Lanecia A. Rouse (1978, Atlanta, GA) is a multidisciplinary artist who splits time between Houston, TX and Richmond, VA. Her portfolio includes a range of abstract painting, photography, teaching, writing, speaking, and curatorial projects for local non-profit organizations.
Lanecia recently a completed a month long residency in Charleston, SC with the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts. She has also been Artists on Site: Series 3 Artist-in-Resident at the Asia Society HTX, as well as the 2020-2021 Artist-in- Resident for the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University. Herpractice also includes an Artist-in- Resident partnership with Holy Family HTX Episcopal Church in Houston, TX. Lanecia is a Co-founding Creative Director for the ImagiNoir Equity Group, an international alliance and community development and equity group of black activists, artists, writers, scholars, philanthropists, and educators. She is the former Director for Justice and the Arts with projectCURATE a Houston-based non-profit. She is also the leader of the Curation Team of the Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery of Holy Family HTX Episcopal Church.
Lanecia’s work is currently featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage at the First Museum in Nashville, TN, that opened September 15, 2023 and closes December 31, 2023.
“Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the subject, Multiplicity presents 75 major collage and collage-informed works that reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity. Featuring an intergenerational group of artists, Multiplicity explores the varying ways collage is employed and how the technique suggests diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. By assembling pieces of paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite our fragmented society.
Artists range from established luminaries to emerging and mid-career figures, including Mark Bradford, Lauren Halsey, Rashid Johnson, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Jamea Richmond- Edwards, Deborah Roberts, Tschabalala Self, Lorna Simpson, Devan Shimoyama, and Mickalene Thomas.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with scholarly essays and will travel to The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.”
Lanecia has exhibited at the 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 an 1-month residency (2018); and Fourth Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2017 + 2021).
Lanecia is a graduate of Duke University Divinity School and Wofford College.
Aside from shows/exhibitions, you can see her work at High Dawn Studios in Richmond, VA.
@LARArtStudio (IG, Facebook + Twitter)
Lanecia recently a completed a month long residency in Charleston, SC with the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts. She has also been Artists on Site: Series 3 Artist-in-Resident at the Asia Society HTX, as well as the 2020-2021 Artist-in- Resident for the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University. Herpractice also includes an Artist-in- Resident partnership with Holy Family HTX Episcopal Church in Houston, TX. Lanecia is a Co-founding Creative Director for the ImagiNoir Equity Group, an international alliance and community development and equity group of black activists, artists, writers, scholars, philanthropists, and educators. She is the former Director for Justice and the Arts with projectCURATE a Houston-based non-profit. She is also the leader of the Curation Team of the Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery of Holy Family HTX Episcopal Church.
Lanecia’s work is currently featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage at the First Museum in Nashville, TN, that opened September 15, 2023 and closes December 31, 2023.
“Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the subject, Multiplicity presents 75 major collage and collage-informed works that reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity. Featuring an intergenerational group of artists, Multiplicity explores the varying ways collage is employed and how the technique suggests diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. By assembling pieces of paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite our fragmented society.
Artists range from established luminaries to emerging and mid-career figures, including Mark Bradford, Lauren Halsey, Rashid Johnson, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Jamea Richmond- Edwards, Deborah Roberts, Tschabalala Self, Lorna Simpson, Devan Shimoyama, and Mickalene Thomas.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with scholarly essays and will travel to The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.”
Lanecia has exhibited at the 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 an 1-month residency (2018); and Fourth Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2017 + 2021).
Lanecia is a graduate of Duke University Divinity School and Wofford College.
Aside from shows/exhibitions, you can see her work at High Dawn Studios in Richmond, VA.
@LARArtStudio (IG, Facebook + Twitter)
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, slow, 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, slow, 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.