Lanecia A. Rouse
b. 1978, Atlanta, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, REMAINS, San Jacinto College Central Gallery, Pasadena, TX
2023, BETWIXT, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
2022, Resuming Round 51, "From Dusk to Dawn: The Poetics of Being", Project Row Houses Community Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, Reliquary of Complicated Truths for the Everything Happens Project, Duke University Chapel, Durham, NC
2021, on the bridge between, Four Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2019, Within/Without, Forth and Nomad Gallery, Houston, TX
2017, Exquisite Reverie, Inversion Coffee + Art, , Houston, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
2024, Switchyard: Works on Paper, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2024, The Art of Collage, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2024, Cabin Fever, 1708 Gallery Annual Fundraiser, Richmond, VA
2024, Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2023, Mulitiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
2023, re [], The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC
2023, Boundless, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2023, A Look Ahead, Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, Spiral, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022, Black Love Now, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, ... and then there was (always), Art is Bond. Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, Artists on Site: Series 3, Asia Society TX, Houston, TX
2022, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston 2022 Gala + Auction, Houston, TX
2022, To Each, Her On, ArtLeadHer, Urban Zen Gallery, New York City, NY
2022, Standing Still, The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC
2022, Houston Forever, Prauper Studios, Houston, TX
2021, Fragmented Memoirs: Akilah Watts and Lanecia Rouse Tinsley, LiveArtMarket, New York City, NY
2021, Reconstructing Deconstruction, The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC
2021, Truth Be Told: Seek What is Hidden, ArtLeadHer, Urban Zen Gallery, New York City, NY
2021, Color Story, City of Houston, Houston, TX
2021, Collect it for the Culture III, Houston, TX
2020, Hearts, Hands and Heritage, Community Artists' Collective, Houston, TX
2020, Animal Crossing, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2019, Spectra, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids. MI
2019, DITA 10Year Anniversary Exhibition, Duke University Chapel, Durham, NC
2018, Transfigured: A Contemporary Art Exhibit Featuring the Parament Collection of Lanecia A. Rouse Tinsley, Holy Family HTX, Houston, TX
2017, Renaissance 12:21, Four Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2016, Community Artists' Collective, Objects of Art & Craft, Houston, TX
INSTALLATIONS
2020, Round 51: Local Impact II at Project Row Houses, "Otherwise" Perception
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2023, Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, Charleston, SC
2022, Artists on Site: Series 3 at the Asia Society TX, Houston, TX
2020-2021, CERCL at Rice University Artist-in-Residence, Houston, TX
2020, The Creator’s Table, Spokane, WA
2018, The American Church in Paris, Paris, France
SELECTED SPEAKING + PANEL ENGAGEMENTS
2021, Faith + Life Lecture Series, Minnesota, MN
2020, The Breath & The Clay Online International Gathering, Greensboro, NC
2019, Art and the City: State of Black Houston Anniversary Symposium Panel, Moderator, The Gregory School, Houston, TX
2019, In Conversation with Kate Bowler (moderator) + Christian Wiman, Duke Initiative in Theology + the Arts, Durham, NC
2019, Faith in the Arts: A Theology of Making Panel with guest lecturer Makoto Fujimura, Fuller Theological Seminary Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
2018, Faith in the Arts Panel, Fuller Theological Seminary Texas, The Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2024, Haystack Mountain Craft School, Deer Isle, Maine
2024, The Glen Workshop, Seattle, WA
2023, The Glen Workshop, Seattle, WA
2022, Shakerag Workshops, Kindred: An Experience of Poetry and Mixed Media Painting (Co-Facilitated with Ciona Rouse), Sewanee, TN
2020, The Glen Workshop Online, Introduction to Abstract Expressionist Painting
2019, The Glen Workshop, Introduction to Abstract Expressionist Painting, Santa Fe, NM
2019, Visual Poetry: Mixed Media Encaustic Class, Grunewald Guild, Plain, WA
2019, Abstract Acrylics Class, Grunewald Guild, Plain, WA
2019, Wabi Sabi + Pottery Workshop, The Jung Center, Houston, TX
2018, Visual Poetry: Mixed Media Encaustic Class, Grunewald Guild, Plain, WA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2016-Present, Artist-in-Residence Partner (teaching, curation and Artists' Collective leader) of Holy Family HTX, Houston, TX
2015-2017, St. Paul's UMC After School Program Art Teacher, Houston, TX
2011-2014, Director of The Art Project, Houston
PUBLICATION FEATURES
Gulf Coast Journal, Winter/Spring 2023 Volume 35 Issue 1
Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue 4, January 2022
Abstractions Magazine Issue 1, Fall 2021
The Good Word, PreacherAustin, May 2021
Copan, Lil: "In All Seasons," Christianity Today, March 2021
“Houston 2030," Houston City Book, March 2020
McKenzie, Zachery: “Human Nature," Houston City Book, May 2019
Gordon, Maggie: “After Losing Child, Houston Preacher-Turned-Artist Does Her ‘Crazy Thing’," Houston Chronicle, November 15, 2017
