018 Curator’s Picks, Featured Artist October, Artrepreneur

2014 Artists to Look Out For, 1st Edition, Starry Night Programs

Momentum Directory, Institute for Women in Art, Rutgers University

2012 A View From the Easel, 16th Edition, Hyperallergic

Portrait of the Artist as a New Yorker, Marc Landas

2011 i reduced him to a book series, self-published

2009 Rose Artist Fund, promotional video

2008 ARTCORE_TV, Digital Arts Gallery

Selected Private Collections

To purchase artwork or make other inquiries email: lorensiems@gmail.com