Laurel Farrin received a B.F.A. from Ohio University-Athens and an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; Yaddo, MacDowell, Dora Maar, Pratt Institute Fine Art Summer Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Farrin received an individual artist grant from the Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Exhibitions include Devening Projects, Chicago; Lesley Heller Gallery, NY, NY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; The Bronx River Art Center; The Figge Museum, The Albany International Airport; Carroll Square Gallery, Washington DC; Roswell Museum and Art Center; the Des Moines (Iowa) Art Center; the Florida Center for Contemporary Art in Tampa; Spaces in Cleveland, Ohio; Anton Gallery; theCorcoran Gallery of Art and Washington Project for the Arts, in Washington, D.C.