Ables, Beth: "Creating With Intention", Trouve Magazine, Volume 2, 2014
TEXTS
“Creating Without Walls,” In Her Studio Magazine, 2019
SELECTED PODCASTS + ONLINE INTERVIEWS
2021, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, How Can We Find Clarity Through Art? with Lanecia Rouse
2020, “Otherwise” Perception: A Conversation on Art, Perception, and the Imagination with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley and Dr. Jessica B. Davenport, Project Row Houses Media,
2020, Summer Stage Series Online Studio Visit + Conversation with Lanecia, Image Journal
2019, Opening the Door: A Conversation with Abstract Painter Lanecia, The Image Journal
2019, Impermanence with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley, Makers + Mystics
2019, Sacred Gumbo and the Art of Toni Morrison, The Relay
2018, Lanecia Rouse: Death, Life and Full-time Art, Beyond with Daphne Cohn
2017, Light + Darkness with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley, The H
2017, The Colors of the Calendar with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley, Holy Family HTX
KNOWN COLLECTIONS
Google, Houston, TX
Holy Family HTX Episcopal, Houston, TX
J. Van Ness + M. London Collection
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL
Stardust Fund, Houston, TX
Sweetgreen, Houston, TX
The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC
The Everything Happens Project, Durham, NC
The American Church in Paris, Paris, France
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024, VisArts Annual Resident Exhibition: Dream Manual, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2023, SWATHE: Works by Ellen Cline, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX
2023, Intersections IV: Story Lines featuring the work of the 2022 HFHTX Artists' Collective, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX (Co-curator)
2022, in knots: poetry in word and thread by Sara Triana, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, Boundary Crossings: New Paintings by Bruce Herman, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX
2021, Intersections III: Art Made During Quarantine, Houston, TX
2020, Intersections II: A Contemporary Art Exhibit II, Houston, TX
2019, Intersections: A Contemporary Art Exhibit, Houston, TX
2018, Transfigured: HFHTX 2017 Artists' Collective Art Exhibit, Houston, TX
2016, BLMHTX Symposium Art Exhibition at Rice University, Houston, TX
2016, BLMHTX Symposium Art Exhibition at Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
2015, Image A World BLMHTX Symposium Art Exhibition, Houston, TX
BOARDS
2023-to present, Image Journal
EDUCATION
Duke Divinity School, Masters of Divinity, 2003
Wofford Collage, Bachelor of Arts Sociology, 2000
b. 1978, Atlanta, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, REMAINS, San Jacinto College Central Gallery, Pasadena, TX
2023, BETWIXT, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
2022, Resuming Round 51, "From Dusk to Dawn: The Poetics of Being", Project Row Houses Community Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, Reliquary of Complicated Truths for the Everything Happens Project, Duke University Chapel, Durham, NC
2021, on the bridge between, Four Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2019, Within/Without, Forth and Nomad Gallery, Houston, TX
2017, Exquisite Reverie, Inversion Coffee + Art, , Houston, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
2024, Switchyard: Works on Paper, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2024, The Art of Collage, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2024, Cabin Fever, 1708 Gallery Annual Fundraiser, Richmond, VA
2024, Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2023, Mulitiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
2023, re [], The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC
2023, Boundless, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2023, A Look Ahead, Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, Spiral, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022, Black Love Now, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, ... and then there was (always), Art is Bond. Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, Artists on Site: Series 3, Asia Society TX, Houston, TX
2022, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston 2022 Gala + Auction, Houston, TX
2022, To Each, Her On, ArtLeadHer, Urban Zen Gallery, New York City, NY
2022, Standing Still, The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC
2022, Houston Forever, Prauper Studios, Houston, TX
2021, Fragmented Memoirs: Akilah Watts and Lanecia Rouse Tinsley, LiveArtMarket, New York City, NY
2021, Reconstructing Deconstruction, The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC
2021, Truth Be Told: Seek What is Hidden, ArtLeadHer, Urban Zen Gallery, New York City, NY
2021, Color Story, City of Houston, Houston, TX
2021, Collect it for the Culture III, Houston, TX
2020, Hearts, Hands and Heritage, Community Artists' Collective, Houston, TX
2020, Animal Crossing, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2019, Spectra, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids. MI
2019, DITA 10Year Anniversary Exhibition, Duke University Chapel, Durham, NC
2018, Transfigured: A Contemporary Art Exhibit Featuring the Parament Collection of Lanecia A. Rouse Tinsley, Holy Family HTX, Houston, TX
