LAURA SALLADE

Laura Sallade is an artist living and working in Philadelphia.

b.1990

Reading, PA

Without light we can’t see matter—inversely, without matter we can’t see light. This interdependent relationship is the crux of my practice. I’m interested in colloquial references to light as a fleeting presence—a shadow appears, the sun sets, a beam of light enters the room. In reality, we know that light is the constant and we are the variable—it’s our physical world that is shifting, our planet that is rotating, our galaxy that is hurtling through space. Hinging on situated knowledges of physics, I use glass, silver and chemical processes to capture moments of material flux and work into these paradoxical understandings.

Compelled to ground reality in the material world, I contend with the over filtration and diminishing returns of technological mediation by making work that walks the line between image and object. Giving agency to discarded matter, I facilitate its behavior and consider the accelerating shift of material ecologies. Salvaging and foraging glass from various contexts, I disrupt and conflate existing binaries between producer and consumer and track the lineage of glass while building new trajectories.

Glass has a unique ability to harness light and exists in the state between liquid and solid. Light, moreover, has elusive qualities of its own that even physicists have a hard time defining. I rely on these entangled and indeterminate qualities of both glass and light as I attempt to articulate the ineffable, reach for that which is beyond my comprehensive grasp, and narrow the gap between the seen and the unseen, material and immaterial.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Invisible thread, Connie A. Eastburn gallery, cairn university, Langhorne, PA

2022 Any Versus All, Massey klein Gallery, New York, ny

2020 Hindsight, Underscore Art Gallery, Whitefish, MT

2019 UNSEEN, Massey Klein Gallery, NEW YORK, NY

2018 Deep to Deep, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

EQUILIBRIUM, Werring contemporary, Devon, pa

craftforms, the wayne art center, wayne, pa

TBD, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

(two-person) Emergence, Werring Contemporary, Chester Springs, PA

volume iv, the living room gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Fragments, AnnMarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD

EXTRACTION & REPAIR, TYLER SCHOOL OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, PHILADELPHIA, PA

2024

(TWO-PERSON) METAPHYSICAL, WORKS ON PAPER GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA, PA

2023

Transformative Craft, Susquehannah Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Future Fair, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY

To Darken Lightly, LIC Art Center, New York, NY

New Now, Inliquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2022

Finding a memory, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA

nyc crit club group show, Gallery Ninedee, New York, ny

2021

Women Artists Breaking Out, Larchmont, NY

SHINE, AnnMarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD

NextFab Artisan Accelerator Show, Philadelphia PA

2020

Untitled, Five 3 Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2019

Naturals, NoBA ArtSpace, Philadelphia, PA

Willie Green: Press Play, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY

2018

Untitled, Old City jewish arts center, Philadelphia, PA

2017

Sallade, Scarpone, Dubinsky, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

(two-person)Blurred Lines, Massey Lyuben Gallery, Chelsea, NY

2016

Fall Collective, Massey Lyuben Gallery, Chelsea, NY

Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA

2015

Emerging Talent 2015, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia PA

Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA

Laura Sallade, Saxbys, Philadelphia, PA

2014

113th Annual Student Exhibition, PAFA Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Emerging Talent, L.G.Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia PA

The Satellite Show, The RePop Room, Chelsea, NY

2013

Through, Architeqt Gallery, Philadelphia PA

112th Annual Student Exhibition, PAFA Musuem, Philadelphia PA

Absolutely Abstract, The Sketchclub Gallery, Philadelphia PA

Laura sallade, Gallery 128, Philadelphia, PA

2012

111th Annual Student Exhibition, PAFA Musuem, Philadelphia PA

Perception: A Study in Ways of Seeing, Elixr, Philadelphia PA

Parktowne Place Group Show, Parktowne Place, Philadelphia PA

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS

2025

The Deans grant, Tyler School of Art & Architecture

2024

Graduate Assistantship & Scholarship, Tyler School of Art & Architecture

2023

SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland

Pilchuck Glass School Scholarship, Seattle, WA

2021

Lackland Well Artist in Residence, Farmville VA

NextFab Artisan Accelerator Fellowship

Michael Tomassoni Scholarship

Jurors Award, Ann Marie Sculpture Garden & Art Center

2019

Philly Current Magazine, Best of Philadelphia.

2014

Philadelphia Sculpture Gym Scholarship

Richard C. Von Hess Travel Scholarship

PAFA Fellowship Prize

2013

Jurors Award, Philadelphia Sketchclub

The Alexander Prize, Honorable Mention

Susan Land Memorial Prize for Printmaking

Marcia Lampert Prize for a Construction

2012

The Alexander Prize, Honorable Mention

Lucille Sorgenti Scholarship

Wolf Scholarship in Honor of Peter Paone

SELECT EDUCATION

2024

BFA, University of Pennsylvania (dual degree with PAFA Certificate)

Advanced certificate in creative writing, University of Pennsylvania

Certificate in Positive psychology, University of Pennsylvania

2014

honorary Fifth year, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2013

Certificate in Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

SELECT COLLECTIONS

Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Regions Plaza, Atlanta,GA

Atlantic Aviation Airport, Philadelphia, PA

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island, FL

Vail Resorts, Vail, CO

Anthropologie Clothing Stores, Philadelphia, PA & Chelsea, NY

Dualtone Music Group, Nashville, TN

PRESS/FEATURES

https://canvasrebel.com/meet-laura-sallade/https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/post/working-with-glass-public-project-advice-with-artist-laura-sallade

http://www.longwood.edu/art/about/news/articles/artist-laura-sallade-speaks-with-longwood-art-students-about-her-work-and-artistic-practice.php