Lena Hawkins
lenahawkins.studio@gmail.com
Open Studio · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Gateway: Paintings for Blacklight · Newtown Radio, Brooklyn, NY · 2019
NUNCA TERMINA: Watercolors by Lena Hawkins · Sunview, Brooklyn, NY · 2016
LongTime, Mural · Flux Factory, Queens, NY · 2016
Spirit Molecule · Mural, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY · 2016
Mystery of the Psychic · Mural, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY · 2015
Bardo State: Watercolors by Lena Hawkins · Form/Space Atelier Exhibition Seattle, WA · 2015
The Meat Salesman · Mural, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY · 2013
Spectral Garden · Stephen Street Gallery, Ridgewood, Queens, NY · 2026
Salon Style · Peach Pit Gallery, Brooklyn, NY · 2026
Grand Opening · The Gallery, Brooklyn, NY · 2026
Saturn Retrograde · Flux Factory, Governor’s Island, NY · 2024
Inaugural Group Show · Peach Pit Gallery, Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Taylor Sakarett: A Human Pile presented by Lena Hawkins · Flux Factory, Queens, NY · 2022
Welcome to Lagoon · Lagoon, Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Ghost Juice · Pop Up Gallery, New York, NY · 2021
Between the Shrubs · Goodlife Garden, Brooklyn, NY · 2019
What We’re Wear · Institute for American Art, Portland, ME · 2018
Work Like New · Roguebuilt, Brooklyn, NY · 2018
Highly Personal · Deeply Social, Spaceworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY · 2018
Behind the Shrubs · People’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY · 2017
BATZ · Flux Factory, Queens, NY : Group exhibition curated by Will Owen · 2016
VOTIVE · Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY: Collaborative performance work with Michael DiPietro, shown on a double bill with Kirsten Schnittker · 2015
Arts Prospect Festival · Yarky Space, St. Petersburg, Russia : Annual performance art festival produced by CEC Arts Link · 2015
Strobe Network · Flux Factory, Queens, NY · 2015
Zodiac Dinner Club IV · Bed Stuy Community Garden, Brooklyn, NY · 2015
Hidden Energies · 114 Forrest, Brooklyn, NY · 2015
Zodiac Dinner Club III · Spectrum, New York, NY ·
Zodiac Dinner Club II · Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA · 2014
Zodiac Dinner Club I · The Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY · 2014
ACT: Activism in Contemporary Art Collectives, Corporations, and Cooperatives, Theater for the New City · 2014
Poster Child · Bushwick Print Lab, Brooklyn, NY · 2013
Failure Drag · AUNTS at Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY · 2013
Shake In / Shake Out · Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY · 2013
Bushwick Open Studio · Brooklyn, NY · 2012
Makeover Series · Bushwick Trailer Park, Brooklyn, NY · 2011
...And The Good Life · Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, New York, NY · 2010
Zodiac Moon Calendar · 11x17”, 3-color risograph edition of 80+ · 2014–2026
Brooklyn Navy Yard · 11x15”, 4-color risograph edition of 22 · 2025
The Sleepers · 11x15”, 4-color risograph edition of 21 · 2025
King Spa · 11x15”, 4-color risograph edition of 13 · 2024
The Matrix · 11x15”, 4-color risograph edition of 13 · 2023
Gateway · 11x15”, 4-color risograph edition of 21 · 2023
Utopia School Map and Calendar · A2, lithography print · 2016
Utopia School Calendar · 11x17”, 2-color risograph print 100+ · 2014
Albano Guatti Residency, Brussa, IT · 2026
Utopia School, Copenhagen, DM · 2016
CEC Artslink, St. Petersburg, RU · 2015
AUNTS Camp at Mt. Tremper Arts, Phoenicia, NY · 2015
Ace Hotel A.I.R. Program, New York, NY · 2015
chashama, New York, NY · 2014
Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY · 2012–2016
Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant · 2024
The Tri-State Relief Fund to Support Non-Salaried Workers in the Visual Arts · 2020
Art-Solido: A Garden of Flesh and Visions at Stephen Street Gallery by Henry Ballate
Lena Hawkins
lenahawkins.studio@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2010 BFA, Interdisciplinary Design Program: Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2006 Foundation Degree, Central St Martins, London, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & MURALS
2019 Gateway: Paintings for Blacklight, Newtown radio, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Raquel’s Dreamhouse, 79 Greene St, New York, NY
2016 NUNCA TERMINA: Watercolors by Lena Hawkins, Sunview, Brooklyn, NY
2016 LongTime, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2016 Spirit Molecule, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Mystery of the Psychic, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Bardo State: Watercolors by Lena Hawkins, Form/Space Atelier Exhibition Seattle, WA
2013 The Meat Salesman, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2019 Between the Shrubs, Goodlife Garden, Brooklyn, NY
2018 What We’re Wear, Institute for American Art, Portland, ME
2018 Work Like New, Roguebuilt, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Highly Personal, Deeply Social, Spaceworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Behind the Shrubs, People’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY
2016 BATZ, Flux Factory, Queens, NY : Group exhibition curated by Will Owen
2015 VOTIVE, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY: Collaborative performance work with Michael DiPietro, shown on a double bill with Kirsten Schnittker.
2015 Arts Prospect Festival, Yarky Space, St. Petersburg, Russia : Annual performance art festival produced by CEC Arts Link.
2015 Strobe Network, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2015 Zodiac Dinner Club IV, Bed Stuy Community Garden, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Hidden Energies, 114 Forrest, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Zodiac Dinner Club III, Spectrum, New York, NY
2014 Zodiac Dinner Club II, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Zodiac Dinner Club I, The Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY
2014 ACT: Activism in Contemporary Art Collectives, Corporations, and Cooperatives, Theater for the New City
2013 Poster Child, Bushwick Print Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Glitter Disco, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Failure Drag, AUNTS at Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Shake In / Shake Out at Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2011 Makeover Series, Bushwick Trailer Park, Brooklyn, NY
2010 ...And The Good Life, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2016 Utopia School, Copenhagen, DM
2015 CEC Artslink, St. Petersburg, RU
2015 AUNTS Camp at Mt. Tremper Arts, Phoenicia, NY
2014 Ace Hotel A.I.R. Program, New York, NY
2014 chashama, New York, NY
2012-201 Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2019 Muralist, All Night Skate, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Exhibition Installer, Chromo Sapiens by Shoplifter aka Hrafnhildur Arnardottir
Icelandic Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2019 Art Handler, The Shed, New York, NY
2018 Muralist, Nicole Cohen Interior Design, New York, NY
2018 Lead Scenic Painter, Van Wyck & Van Wyck, New York, NY
2017 Production Designer, Feature Film Summer in the Shade
2013-2017 Scenic Painter, Freelance, New York, NY
2009-2012 Silkscreen Studio Technician, Gowanus Print Lab and Brand X Editions, Long Island City, NY
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