Layla Luna
A defining aspect of Layla Luna’s studio practice is making work in series. Each body of work may differ from one to the next in regards to materials used and specific themes, but two reoccurring interests serve as a common link: our interaction with nature and the attachments we place on objects, spaces, and architecture. The idea of home, as well as its physical structure, has come to embody these interests. Luna was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975. She received an MFA in Painting from Texas Christian University in 2016 and a BFA in Painting from Arizona State University in 2008. She studied at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand where she obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art in 2011. Artist-in-residence programs around the country have played a large role in feeding her need to explore and make work in new environments. Currently Luna lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas.
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EDUCATION
2016 MFA Painting, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
2011 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
2008 BFA Painting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (summa cum laude)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Leaving Home to Find It, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
2018 Desert Over and Over, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
The Homesick Project: Exhibition & Artist Residency, Megaphone PHX, Phoenix, AZ
2017 I Saw Nobody Coming, So I Went Instead, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2016 The Opulent Eye, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
The More I Build You, Gallery 76102, Fort Worth, TX
2012 In Fives, The Firehouse Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2010 My Life With Birds, Casa Grande Art Museum, Casa Grande, AZ
2009 Aviary, Practical Art, Phoenix, AZ
Suits, Brand X, Tempe, AZ
2008 Posing Poultry, Step Gallery, Tempe, AZ
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Dwelling, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 While We’re Here, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Rising Star 6, Turner House, Dallas, TX
Art in the Metroplex: Runners Up Show, Art7 Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Through a Scope, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2017 Art in the Metroplex: Grand Finale, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2016 Four, BRIK, Fort Worth, TX
Art in the Metroplex 2016, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Homestead, The Moncrief Cancer Institute, Fort Worth, TX
Transmission, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
2015 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX
Exhibitionists, Fort Worth, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
Selections, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Biennial: Origins in Geometry, Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas, TX
1-7, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
2014 The Here There: On the Particularity of Space, Some Sum Studios, Winona, MN
2012 Art for the People, Square 459 Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Heart On, 5 & 6 Art Space, Scottsdale, AZ
2010 Sensory Consciousness: Works by Arizona Women, A.E. England Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Potluck, Fragment Gallery, Tucson, AZ
What Texas Means to Me, Austin Art Space, Austin, TX
Bird x Bird 2010, Northrup King Gallery 320, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Offhand: An International Sketch Salon, Gallery 100, Tempe, AZ
2008 Mosaic: Cultural Identity in America, ASU's Museum of Anthropology, Tempe, AZ
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2018 Megaphone PHX, Phoenix, AZ
2017 Kimmel Harding Nelson, Nebraska City, NE
2015 The Rensing Center, Pickens, SC
2014 Weir Farm Art Center, Wilton, CT
2013 Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL
Madroño Ranch, Medina, TX
2010 Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
A defining aspect of Layla Luna’s studio practice is making work in series. Each body of work may differ from one to the next in regards to materials used and specific themes, but two reoccurring interests serve as a common link: our interaction with nature and the attachments we place on objects, spaces, and architecture. The idea of home, as well as its physical structure, has come to embody these interests. Luna was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975. She received an MFA in Painting from Texas Christian University in 2016 and a BFA in Painting from Arizona State University in 2008. She studied at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand where she obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art in 2011. Artist-in-residence programs around the country have played a large role in feeding her need to explore and make work in new environments. Currently Luna lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas.
CV
EDUCATION
2016 MFA Painting, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
2011 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
2008 BFA Painting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (summa cum laude)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Leaving Home to Find It, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
2018 Desert Over and Over, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
The Homesick Project: Exhibition & Artist Residency, Megaphone PHX, Phoenix, AZ
2017 I Saw Nobody Coming, So I Went Instead, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2016 The Opulent Eye, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
The More I Build You, Gallery 76102, Fort Worth, TX
2012 In Fives, The Firehouse Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2010 My Life With Birds, Casa Grande Art Museum, Casa Grande, AZ
2009 Aviary, Practical Art, Phoenix, AZ
Suits, Brand X, Tempe, AZ
2008 Posing Poultry, Step Gallery, Tempe, AZ
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Dwelling, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 While We’re Here, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Rising Star 6, Turner House, Dallas, TX
Art in the Metroplex: Runners Up Show, Art7 Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Through a Scope, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2017 Art in the Metroplex: Grand Finale, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2016 Four, BRIK, Fort Worth, TX
Art in the Metroplex 2016, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Homestead, The Moncrief Cancer Institute, Fort Worth, TX
Transmission, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
2015 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX
Exhibitionists, Fort Worth, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
Selections, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Biennial: Origins in Geometry, Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas, TX
1-7, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
2014 The Here There: On the Particularity of Space, Some Sum Studios, Winona, MN
2012 Art for the People, Square 459 Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Heart On, 5 & 6 Art Space, Scottsdale, AZ
2010 Sensory Consciousness: Works by Arizona Women, A.E. England Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Potluck, Fragment Gallery, Tucson, AZ
What Texas Means to Me, Austin Art Space, Austin, TX
Bird x Bird 2010, Northrup King Gallery 320, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Offhand: An International Sketch Salon, Gallery 100, Tempe, AZ
2008 Mosaic: Cultural Identity in America, ASU's Museum of Anthropology, Tempe, AZ
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2018 Megaphone PHX, Phoenix, AZ
2017 Kimmel Harding Nelson, Nebraska City, NE
2015 The Rensing Center, Pickens, SC
2014 Weir Farm Art Center, Wilton, CT
2013 Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL
Madroño Ranch, Medina, TX
2010 Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
