NORAH FLATLEY LOVELL
816 Pacific Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70114
EDUCATION:
MFA University of Chicago, 1991
BFA University of New Mexico, 1988
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Included in over 50 solo and group exhibitions from 1990 to present.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING NOWHERE Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette Louisiana, 2026. Curated by Amy Mackie
GLACIAL RETREAT Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2026, Solo Exhibition
THE BALLINGLEN ARTS FOUNDATION AND MUSEUM OF ART BIENNIAL EXHIBITION Ballycastle, CO Mayo, Ireland, 2026
THE BIRD SHOW Curated by Carol Leake, Studio Waveland, Mississippi, 2026
AS A BOLT GALLOPS, A BOLT CLASPS, UNGAITED, UNHINGED Staple Goods Gallery, NewOrleans, LA 2025, Collaborative installation with Lee Deigaard.
AGENTS OF AUGURY Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2024, Collaborative Installation with Lee Deigaard and E Gross.
NEW AT NOMA: RECENT ACQUISITIONS IN CONTEMPORARY ART Curated by Katie Pfohl, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2023. Permanent collections exhibition
FORTUNA/SFORTUNA Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2023. Solo exhibition
DECORATION FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2022. Group exhibition curated by Norah Lovell
ECON 101 Levee Contemporary, Princeton, WI, 2022. Curated by Shane and Andrew Blanchard.
BIRDING IN AMERICA: AN AUGURY Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2022. Collaborative Installation with Norah Lovell, Lee Deigaard and E Gross research and development. Recipient Andy Warhol/Platforms grant research and development https://www.antenna.works/announcing-platforms-2021-2022-recipients/
QUARANTINE Amelia Center Gallery, Gulf State College, Panama City, FL, 2019. Curated by Pavel Amronin.
CULTURAL DECONSTRUCTIONS Lemieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2019. Curated by Ric Kasini Kadour. Winner of Doug and Lori Kanner purchase award.
LABOR OF LOVE Tulane University Carroll Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2017. Curated by Laura Richens.
TWO BLOCKS FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, 2017. Exchange exhibition featuring Staple Goods Collective artists.
PLEASE RESPOND Gallery 2001, Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio, 2017. Exhibition of artist collaborative books curated by Megan Williamson.
LEPORELLI VENEZIANI Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice, Italy, 2016. Curated by Berty Skuber.
RECONNAISSANCE: BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA 2015. Solo Exhibition.
REVERB: PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans 2014. Curated by Isolde Brielmaier
ARTPRIZE AT GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: (DIS)COMFORT ZONES Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, 2014
CONVERGENCE: JOAN MITCHELL CENTERAT PROSPECT.3
Prospect. 3 Arts Biennial, New Orleans, LA, 2014. Curated by Deborah Willis, MacArthur Fellow and Professor New York University, for the Joan Mitchell Center.
LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, 2013. Curated by Franklin Sirmans
BENEATH THE SHADES Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA 2013. Solo Exhibition
SELECTED ARTIST RESIDENCIES:
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan, Ireland 2026
Cill Rialaig Art Centre, Co. Kerry, Ireland 2025
International Scholars and Curators Program, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA, 2013.
Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy 2007 and 2015
REPRESENTATION:
2015-Present
Staple Goods Collective and Gallery, New Orleans https://www.staplegoods.org/
Callan Contemporary, New Orleans https://www.callancontemporary.com/
The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, 2003-2008.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
64 Parishes, A Studio of One’s Own, by Veronica Cross, March 2026
Hyperallergic, “A View from the Easel During Times of Quarantine” by Elisa Wouk Almino, October 20, 2020
Pelican Bomb, In Residence: Convergence at the Joan Mitchell Center Studios, by Octavia Fortune, January 22, 2015
Pelican Bomb, “Detective of the Impossible: Norah Lovell at Staple Goods” by Joseph Bradshaw, January 26, 2017
Pelican Bomb, “Image Universe” by Rosemary Reyes, April 27, 2015
The Joan Mitchell Center, “Convergence”, catalog for the Joan Mitchell Center at Prospect.3. Essays by Deborah Willis, Miranda Lash and Emily Wilkerson
TEACHING:
2019-Present
Instructor of interdisciplinary arts and humanities courses, Tulane University, New Orleans