Lauren Berkowitz
Lauren Berkowitz
BAFA (Sculpt) (RMIT), Grad Dip Fine Arts (Sculpt) (VCA), Masters FA (Sculpt) (NY)
Lauren Berkowitz (’82) has exhibited her work in major institutional and commercial spaces across Australia and internationally since 1989. As an accomplished Melbourne-based artist, Lauren transforms natural and manufactured materials using light, volume and space.
Lauren’s work has been included in exhibitions and featured in publications, often themed around sustainability and ecology. Recent group exhibitions include, Know My Name Global, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, (2025-26),The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20th Century Collection (2023- 26), Echigo-Tsumari Triennale and Artfield, at Australia House, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, (2024), The Mourning After, RMIT Design Hub Gallery, (2025), In the Air, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne, (2021) and The National 2021: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Lauren has had over 100 solo and group exhibitions. Working with plants, residual matter and objects we discard daily, Lauren gathers or salvages such items as plastic takeaway tubs, bottles, rings and lids and reconfigures them into immersive architectural scaled ecosystems. Her ephemeral and site-specific installations evoke the passage of time, loss and renewal. Often inspired by the landscape, her poetic regenerative sculptures invite conversations about environmental fragility.
Her work is documented in Great Women Sculptors, (Phaidon 2024), Sculpture Today, (Phaidon, 2007) and Art and Ecology Now, (Thames and Hudson, 2014). Recent collections include: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Langwarrin.
When not creating art, Lauren loves walking, connecting with friends and family, travel, visiting Art Museums and Galleries, and enjoying music and film.