Ian Torres McLaughlin grew up in Chicago, Illinois and is based out of Boulder, Colorado. His art has shown in Boulder, Colorado, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, and Kansas City.
EDUCATION
2021 MFA, Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2002 BFA, Painting, The Kansas City Art Institute
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Rainbows in the dirt, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2021 House-Trained, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2020 Google, Boulder CO, (canceled covid-19)
2018 Messinger Gallery JCC, Boulder, Colorado
2017 Alternative Facts, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016 Colorado Ballet, Denver CO
2016 Love Bombs, 530 Sante Fe Dr, Denver, Colorado
2015 Nature’s Line, Space Gallery,Denver, Colorado
2013 Mind over Matter , Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2010 Synesthesia for the Times, Living Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECT GROUP SHOWS & PROJECTS
2024 Art Fair Detroit, Detroit Michigan
2022 Risky Business, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont Colorado
2022 Might Real Queer Detroit, Collected Detroit, Detroit, Michigan
2021 Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan
2021 Speculative Histories, Saarinen House, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
2020 Fresh Paint, Painting Dpt, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2020 Second Year MFA show, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2019 Pearl Street Project, Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, Colorado
2019 Grand Open Space Gallery Annex, Denver, Colorado
2017 Best of, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016 Winter Show, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016 Longmont Front Range Film Festival, Firehouse Art Center.
2014 End of Year Best of, Space Gallery, Denver Colorado
2014 Space Gallery New Building Grand Opening, Denver, Colorado
2013 Total Abstraction, Republic Plaza, Denver, Colorado
2013 Summer Show, Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2012 Winter Invitational, Buena Suerte a los Compañeros, Telephonebooth Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2010 Sonar Donkey-Deer Days music, Rogers Park Peoples Radio, Chicago IL
2010 Sonar Donkey-Deer Days, shown at US Social Forum, Detroit, Michigan
2010 Dharma Art, Chicago, IL
2008 Around The Coyote Spring Show, Chicago, IL
2008 Bubble Burst Time, d/vision gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Kansas City Art Institute BFA Show, H & R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO
2002 Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, Kansas City, MO
2002 Treehouse Meeting, Kelvin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1998 The Opie Gallery, Kansas City MO
PRESS
2020 Barbed Magazine, Spring 2020, Detroit
2017 Review: Layered Takes in Alternative Facts at Space Gallery, Denver Westword
2014 Earls Restaurant on the 16th Street Mall Gets sleek new renovation, Denver Post
2013 Review of Mind over Matter show at Space Gallery, Westword Denver
2013 Interview with Ian McLaughlin, Gaurdian Stewardship Editions
2011 Studio Visit Magazine, Vol 16
2010 Chicago Art Magazine
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Cranbrook Academy of Art: President’s Award for Sustainability
2002 Kansas City Art Institute: Graduated on the Deans List
1998 Kansas City Art Institute: Scholarship
1998 The Chicago Academy for the Arts: Humanitarian Award
1996 The Chicago Academy for the Arts: Polk Brothers Foundation scholarship
1994 The Chicago Academy for the Arts: Scholarship