Artist Monograph

Laura Owens, American

American, born 1970

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Watercolor	9	39.1%
Screenprint	8	34.8%
Oil Painting	2	8.7%
Acrylic Painting	1	4.3%
Other Media	1	4.3%
Lithography	1	4.3%
Tempera	1	4.3%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	20	87%
Painting & Sculpture	3	13%

Production by Decade

2000s

2010s

2020s

Classification Types

Drawing — 10
Illustrated Book — 8
Painting — 2
Print — 2
Installation — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	6	28.6%
Medium (30–100 cm)	12	57.1%
Large (1–3 m)	1	4.8%
Monumental (> 3 m)	2	9.5%

Range: 17.4 cm → 348.9 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
2001	1
2003	1
2005	6
2006	1
2013	2
2014	1
2017	8
2022	2
2025	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 23 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Untitled Drawing Acc. 2431.2001	2000	Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers, watercolor, and pencil on paper	39 x 27 1/2" (99 x 70 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of Contemporary Drawing
Untitled Drawing Acc. 385.2006	2001	Watercolor and pencil on paper	44 x 30 1/4" (111.8 x 76.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Fractional and promised gift of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg
Untitled Painting Acc. 587.2022	2002	Oil and acrylic on linen	7 × 11' (213.4 × 335.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Teiger Foundation in honor of David Teiger
Untitled (for Parkett no. 65) Print Acc. 30.2003	2002	Lithograph with collage additions	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Linda Barth Goldstein Fund
Gold Portrait Drawing Acc. 710.2022	2003	Watercolor, acrylic, ink, pencil, cut-and-pasted paper, and fabric on paper	24 × 18" (61 × 45.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Teiger Foundation in honor of David Teiger
Untitled Drawing Acc. 2607.2005	2003	Cut-and-pasted painted paper with watercolor and pencil on paper	10 1/2 x 7 1/8" (26.7 x 18.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Untitled Drawing Acc. 2608.2005	2003	Watercolor, ink, cut-and-pasted painted paper, transparentized paper, and pencil on paper	24 x 18" (61 x 45.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Untitled Drawing Acc. 2609.2005	2003	Ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper	10 1/2 x 7 1/8" (26.7 x 18.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Untitled Drawing Acc. 2610.2005	2003	Cut-and-pasted painted paper with watercolor, synthetic polymer paint, and colored pencil on paper	12 1/4 x 16 3/4" (31.1 x 42.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Untitled Drawing Acc. 2611.2005	2003	Cut-and-pasted printed paper, pressure-sensitive stickers, and watercolor on paper	12 1/2 x 9" (31.8 x 22.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Untitled Drawing Acc. 2612.2005	2003	Cut-and-pasted printed paper, pressure-sensitive stickers, and watercolor on paper	12 1/4 x 9 5/8" (31.1 x 24.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Untitled Drawing Acc. 864.2013	2003	Watercolor and pencil on paper	10 1/4 x 7" (26 x 17.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Morris Orden in honor of Connie Butler
Untitled Print Acc. 289.2014.a-c	2010	Set of three aquatints	plate (each): 31 x 23 1/8" (78.8 x 58.7 cm); sheet (each): 36 1/2 x 28 1/4" (92.7 x 71.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John Turner Fund
Untitled Painting Acc. 739.2013	2013	Acrylic, Flashe, and oil stick on canvas	137 3/8 x 119 7/8" (348.9 x 304.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Enid A. Haupt Fund
Beauty View Illustrated Book Acc. 313.2017	2015	Artist’s book, screenprinted and digitally printed, on paper, parchment, and bookboard	page (each): 16 7/16 × 9 3/4" (41.7 × 24.8 cm); overall (closed): 16 7/16 × 9 15/16 × 1 1/8" (41.7 × 25.2 × 2.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment
Untitled Illustrated Book Acc. 314.2017	2015	Artist’s book, screenprinted and digitally printed	overall (closed): 24 × 17 1/2 × 1" (61 × 44.5 × 2.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment
Untitled Illustrated Book Acc. 640.2017.1	2015/2017	Set of eleven zines, digitally printed, with screenprint on plexiglass covers	overall (closed): 9 × 8 × 3/4" (22.9 × 20.3 × 1.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	General Print Fund
Untitled Illustrated Book Acc. 640.2017.2	2015/2017	Screenprint	composition (irreg.): 6 7/8 × 2 3/4" (17.4 × 7 cm); sheet: 9 × 7 15/16" (22.8 × 20.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	General Print Fund
Untitled Illustrated Book Acc. 640.2017.1-2	2015/2017	Set of eleven zines, digitally printed, with screenprint on plexiglass covers and one loose screenprint	dimensions vary ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	General Print Fund
Untitled Illustrated Book Acc. 315.2017.a-b	2016	Artist's book with Flashe, charcoal, and screenprint on wallpaper, bookboard, and dyed linen, and sound device	overall (closed): 17 3/8 × 12 1/4 × 1" (44.1 × 31.1 × 2.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment
Untitled Illustrated Book Acc. 316.2017	2016	Artist's book with Flashe, charcoal, sand, and screenprint on wallpaper and board	overall (closed): 13 × 12 × 3/8" (33 × 30.5 × 0.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment
Untitled Illustrated Book Acc. 545.2017	2016	Artist's book with Flashe, charcoal, and screenprint on wallpaper, bookboard, and dyed linen, and sound device	page (each): 16 15/16 × 11 7/8" (43 × 30.2 cm); overall (closed): 17 3/8 × 12 5/16 × 1 7/16" (44.1 × 31.2 × 3.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Sadie Coles HQ
Untitled Installation Acc. 157.2025	2025	Paper mounted to aluminum panels, egg tempera on panel, video and sound (video runtime 16 minutes 17 seconds; audio runtime 80 minutes)	Overall dimensions variable ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Purchase and gift of Jeanne C. Thayer (by exchange)