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Exhibitions
2024
Art.Life.Design, Art League RI, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Echoes: A Journey Through Mixed-Media Collage, Painting, and Sculpture, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Nor'Easter, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Boston Muse: Womxn’s Art, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, Massachusetts
2023
Nothing Permanent, Dartmouth Cultural Center, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
As They Saw It: Women Artists Then & Now, D’Amour Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts and Fenimore art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Strut, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Red, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2022
Looking Back Now, Louise Laplante, Laconia Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Summer Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Mixed Media Show, Dover Art Association, Dover, New Hampshire
Corporal Gestures – An Exhibition of Contemporary Collage, School of Architecture, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Collage: Departures and Adaptions, Nan Fleming and Louise Laplante, Anchor House of Artists, Northampton, Massachusetts
Dodge and Burn, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
2021
Looking Forward, Carter Burden Gallery, New York, New York
Revitalized, Stove Factory Gallery, Charlestown, Massachusetts
Variations, Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, Massachusetts
2020
Natural Worlds, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Newport Annual, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
2019
Creatures Big and Small, GR Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
Collage, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
Mediums of Exchange, Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, New York
2018
Figures We Fancy, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Shelter, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
Material Flow: Rhythm in Collage and Sculpture, Pratt Gallery, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
2017 Abstractions in Black and White, Gallery 175 Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Blanche Ames National, Borderlands, North Easton, Massachusetts
Five Points Biennial, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut
A Declaration of Sentiments: Reflections on the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NYS, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, New York
2016
Winter Exhibit, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2015
Boston Biennial 4, Atlantic Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Drawing, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Taking Root: Caniskek and the Meeting of Two Worlds, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, New York
North Northeast, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
NBMMA 45th Exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
2014
New Directions ’14, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Connecticut Women Artists – 85th National, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Connecticut
New England Collective V, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Biennial 3, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2013
Storytellers and Conjurers, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2012
Works on Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Drawing, b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, New York
Strange Glue, Thompson Gallery, Weston, Massachusetts
Silhouette, A.P.E., Northampton, Massachusetts
The Cadence of Familiarity, Krauss Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2011
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Paperworks, Paper City Studios, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Small Works, Towne Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts
2010 Text/Context, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts
A Community of Artists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
Here and Gone: Presence, Absence, Memory and Time, Amy H. Carberry Fine Art Gallery, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts
2009
Dreamscape, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2008 Small ’08, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Interaction: Louise Laplante and Liz Chalfin, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst Massachusetts
Artists and Books, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
One Night, Pivot Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts
2007 20 Artists X 2 Feet, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Art Institute, Manchester, New Hampshire
Salon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2006
Small: 20 Artists X 2 Feet, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Salon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2004 On Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Encaustics, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
New Acquisitions, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
2003 Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
2002 The Belles of Amherst; Contemporary Women Artists in the Collection of the Mead Art Museum and the University Gallery, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
1998
Vessels: Louise Laplante & David Powers, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
Ten Women, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, Massachusetts
1997
Self Portraits, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
1996
Painting Now, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island
Louise Laplante, Milton Art Museum, Milton, Massachusetts
1995
New Work: Louise Laplante, St. Germaine Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts
Drawings: Louise Laplante, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, Connecticut
Small Works, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
1994
Sesquicentennial Celebration, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
Two Artists, Cuneen-Hackett Cultural Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Large Drawings – Louise Laplante, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts
1993
Louise Laplante, Geissler Gallery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
Drawing Now, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1992
Louise Laplante, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York
Louise Laplante and Margaret Plaganis, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
1991
Small Objects, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
The Changing World, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York
Louise Laplante New Work, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1989
New Artists: Gloria Winchler Memorial Exhibition, Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire
Figures and Faces, Gary Wortzel Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Louise Laplante, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
1988
Paperworks, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Small But Monumental, Hera Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
1987 The Subject is Water, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
1986 American Contemporary Women Artists, Gallery Triangle, Washington, DC
1985
Louise Laplante, The Gallery, Springfield Tech Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts
Louise Laplante Works on Paper, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
1984
Works on Paper, F.A.C.E.T., Taos, New Mexico
Works on Paper, 100% Realart Gallery, Spokane, Washington
1983 Louise Laplante, Springfield Central Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts
Rope, Drawings by Louise Laplante, Main Street Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Women Artists, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachu
setts
1982 Two Artists Drawing, Gallery on Paper, Lenox, Massachusetts
Artists Self Portraits, Pratt Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Small Works, Passepartout Gallery, Winooski, Vermont
Valley Artists ’82, The Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
1981
Invitational, Danco Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts
Bibliography
"The Summer Show at Carrie Haddad Gallery", Art Spiel, Louisa Pancoast podcast, August 22, 2022
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Exhibizone 2020, Biafarin exhibition catalog, p. 86
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Mediums of Exchange, Bartholomew w. Bland,2019 exhibition catalog, pp.14-15
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“On Paper”, Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, July 2, 2004
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“STCC/Louise Laplante”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts September 29, 1985
Collections
MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland
Kingsley and Company, San Francisco, California
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
The Ontological Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
University Gallery, SUNY Albany, Albany, New York
Private collections
Awards
2008 Recipient, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
2004 Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants, Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books
1998 Finalist, Blanche E. Colman Award
Education
MA in Fine Art, State University of New York at Albany, New York
BFA, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
Studied, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Represented by
Carrie Haddad, Hudson, New York
PULP, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Turning Art, Boston, Massachusetts