BIOGRAPHY

Lauren Altman is a multidisciplinary artist and upcycled fashion designer based in Brooklyn.

Her biggest upcycled art installation to-date, “Desert Garden,” was a collaboration with Coca-Cola for Sonic Desert at Coachella. There, she transformed recycled Coca-Cola and Smartwater products into a vibrant oasis, complemented by pieces from her sustainable fashion collection, Lauren Altman Studio.

Lauren’s work has been exhibited at Art Basel Miami, David Nolan Gallery, and House of Yes in New York, The ArtDept. in Los Angeles, as well as internationally in London, Berlin, Mexico, and India. 

She has partnered with sustainable art and fashion retailers including: Art to Ware, The Canvas Seaport, and Fireplace Concepts in New York.

Her work has been featured in Page Six, BUST Magazine, Irk Magazine, Photobook Magazine, Grazia, Fashion Week Daily, Fashion Week Online, Time Out New York, Create! Magazine, Goss Magazine, and more.

She has led talks and workshops at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the ChoZen Eco-Sanctuary in Florida, and Scouts of America. Altman's work has also been featured on the social-emotional learning art-making show, Draw Together.

Lauren holds a BFA in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design, an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby's Institute of Art, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received the Pittman Family Scholarship and a PennDesign Grant to research clothing production and textiles at the Chennai Artist Residency in India.

"Lauren’s process reflects not only her unique approach to sustainable reuse of physical materials, but are works of intricate storytelling woven into every thread.”
— Miami Wire