Lanecia A. Rouse (born 1978 in Atlanta, GA) is a versatile artist who divides her time between Houston, TX, and Richmond, VA. Her diverse portfolio spans collage, abstract painting, photography, teaching, writing, speaking, and curatorial projects for local non-profit organizations.
Recently concluding a month-long residency in Charleston, SC with the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, Lanecia has also been an Artists on Site: Series 3 Artist-in-Resident at the Asia Society HTX in 2022, and the 2020-2021 Artist-in-Resident for the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University. She holds the position of Artist-in-Resident partner at Holy Family HTX Episcopal Church in Houston, TX where she leads the Curation Team for the Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery.
Her exhibitions include venues such as San Jacinto College Central Gallery, Pasadena, TX (2024); The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX (2023); The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC (2021, 2022, + 2023); Reynolds Contemporary Gallery, Richmond, VA (2022 + 2023); Hogan Brown Gallery, Houston, TX (2023); Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX (2022 + 2023); Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2022); Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX (2022); Asia Society TX Center, Houston, TX (2022); Art is Bond. Gallery, Houston, TX (2022); Urban Zin Gallery, New York City, NY (2021 + 2022); Duke University Chapel (2022); Collect it for the Culture, Houston, TX; Houston First Corporation, Houston, TX (2021); Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2020); Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2020); Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; Forth and Nomad Gallery, Houston, TX (2019); American Church in Paris, Paris, France where she did a 1-month residency (2018); and Fourth Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2017 + 2021).
Lanecia's work is currently featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage at the First Museum in Nashville, TN September-December of 2023. It will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston opening in February 2024 and then to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
A graduate of Duke University Divinity School and Wofford College.
Lanecia studios at High Dawn Studio in Richmond, Va.
Inquiries regarding Available Works PDF, Speaking Engagements, Interviews, etc.: LARArtInfo@gmail.com
Gallery inquiries: Reynolds Gallery
Instagram: @larartstudio
Recently concluding a month-long residency in Charleston, SC with the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, Lanecia has also been an Artists on Site: Series 3 Artist-in-Resident at the Asia Society HTX in 2022, and the 2020-2021 Artist-in-Resident for the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University. She holds the position of Artist-in-Resident partner at Holy Family HTX Episcopal Church in Houston, TX where she leads the Curation Team for the Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery.
Her exhibitions include venues such as San Jacinto College Central Gallery, Pasadena, TX (2024); The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX (2023); The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC (2021, 2022, + 2023); Reynolds Contemporary Gallery, Richmond, VA (2022 + 2023); Hogan Brown Gallery, Houston, TX (2023); Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX (2022 + 2023); Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2022); Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX (2022); Asia Society TX Center, Houston, TX (2022); Art is Bond. Gallery, Houston, TX (2022); Urban Zin Gallery, New York City, NY (2021 + 2022); Duke University Chapel (2022); Collect it for the Culture, Houston, TX; Houston First Corporation, Houston, TX (2021); Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2020); Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2020); Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; Forth and Nomad Gallery, Houston, TX (2019); American Church in Paris, Paris, France where she did a 1-month residency (2018); and Fourth Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2017 + 2021).
Lanecia's work is currently featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage at the First Museum in Nashville, TN September-December of 2023. It will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston opening in February 2024 and then to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
A graduate of Duke University Divinity School and Wofford College.
Lanecia studios at High Dawn Studio in Richmond, Va.
Inquiries regarding Available Works PDF, Speaking Engagements, Interviews, etc.: LARArtInfo@gmail.com
Gallery inquiries: Reynolds Gallery
Instagram: @larartstudio
Artist Statement
Art making is an act of love for me. It is in the work that I am able to dive more deeply and honestly into the complex layers of myself. It is where I come to better see, name and understand the collage that is me and the world we all inhabit— as I participate in the imagining and creating of better worlds.
My artistic practice is contemplative, intuitive, playful/exploratory, and improvisational in nature. In my work, I explore the aesthetic and language possibilities of materials and photography. I create mixed media collage works that point towards alternative ways for viewing and knowing human experiencing. I sit with questions and draw upon memory, poetry/literature, sociopolitical realities, theology and history to create art composed of mostly-found or discarded materials. Each piece reflects the textured ideas, complex realities, and possibilities that make up the storied layers of the human experience. I build layers, stitch, paint, deconstruct, reimagine, and re-construct my materials to potentially bring new things into existence.
Art making is an act of love for me. It is in the work that I am able to dive more deeply and honestly into the complex layers of myself. It is where I come to better see, name and understand the collage that is me and the world we all inhabit— as I participate in the imagining and creating of better worlds.
My artistic practice is contemplative, intuitive, playful/exploratory, and improvisational in nature. In my work, I explore the aesthetic and language possibilities of materials and photography. I create mixed media collage works that point towards alternative ways for viewing and knowing human experiencing. I sit with questions and draw upon memory, poetry/literature, sociopolitical realities, theology and history to create art composed of mostly-found or discarded materials. Each piece reflects the textured ideas, complex realities, and possibilities that make up the storied layers of the human experience. I build layers, stitch, paint, deconstruct, reimagine, and re-construct my materials to potentially bring new things into existence.