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 Creative Time New York, FracMeca, High Museum of Art, Florence Biennale, Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta Contemporary, Trinity Laban, Jule Museum, MOCA GA, Hartsfield International Airport, Zuckerman Museum, Marais de Bonnefont, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She is a research + process resident artist at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in 2024, culminating in “Singing Sun” for the Center’s grand re-opening in Fall 2025. She is a recipient of an Artadia Award. She is a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation SEED Grantee for her long term - work in the rural South. She has received a Nexus Award, with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation. She is a USA Artist Fellow nominee (2022, 2018). She is a Bogliasco Fellow, Hambidge Center Fellow, and MOCA GA Fellow. Stallings also served as Georgia Tech Resident Artist. She was awarded Emory College Center for Creativity and Arts inaugural Community Impact Artist Award. She was awarded the Hudgens Prize for art in 2018. She is the inaugural artist of Flux Projects.

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, Helen Kim, Gyun Hur, Big Rube, and Kebbi Williams. For all her innovation, Stallings’ artistic training was traditional, as a ballet dancer. Early choreographic works include Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Hubbard St. Dance Chicago, Ballet Augsburg, Ballet BC, and American Ballet Theatre. 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 railroad linesman, and great granddaughter of P.M. Barefoot of the Lumbee Tribe who helped raise her momma and three sisters.