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Laura Ferguson:

Selected Biography


Selected exhibitions: Woodward Gallery, Noho Gallery, Marymount College Gallery, Dance Theater Workshop, Cornell University Medical Library, Center for Book Arts, the United Nations, Lincoln Center, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center, all in New York City; National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC, Penn State University, Michigan State University, the Chicago Cultural Center, Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia, Brunnier Art Museum in Ames, Iowa, Gallery 100 in Saratoga Springs, NY, Ellipse Arts Center in Arlington, VA, Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, NY

Selected presentations: Michigan State University, Penn State University, The Cooper Union, College Art Association, Society for Disability Studies, National Scoliosis Foundation, Hibbs Society

Commissions: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; Scoliosis Research Society, cover artwork for Spinal Deformities: The Comprehensive Text

Press/publications: The New York Times, The Washington Post, US Art, The Lancet, Rheumawire, Conscience, Arthritis Today, Dr. Alice Dreger’s One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal (Harvard University Press), Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles’ Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century (Rutger’s University Press, part of the Sloan Technology Series), Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program’s The New Gatekeepers (upcoming from Columbia University Press).

The Spring 2004 issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine contains a special section, "The Visible Skeleton Series: the art of Laura Ferguson," edited by Alice Domurat Dreger (Johns Hopkins University Press).

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_in_biology_and_medicine/toc/pbm47.2.html