Laurie Victor Kay (b. 1971) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work blurs the lines between photography, painting, installation and digital mediums to address constructed imagination, idealization and a sense of the surreal. Her various bodies of work range from photographic series that reimagine and abstract the everyday to autobiographical mixed-media series that examine the psyche, vulnerability and contemporary culture. Throughout all her practice, she emphasizes seemingly opposing elements as a means to visualize psychological landscapes and the structural interactions between nature and the inorganic.

She studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and photography at Columbia College Chicago (BFA, 1995). Her work can be seen in permanent installations at UNMC’s Lauritzen Outpatient Center and Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, the Women’s Center for Advancement, May River Capital in Chicago, 4 World Trade Center in New York, Marriott Capitol Arts District, and Tenaska. She has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and her work is held in numerous private collections around the country. She is the recipient of numerous awards, has collaborated with companies across the globe, like Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company and Solé Bicycles, and has worked with an impressive roster of clientele, including the likes of Nike, Alanis Morissette, Warren Buffett, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Alexander Payne, Gigi Gorgeous, The Red Cross, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, to name a few. She is a current member of the Healing Arts Advisory Board for the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

She currently lives and works in Omaha, NE.

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Publications

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HYPERALLERGIC

A View from the Easel: Laurie Victor Kay

August 2025

MUSEUMWEEK

Anatomy of Empathy Through the Art of Laurie Victor Kay. The Interview

August 2025

FRAMES MAGAZINE

Beautiful Mess in Volume 19 - View PDF here

May 2025

A WOMEN’S THING

Laurie Victor Kay is Done with Perfection

May 2025

CLOT Magazine

Laurie Victor Kay, the Camera as Catharsis

March 26, 2025

By Kate Hoag

WHITEHOT MAGAZINE

Laurie Victor Kay: Visual Dialogue

November 18, 2024

By Carlota Gamboa

NINU NINA

Exploring the Inner Landscape: Laurie Victor Kay’s Pathos and Apothecary

November 5, 2024

BOLD JOURNEY

Meet Laurie Victor Kay

October 31, 2024

CULTURALEE

“I Was Ready to Be Vulnerable” Culturalee in Conversation with Laurie Victor Kay

October 14, 2024

ALL ABOUT PHOTO

Exclusive Interview with Laurie Victor Kay

September 13, 2024

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

THE MUSEUM OF IDEAS

In the Mind of Artist Laurie Victor Kay

August 2024

By Shannon Mullen O'Keefe

CANVAS REBEL

Meet Laurie Victor Kay

July 15, 2024

EYE ON SUN VALLEY

Laurie Victor Kay Creates Psychological Entries into Ideal Spaces

April 12, 2022

By Karen Bossick

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER

Digital exhibit will thank health care workers

February 3, 2021

By Kalani Simpson

INTERIORS MAGAZINE

Through a Lens Artfully: photography and text on the Venice Biennale

August/September issue, 2015

By Laurie Victor Kay

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 My World Got Blurry, Der Greif X Copenhagen Photo Festival: 15th Anniversary, DK

2024 Intersections, Anne Loucks Gallery, Winnetka, IL

2022 Compositions, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID

2018 Compositions, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, Idaho

2012 Kaleidoscope, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID

2008 Kaleidoscope, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID

2005 Au Musée, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025         Group Exhibition, Wienholt Projects, High Desert Art Fair

2023 Photography 2023: Artist's Eye, Anne Loucks Gallery, Winnetka, IL

2021 Photography 2021, Anne Loucks Gallery, Winnetka, IL

2020 Milos Distant Means, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2020 Visible Light, Healing+Community Exhibition, Buffett Cancer Center, Omaha, NE

2016 Accessible Art Fair, National Arts Club, New York, NY

2016 Photography 2016: In a Blink, Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL

2015 H2O (Water), Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2015 Art Seen, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

2015 Photography 2015, Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL

2015 Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID

2014 Plage Parasols Bleues, Clic Gallery, New York, NY

2014 Photography 2014, Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL

2013 Group Summer Show, Clic Gallery, New York, NY

2013 Trees, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID

2013 Photography 2013: Summer Lens, Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL

2013 Plage Surf Blanc, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2012 Photography 2012: Through the Lens, Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL

2011 Kaleidoscope II, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID

2011 Plage, Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL

2011 Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Clic Gallery booth, Southampton, NY

2010 artMRKT Fair, Gilman Contemporary booth, San Francisco, CA

2009 Artist Showcase, Culturator, Seoul, KR

2008 Art Chicago, Gilman Contemporary booth, Chicago, IL

2007 Arte del Amour, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2007 Building a Legacy, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2006 Where the Truth Lies, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2005 International Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2002 Close to Home, Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium, Sante Fe, CA

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