2017, Renaissance 12:21, Four Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2016, Community Artists' Collective, Objects of Art & Craft, Houston, TX
INSTALLATIONS
2020, Round 51: Local Impact II at Project Row Houses, "Otherwise" Perception
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2023, Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, Charleston, SC
2022, Artists on Site: Series 3 at the Asia Society TX, Houston, TX
2020-2021, CERCL at Rice University Artist-in-Residence, Houston, TX
2020, The Creator’s Table, Spokane, WA
2018, The American Church in Paris, Paris, France
SELECTED SPEAKING + PANEL ENGAGEMENTS
2021, Faith + Life Lecture Series, Minnesota, MN
2020, The Breath & The Clay Online International Gathering, Greensboro, NC
2019, Art and the City: State of Black Houston Anniversary Symposium Panel, Moderator, The Gregory School, Houston, TX
2019, In Conversation with Kate Bowler (moderator) + Christian Wiman, Duke Initiative in Theology + the Arts, Durham, NC
2019, Faith in the Arts: A Theology of Making Panel with guest lecturer Makoto Fujimura, Fuller Theological Seminary Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
2018, Faith in the Arts Panel, Fuller Theological Seminary Texas, The Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2024, Haystack Mountain Craft School, Deer Isle, Maine
2024, The Glen Workshop, Seattle, WA
2023, The Glen Workshop, Seattle, WA
2022, Shakerag Workshops, Kindred: An Experience of Poetry and Mixed Media Painting (Co-Facilitated with Ciona Rouse), Sewanee, TN
2020, The Glen Workshop Online, Introduction to Abstract Expressionist Painting
2019, The Glen Workshop, Introduction to Abstract Expressionist Painting, Santa Fe, NM
2019, Visual Poetry: Mixed Media Encaustic Class, Grunewald Guild, Plain, WA
2019, Abstract Acrylics Class, Grunewald Guild, Plain, WA
2019, Wabi Sabi + Pottery Workshop, The Jung Center, Houston, TX
2018, Visual Poetry: Mixed Media Encaustic Class, Grunewald Guild, Plain, WA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2016-Present, Artist-in-Residence Partner (teaching, curation and Artists' Collective leader) of Holy Family HTX, Houston, TX
2015-2017, St. Paul's UMC After School Program Art Teacher, Houston, TX
2011-2014, Director of The Art Project, Houston
PUBLICATION FEATURES
Gulf Coast Journal, Winter/Spring 2023 Volume 35 Issue 1
Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue 4, January 2022
Abstractions Magazine Issue 1, Fall 2021
The Good Word, PreacherAustin, May 2021
Copan, Lil: "In All Seasons," Christianity Today, March 2021
“Houston 2030," Houston City Book, March 2020
McKenzie, Zachery: “Human Nature," Houston City Book, May 2019
Gordon, Maggie: “After Losing Child, Houston Preacher-Turned-Artist Does Her ‘Crazy Thing’," Houston Chronicle, November 15, 2017
Ables, Beth: "Creating With Intention", Trouve Magazine, Volume 2, 2014
TEXTS
“Creating Without Walls,” In Her Studio Magazine, 2019
SELECTED PODCASTS + ONLINE INTERVIEWS
2021, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, How Can We Find Clarity Through Art? with Lanecia Rouse
2020, “Otherwise” Perception: A Conversation on Art, Perception, and the Imagination with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley and Dr. Jessica B. Davenport, Project Row Houses Media,
2020, Summer Stage Series Online Studio Visit + Conversation with Lanecia, Image Journal
2019, Opening the Door: A Conversation with Abstract Painter Lanecia, The Image Journal
2019, Impermanence with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley, Makers + Mystics
2019, Sacred Gumbo and the Art of Toni Morrison, The Relay
2018, Lanecia Rouse: Death, Life and Full-time Art, Beyond with Daphne Cohn
2017, Light + Darkness with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley, The H
2017, The Colors of the Calendar with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley, Holy Family HTX
KNOWN COLLECTIONS
Google, Houston, TX
Holy Family HTX Episcopal, Houston, TX
J. Van Ness + M. London Collection
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL
Stardust Fund, Houston, TX
Sweetgreen, Houston, TX
The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC
The Everything Happens Project, Durham, NC
The American Church in Paris, Paris, France
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024, VisArts Annual Resident Exhibition: Dream Manual, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2023, SWATHE: Works by Ellen Cline, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX
2023, Intersections IV: Story Lines featuring the work of the 2022 HFHTX Artists' Collective, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX (Co-curator)
2022, in knots: poetry in word and thread by Sara Triana, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX
2022, Boundary Crossings: New Paintings by Bruce Herman, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX
2021, Intersections III: Art Made During Quarantine, Houston, TX
2020, Intersections II: A Contemporary Art Exhibit II, Houston, TX
2019, Intersections: A Contemporary Art Exhibit, Houston, TX
2018, Transfigured: HFHTX 2017 Artists' Collective Art Exhibit, Houston, TX
2016, BLMHTX Symposium Art Exhibition at Rice University, Houston, TX
2016, BLMHTX Symposium Art Exhibition at Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
2015, Image A World BLMHTX Symposium Art Exhibition, Houston, TX
BOARDS
2023-to present, Image Journal
EDUCATION
Duke Divinity School, Masters of Divinity, 2003
Wofford Collage, Bachelor of Arts Sociology, 2000