Lauren Portada’s work aims to decipher her relationship with the natural world 
while admittedly romanticizing the majestic landscape. Within these ideas is 
the understanding that our relationship to our surroundings is at once clean, 
sterile and removed. Her use of color and texture dirty and saturate that which 
is pristine, and forms gives rise to ideas of wholeness and truth. 
 

She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York and considers herself a jack of 
many trades. Having grown up in the Hudson Valley, NY, nestled in the green of 
rolling pastures, she often imagined living on the coast of a tropical island 
with a coconut farm. She has had shows in NYC, Chicago, Boston and India.