Lauren Gregory is a multidisciplinary artist and educator born and raised in the mountains of East Tennessee, the fourth in a lineage of Southern female painters and quilters. Her practice bridges painting, animation, and quilting, exploring themes of storytelling and the interplay between tradition and technology.
Initially trained as a portrait painter, she later taught herself stop-motion animation to bring her paintings to life. In recent years, quilting, a craft she learned as a child from the matriarchs in her family, has become central to her work. She is particularly interested in integrating digital imagery and internet culture into this age-old art form.
Since receiving an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she has created GIFs, looped video installations, and animated shorts that have screened at MoMA PS1, the New Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, and film festivals worldwide. Her animation and directing work includes commissions from publications such as the Washington Post and music videos for Leonard Cohen, Norah Jones, James Taylor, Sarah McLachlan, and Toro y Moi. She has been awarded residencies in Hungary, Italy, and New York.
She currently teaches animation at Parsons School of Design and quilting at Ox-Bow School of Art. Represented by Elijah Wheat Showroom in New York and Red Arrow Gallery in Nashville, she lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
