Lauren Whearty is a Philadelphia-based painter, curator and teacher.
She is also a co-director of an artist-run curatorial collective, Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY. Whearty's paintings investigate personal identity through memory, lived experience, the familiar objects of everyday life, a love of color and the material processes of painting and drawing which bring them all together.
MFA, Ohio State University
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University