S e l e c t e d S o l o E x h i b i t i o n s
2022 Mudlark, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Unmoored, School of Visual Arts, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2019 Confluence, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2010 Where Danger or Dishonor Lurks, Prospect New Orleans 1.5 Exhibition, curated by Dan Cameron at Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2010 Mourning Portrait, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Mourning Portrait, The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Henderson, NC
2009 Trace, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture: Loren Schwerd, Dana Women Artist Series, Douglas Library Series, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Mourning Portrait, EJ Bellocqu Gallery, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
Mourning Portrait, AMMO Gallery, New Orleans, LA
S e l e c t e d G r o u p E x h i b i t i o n s
2024 Art + Environment, Southeastern University, Hammond, LA
ArtFields, Lake City, SC
2023 Southern Voices/Global Visions, co-curators: Dr. Amalia Amaki and Eleanor Heartney, Project of South Arts and Art Fields, Lake City, SC (catalog)
2022 Louisiana Biennial, Juror: Rebecca Hart, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
2021 Materials: Hard + Soft, International Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX (catalog)
2017 Ephemera Obscura, curator: Aaron Levi Garvey, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2016 Activism in Art: Art Changes Things, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
2015 Reverb, curator: Isolde Brielmaier, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Intertwined: Contemporary Southeastern Fiber Art, Southeastern Fiber Arts Alliance, traveling exhibition: Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA,Lamar Arts, Barnesville, GA, Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts, Valdosta, GA (catalog)
2014 Homeland [IN]Security: Vanishing Dreams, curator: Margaret Mathews- Berenson, DORSKY Gallery, Long Island City, NY http://www.dorsky.org/Brochure%20PDFs/1412homeland_low.pdf
After Life, curator: Kristine Thompson, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
Fail-Safe: Discomforts Close to Home, curator: Marci Rae McDade, traveling exhibition: Craft
Alliance, St. Louis, MO, Hap Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2013 Kama: Sex and Design, La Triennale di Milano Design Museum, Milan, Italy (catalog)
2012 Past is Present: Contemporary Approaches to Historical Decorative Arts and Design, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
Vicissitudes: New Orleans, Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
2011 Venerate: Collectors of the Human Condition, two-person exhibition with Marco Zamora UMW Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Extreme Materials, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2010 Aftermath, Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Unraveling Tradition: Contemporary Artists Working with Fiber Media, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2009 Hair on Fire, Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
Found Object, three-person exhibition with Pam Longobardi and Donna Mintz, Brenau University Gallery, Gainesville, GA
2008 Social Construct/Human Nature, satellite exhibition of Prospect One New Orleans Biennial, Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA
New: 2008, Penland Gallery, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2007 Simple Truths, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AS
2006 Dada Domestique, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
2005 Saltline Biennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Homegrown: Southeast, Southeastern Contemporary Art Center, Winston-Salem, NC. [catalog)
P u b l i c A r t C o m m i s s i o n
2017 Arcadia, Richland Cooper Library Public Art Commission, Columbia, SC
2004 Autumn, Commissioned Site Work, Accessibility Festival, Sumter, SC. [catalog]
2002 Epitaph, Commissioned for In Response: Temporary 9/11 Memorial Project, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2001 Cloaks, Commissioned site work for the 2001 Piccolo Spoleto Festival Exhibition, Charleston, SC
C o l l e c t i o n s
2012 Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
2001 Wright State University, Dayton, OH
A w a r d s & R e s I d e n c I e s
2021 Joan Mitchell Center Studio Residency, New Orleans, LA
2021 Moab Arts Reuse Residency, Moab, UT (canceled due to pandemic)
2013 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Resident Artist Program, Otis, OR
National Park Service Artist-in-Residence, Grand Canyon, AZ
2012 LSU College of Art and Design Outstanding Teacher Award
2011 Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Art, Red Wing, MN
2009 Djerassi Resident Artist Program
2008 The Enclave at I Park Resident Artist Program
2007 Art Omi International Artists’ Residency
Blue Mountain Center Artist’s Residency
2006 Artist in Residence, Millay Colony for the Arts
2001 Southeastern College Art Conference Artist Fellowship
1997 Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
C u r a t o r i a l P r o j e c t s
2018 Feminum, Texas Sculpture Symposium, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
S e l e c t e d B i b l i o g r a p h y
2024 Hemmings, Jessica. “Toward a Minor Textile Architecture: Kathryn Clark, Loren Schwerd and Igshaan Adams’, Chapter for the “Sites & Spaces” section edited by Kerstin Meincke and Kerstin Pinther, Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Theories, Sites and Research Methods (Intellect: 2024)
2019 Berry, Esther R. “Hurricane Katrina Hair: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Commemorative Hair Form and Fragments Through the “Mourning Portraits” of Loren Schwerd,” Fashion Studies Volume 2, Issue 1, ISSN 2371-3453, https://www.fashionstudies.ca/hurricane-katrina-hair/
2017 Lee, Anne and E. Ashley Rooney, “Loren Schwerd”, Artistry in Fiber, Vol. 2: Sculpture, Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, p.182-183 (print)
2016 Lee, Anne and E. Ashley Rooney, “Home Reconsidered,” Fiber Art Now Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 4, Summer, p 40-41 (print)
"Haar als Material,” (Hair as Material) Textiel Plus Magazine, issue 235, Spring, Scala Media: Alkmaar, the Netherlands, p.10-11 ISSN 0927-7560
2014 “City of Memory”, Documentary Film by Robert Adanto, I hr 18 mins
2012 Roberts, Kristy. “Felt Space: Responsive Textiles, Fabric Dwellings and Precarious Housing,” Textiles and Politics, Textile Society of America 13th Biennial Symposium, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, September 18-22, 2012
“Loren Schwerd,” zhonghua shou gong za zhi she (Chinese Handicraft Magazine), issue 3, p13 Hong Kong, ISSN 1672-6766 (print)
2011 Kunreuther, Howard and Erwann Michel-kerjan, “People Get Ready,” Issues in Science & Technology, The National Academy of Sciences and the University of Texas in Dallas, Volume XXVIII, Fall, p 39-50. (print)
Mir Soria, Patricia “Cabelleras Metaforicas,” Revista de Estetica y Art Contemporaneo, CBN Press No.2, December, Cover and p 82 (print) https://collblanc2.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/cbn_02.pdf
2009 Love Design, edited by Paula Bjaringer, Daab Publishing, Cologne, Germany.
Design 360 Magazine, published by Sandu Cultural Media,Guangzhou/Shanghai/Hong Kong
2008 FiberArts Magazine, Artist Profile: Loren Schwerd, by Sally Hansell, November-December (Cover)
2004 FiberArts Design Book 7, Published by Lark Books, Ashville, NC