Photo by Hines at MarinMOCA

About Lauren Jade Szabo

Lauren Jade Szabo (b.1988) is a Los Angeles born artist and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. She graduated with a BFA in Illustration from California College of the Arts with distinction and received an MFA Fellowship from San Francisco Art Institute for graduate study in Painting, completed in 2018. Her work has been exhibited internationally and locally, including the de Young Museum and SFMOMA Artists Gallery, and is in private collections in Europe, South Africa, and the United States. Szabo is a two-time grant recipient from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. In addition to her painting practice, Szabo experiments in other media including the production of short dance films. She is also an experienced lecturer, seminar moderator, and studio art instructor. Lauren was the 2022 Artist in Residence at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and is currently a studio artist on campus.