Lauren Monroe
Missoula, MT
Exhibit Year: 2016-2017, 2017-2018
About the Artist
Lauren Monroe Jr. is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe located in Montana. His art reflects Blackfeet cultural motifs and imagery as well as his experience of living and growing up on the reservation. The abstract quality of his acrylic paintings creates a visual narrative with dream like qualities that sometimes leaves the viewer in thought of the story behind them. Currently Lauren resides on the Blackfeet Reservation making art and freelancing on films as art production. He’s also part of the newly formed art collective, the Creative Indigenous Collective. A group of young native artists that include Ben Pease, John Pepion, Louis Still Smoking, Robert Martinez, and Gina Still Smoking of Still Smoking Designs.