Lauren Wy

Born in Los Angeles in 1987.
Lives and works in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Turin.

Lauren Wy explores the body and mind as generators of desire. Her artistic practice draws inspiration from the concept of Autotheory, developed by writer and independent curator Lauren Fournier. Wy builds narratives from fragments collected in both real and digital spaces, incorporating esoteric symbolism into her work. She centers the femme, the animal, and the landscape as subjects to address themes of ennui and bacchanalian chaos. Lauren Wy earned her Master of Fine Arts from Northwestern University in 2020. Prior to 2018, she was part of the underground music scenes in South Florida and Chicago, performing as a singer in a band and producing animated music videos. Her series AUTODESIRE debuted in 2021; Chapter 9 Grift X from her AUTODESIRE project is part of the permanent collection at Castello di Rivoli, Turin.