Lauren Pakradooni is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in the Philadelphia area. She holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Hampshire College.
Working across printmaking, sculpture, sound, and performance, Pakradooni explores the intersections of natural systems and the built environment. Her printmaking practice centers on intaglio, relief, and repeat-pattern processes, using layering, impression, and seriality to build complex surfaces that reference growth, erosion, and structural systems. These material strategies extend into her sculptural and time-based work, creating a continuous dialogue between image, object, and sound. Sound plays a central role in her practice through Tether, an ongoing collaborative music project that combines voice, analog electronics, and experimental song structures. Through performance and recording, Tether extends Pakradooni’s interest in embodiment, duration, and process into time-based forms.
Pakradooni has presented solo exhibitions at The Print Center (https://www.printcenter.org), Philadelphia, PA; Monaco, Saint Louis, MO (https://monaco-stl.com); Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY (https://www.peepspace.org); Skylab, Columbus, OH (https://skylabgallery.org); IA&A at Hillyer (https://www.iaahillyer.org) , Washington, DC; the University of Texas at Austin (https://www.utexas.edu), Austin, TX; Space 1026 (https://space1026.com), Philadelphia, PA; and Cheymore Gallery (https://cheymoregallery.com), Tuxedo, NY. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Transmitter Gallery (https://transmitter.nyc), Brooklyn, NY; Planthouse Gallery (https://www.planthouse.us), New York, NY; and Icebox Project Space (https://iceboxprojectspace.com), Philadelphia, PA.
She has received residencies and support from the Women’s Studio Workshop (https://wsworkshop.org), the Wassaic Project (https://wassaicproject.org), the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (https://www.khnelsoncenter.org), and Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar (https://qatar.vcu.edu).