Lauren Yeager

Lauren Yeager (Cleveland, OH) re-imagines commonplace objects as sculptural components. Using salvaged materials, she references classical and modernist forms through sculptures that recover and elevate the value of these reclaimed objects.

Yeager received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2009. Since then, her work has been highlighted in several important national and regional exhibitions, including Sculpture Milwaukee 2021, FRONT International 2018, NMWA: Women to Watch - Ohio, and MOCA Cleveland’s Realization is Better than Anticipation. Most recently, she was selected to represent the United States at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale for the exhibition Everlasting Plastics. For the Biennale, she was commissioned to create a collection of thirteen sculptures for the courtyard of the US Pavilion. These works have since been exhibited at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2024 and SPACES, Cleveland, 2025. Her work is in the collections of Progressive Insurance, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the CWRU Putnam Sculpture Collection, and other prominent private collections. In 2021, she was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artists. Recent press includes The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Whitewall, and Archinect.