BIOGRAPHY

Lauren Altman is a multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer whose work merges painting, textiles, and upcycled fashion into narrative-driven, collectible forms.

Her practice spans portraiture, installation, sculpture, and sustainable clothing design. She has exhibited at The Untitled Space, A.I.R. Gallery, J. Mackey Gallery, and David Nolan Gallery in New York, as well as Iceberg Project Space in Philadelphia, and was commissioned by Coca-Cola for Coachella in 2024.

Lauren holds a BFA in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a scholarship to attend a textile residency in Chennai, India. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Page Six, Whitehot Magazine, and The Untitled Magazine, and is recognized for its bold prints and commitment to sustainability. She lives and works in Brooklyn and is expanding her studio’s presence to Miami.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Fashion, memory, and reinvention are central to my mixed media paintings and upcycled textile-based works. Drawing from personal history and cultural trends, my practice explores how clothing shapes identity, value systems, and authorship.

I repurpose garments and fabric scraps from my fashion collection, Lauren Altman Studio, transforming discarded materials into new visual narratives. Influenced by early-2000s power dressing, women’s representation in media, and traditional textile techniques I studied in India, my work reflects a multidisciplinary process rooted in storytelling and sustainability. 

I engage with upcycling as a convergence of high and low, challenging hierarchies of material worth and cultural capital. Through a blend of painting, collage, and textile craft, my work invites viewers to reconsider what is consumed, preserved, and carried forward.