Scooter LaForge

Bio/CV: Scooter LaForge (b. Las Cruces, New Mexico) is a New York-based artist who has lived in the East Village for the past 18 years. His unique style mines the catalog of art history by infusing classical themes with a colorful sensibility. LaForge works in various media, including painting, sculpture, and drawing, and employs unorthodox techniques and striking iconic images. His paintings have been shown at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York, the Friedrichshof Museum in Vienna, and the Spritmuseum/Absolut Art Collection in Sweden. In 2015 Scooter LaForge was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He holds a BFA in painting from the University of Arizona.

Artist Statement: Often combine-like, his works are a walking journal of images where ideas are explored and refined. LaForge approaches painting intuitively, absorbing what surrounds him and working on the canvas with agility and focus—drawing from a fertile inner emotional realm and an extensive painterly vocabulary.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:  2019 Homo Eruptus - Howl! Happening, NYC, Creation of the Animals - Empirical Nonsense, NYC 2017 The Odyssey - Jealous Gallery, UK, 2016 Everything’s Going to Be OK - Theodore Art, BKLYN 2015 How to Create a Monsterpiece - Howl! Happening, NYC, New Paintings - Galerie MX, Canada, Travels with Johnny - Munch Gallery, NYC 2013 Summer Love - Deluca Gallery - MA 2012 Super Powers and Special Abilities - Munch Gallery

Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2020 Dogs and Bones - Theodore Art, BKLYN 2019 Pride - Postmasters Gallery, NY, Stonewall 50/50 - 1969 Gallery, NY, ICYMI - Theodore Art, BKLYN 2015 Drawings - Theodore Art, BKLYN, Powerful Babies - Spiritmuseum, Sweden, Interface - Leslie-Lowman Museum, NYC 2014 Summer Show 2014 - Munch Gallery, NY, NEWD Art Fair - NY, Queer Biennial - Coagula Curatorial - LA, Watermill Center Benefit Auction, NY, Flesh Garden - La Petite Mort Gallery, Amsterdam, Bibbidi-Bibbidi-Boo - Here Arts Center, NY, Boys Keep Shining - Summerhall, Scotland 2013 Downtown New York - Broome Street Gallery, NY, 2012 Wolfpack: Manhattan to Manchester - Cube Gallery, UK, Scooter LaForge/Christopher Moss - Theodore Art, BKLYN, Fountain Air Fair - Munch Gallery, NY, Flesh Garden - YESSR4, Buenos Aries

Awards and Residencies: 2015 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Cooper Union Artist Residency 2020 Silo6776 - New Hope, PA.

Selected Collections: Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sprit Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, Leslie Lohman Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Howl! Happening, Kates-Ferri Art Collection

Selected Press: Forbes, New York Times, AM-NY, the Advocate

Social: @scooterlaforge