Born in Pittsboro, NC

EDUCATION
B.A. Liberal Arts, Concentration in Studio Arts Meredith College, Raleigh, NC

GRANTS + AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2007   Puffin Foundation Grant
2006   Southwest School of Art & Craft Artist Residency Award  San Antonio, TX
2003   Berkshire Taconic Artist’s Resource Trust Award
          Caldera Artist Residency Award  Caldera, OR
          Gunk Foundation  grant finalist
          Vermont Studio Center Residency  Fellowship Award  (declined)
2001   The Charlotte Home Grant  Stephens Foundation
          Forest Foundation Grant  
          Amesbury Cultural Council Artist Grant  Massachusetts Cultural Council
          Georgetown Cultural Council Artist Grant  Massachusetts Cultural Council
          Nominations:  St. Botolph Artist Grant; Barbara Singer Sargent Award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007   Ice Cream, No Regrets  Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery,
          Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
          Sock Monkey Kama Sutra Project Space, Mills Gallery,
          Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
          Buscando la verdad/Seeking truth Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
2006   Making nice  Willow Community Gallery, LynnArts, Lynn, MA
2005   Two Projects: What haunts… and Still busy…Sitting still Conant Gallery, Lawrence Academy,
          Groton, MA. 
          what haunts…  Space, Portland, ME
          Wallflowers  Bromfield Gallery, Boston,MA
          New Work  Meredith College, Raleigh, NC.  Visiting Artist
2004   what haunts…  Artspace, New Haven, CT
2003   Lore  McQuade Library Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2002   what haunts…  Artists Foundation, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING:
         Through the keyhole  caruso & mclaurin at 250 Canal St., Lawrence, MA
         HEROES  Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC, Curated by Elin O'hara Slavick
         Hybrid  Two-person show at Brodigan Gallery, Groton School, Groton, MA
         Paper Quilts  Main Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
         Many Kinds of Nothing  Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2007  Swaddled babies & Dead animals  caruso & mclaurin at 250 Canal St., Lawrence, MA
         Alphabet Project 2: 24 Artists, 1 Poet and 1 Lawyer create an alphabet  
         Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2005  A Different Honest  Le Gallery, Toronto, Canada  Curated by James Kirkpatrick
         Found It  Artworks  New Bedford, MA
         Floating Studio  Washington Mills, Lawrence, MA
         Word of Mouth  Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA
         Dictionary Project  Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA                                  
2004  Participation Required  Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
2003  Artwalk  Lawrence, MA
2002  Artrages  Mobius, Boston, MA
2001  Interiors  Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA

GALLERY REPRESENTATION  
2006 to present   Work represented in Flatfile Project  Art Space, New Haven, CT

VISITING ARTIST/LECTURESHIP
2007  Clark University, Worcester, MA
         Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2006  New England Consortium of Artist-Educator Professionals Boston, MA
         Merrimack College  North Andover, MA
         Women’s Caucus for Art National Conference  Boston, MA
         Lawrence Academy  Groton, MA 
         National Art Honor Society Induction Ceremony  Currier Museum of Art  Manchester, NH
         Meredith College  Raleigh, NC
2004  Fuller Museum  Brockton, MA

REVIEWS + PRESS
2008  "Fabrication and Encounter: When Content is a Verb", by Paula Owen, Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture
         and Contemporary Art, Duke University Press

2007  "Co-Created Art Rituals from the Personal to the Transnational", by Catherine Judge, BLAZE: Discourse on          Art, Women and Feminism, Edited by karen Frostig & Kathy A. Halamka,
         Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK)
         THE EAGLE TRIBUNE, Lawrence, MA, September 20, Rosemary Ford, Artists explore innocence, protection
         in mill exhibit
         THE PHOENIX, Boston, MA, September 7, Randi Hopkins, Security Blankets
         NEWBURYPORT CURRENT, Newburyport, MA, March 9, J.C. Lockwood, Just below the surface
         SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, San Antonio, TX, January 31, Michelle Mondo,
         Artist urges teens to talk about life

         THE PHOENIX, Boston, MA, January 23, Randi Hopkins, Now on tape

2006  ARTSCOPE, Boston, MA, November/December, Brian Goslow, Icons + Altars
         ARTIST’S RESOURCE TRUST TEN YEAR RETROSPECTIVE CATALOGUE, 100 ART Artists,
         Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
         ART NEW ENGLAND, December/January, D’Lynne Plummer, Found It!

2005  THE FORCASTER, Portland, ME, June, Kate Bucklin, Secrets revealed; Exhibit makes the private public
         THE HERALD-SUN, Durham, NC, January 30, Blue Greenberg, Raleigh has mixed-bag of art
         CHATHAM NEWS/RECORD, Siler City, NC, January 27, Milburn Gibbs, Cathy McLaurin displays artwork

2004  THE EAGLE TRIBUNE, Lawrence, MA, July 6, Kristen Palma, Transforming Trash
         NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE, New Haven, CT, March 18, Alejandra O’Leary,
         Pop Life, Performance Art and Fart Space

         NUGGET NEWSPAPER, Sisters, OR, December 9, Conrad Weiler, Artist collects ‘secrets’

2003  ALL ABOUT ARTS Cable television Channel 10 interview, September
         THE DAILY NEWS, Newburyport, MA, August 8, Sonya Vartabedian, Candid Confessions:
         Secrets revealed in Cathy McLaurin’s booth (Reprinted in THE EAGLE TRIBUNE, Lawrence, MA, Aug. 12)
         AMESBURY NEWS, Amesbury, MA, August 8, John Lockwood, Chamber of Secrets: Artist
         Cathy McLaurin’s exhibit reaches into the darkest recesses of the soul
         (Reprinted in MERRIMACK RIVER CURRENT, August 8, cover story)
         ART NEW ENGLAND, December/January, Paul Parcellin, The Artists Foundation/South
         Boston: what haunts by Cathy McLaurin
         THE BOSTON GLOBE, August 23, Cate McQuaid, Some edgy artists play with space
         RUMBO, Lawrence, MA, March 15, Dalia Diaz, Celebrando el Mes de la Mujer en el Essex Art Center
         THE EAGLE TRIBUNE, Lawrence, MA, November 5, Rosemary Ford, Art hits high not

CURRENT POSITIONS
2006 Adjunct Faculty, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
1998–present  Special Projects Director/Director, Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA