Artist Roster

Lauren E. Peters (b. 1981) is a visual artist working with the concept of identity through self-portraiture. Each portrait is inspired by a photo staged by the artist and captured with a cell phone, reflecting the relationship between a physical form and conceptual or virtual projections. After an extended hiatus from painting, she began creating these portraits for a small exhibit in 2016 and was awarded an Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2018 from the Delaware Division of the Arts with an affiliated exhibit at the Biggs Museum of American Art. By 2023, she won her second Individual Artist Fellowship from the DDOA as an Established Fellow and was exhibiting on a national level. Peters attended a residency in 2024 at the Vermont Studio Center supported, in part, by a grant from the DDOA in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. She was also awarded a month-long residency at ChaShaMa's international program, ChaNorth, in May of 2024.

Peters maintains a studio at The Delaware Contemporary where she is also the President of the Studios@ group and was previously the Artists Program Manager, developing this new role to serve local and emerging artists in the region. Peters was previously the Operations Manager of the Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville, DE and a board member at The Art Trust in West Chester, PA. She continues to grow as an artist and arts professional, supported at home by her husband and a dog named Rosie. Martin van Buren, cat, is unsupportive of most activities outside of providing his meals.