about

lauri stallings lives and works in Georgia. stallings creates both inside and outside of art world institutions through her choreographed landscapes and actions to invoke particular places, collective voices, and communities of movement. Whether inhabiting a forest of 80 acres, or confined to the surface of a beam of light, the origin of stallings' art extends outwards from the primary projections of the feet and hands.

Her work has been exhibited and presented nationally and internationally at FracMeca, High Museum of Art, Florence Biennale, Aspen Music Festival, Atlanta Contemporary, Trinity Laban, Jule Museum, MOCA GA, Bass Hall, Hartsfield International Airport, Zuckerman Museum, Marais de Bonnefont, Rialto Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center, and Goat Farm Arts Center. stallings has created a durational public art work for Creative Time New York, in Central Park, as part of "Drifting in Daylight" exhibition. Since 2013, she has focused on the Deep South as a site where more good can happen, with support by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, South Arts, and the NEA. She is a research + process resident artist at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (2024-25). She is a Downtown Atlanta Futures Lab resident artist (2025 - 26). She is the inaugural artist of Flux Projects.She is a United States Artist Fellow nominee (2022, 2018).

stallings is the recipient of several awards, including an Artadia Award, and MOCA GA Working Artist Project Fellowship. She received a Nexus Award, with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for Barefoot Island (2023). She is the recipient of the Lorenzo Il Magnifico, jury prize, at the Florence Biennale' (2019). She is the recipient of the She was awarded Emory College Center for Creativity and Arts inaugural Community Impact Artist Award. She was awarded the Hudgens Prize for art (2018). She is the first choreographer as artist -in - residence at the High Museum of Art. She is a Bogliasco Fellow, and Hambidge Center Fellow. stallings was Georgia Tech Resident Artist.

lauri has developed a number of community projects, including search for the exceptional (2012), vacant Historic Maddox Pool, Vine City neighborhood, Atlanta; The Traveling Show (2013 - ongoing), rural South; and all directions i come to you ( 2015), Brooklyn Queens Land Trust, Creative Time, and Global Kidz, Brooklyn, Harlem, and Queens, NY; Unity in 3 Parts: A Rosenwald School Homecoming (2015 - 2016), Griffin, GA; 17th Street Prairie (2020 - ), Midtown Atlanta, with support from the Dewberry Foundation; and, Barefoot Island, Cochran Mill Park, South Fulton, GA (2023). She continues to search for and find possibilities for openness and critical engagement. She is currently leading The Blooming City, a series of public activations in the community of Palmetto, Georgia.

In 2009, lauri founded glo, an artist - led platform for art, cultural development, and social relations, located in a 19th-century industrial space of the Goat Farm, Westside, Atlanta.

stallings is an artist who has collaborated with other artists for the manifestation of new work, including Maestro Robert Spano, Big Boi and the Dungeon Family, Gyun Hur, and Pearl Cleage. For all her innovation, Stallings’ secondary training was traditional, as a ballet dancer. Early choreographic works include Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Ballet Augsburg, Ballet BC, American Ballet Theatre, and Hubbard St. Dance Chicago, where she completed a long performance career. stallings holds degrees from Point Park University, and Prescott, as part of the first MFA Art as Social Practice and Environment cohort.

stallings was raised in the margins, a Southerner born of a Georgia small - time activist, and great granddaughter of P.M. Barefoot, descendant of the Lumbee Tribe who helped raise her momma and sisters.

stallings makes all her work in the 19th century industrial space of the Goat Farm Arts Center.