EDUCATION
2013 MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA
2009 BA, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Thank you for the flowers, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
2015 Ex-Boyfriends, McGladrey Gallery, Bentley University, Waltham, MA
2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Ripening, Pen and Brush Gallery, New York, NJ
2018 Relationship Show, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2018 Horrorscapes, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2017 YOUNG, DUMB, AND BROKE, Extension Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Relationship Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Boulder, CO
2015 On Photography, John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston, MA
2014 I Want to Smell Your Hair, New Art Center, Newton, MA
2014 20th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2014 Shoot & Tell, StoneCrop Gallery, York, ME
2014 All Visual Triangle IV, The Carrack, Durham, NC
2014 Carousel V, New Art Center, Newton, MA (catalogue)
2013 Like a Rowboat: Looking Back and Moving Forward, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2013 ARTcetera 2013, Park Plaza Castle, Boston, MA, Extension Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 Young New England Photographers II (online exhibition)
2013 Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery at Boston University, Boston, MA
2013 Carousel IV, Spontaneous Celebrations, Jamaica Plain, MA
2013 All Visual Triangle Slideshow, Casbah, Durham, NC
2012 All Visual Boston Slideshow II, Spectacle, Jamaica Plain, MA (catalogue)
2012 Medium Without Measure, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2012 Proof of Purchase, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA
2012 PRC Student Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2012 Photography Annual, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2012 All Visual Boston Slideshow, Spectacle, Jamaica Plain, MA (catalogue)
2011 Photography Annual, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2011 Home is Where the Camera Is, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2011 PRC Student Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2009 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
PUBLICATIONS
2023 SPOTZ, PIX 025, New York, NY
2018 Aint–Bad, Issue no. 15, Savannah, GA
2017 Papersafe Magazine, Issue #09: Other Eden, edited by Vivan Ewing, Easthampton, MA
2017 Reflections on the Burden of Men, edited by Laura Beth Reese and Madeline Zappala, Boston, MA
2015 The Coorain Calendar, edited by Coorain Devin, Boston, MA
2011 Memory Full, Issue 2, edited by Trevor Powers, Boston, MA
2009 Muses, Allentown, PA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017 Reflections on the Burden of MenBoston, MA (art magazine, co-edited with Madeline Zappala)
2014 I Want to Smell Your Hair, New Art Center, Newton, MA (co-curated with Rob Chamberlin & Molly Segal)
BIBLIOGRAPHY/PRESS
2022 Not Real Art, 27 April. “Photographer Laura Beth Reese Reconnects with Her ‘Ex-Boyfriends’” by Morgan Laurens
2017 Aint–Bad, 4 December. "Laura Beth Reese"
2017 Big Red & Shiny, 28 September. "Reflecting on the Burden We Share: ROTBOM" by Casey Curry.
2017 LENSCRATCH, 25 January. "Relationship Show at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center" by Aline Smithson
2015 NO TOFU, 10 June. "Laura Beth Reese's Intimate Ex-Boyfriend Portraits"
2015 Flavorwire, 6 June. "Intimate Portraits of Ex-Lovers in Bed" by Alison Nastasi
2015 Cultura Colectiva, 10 May. "Retratos de mis ex, por Laura Beth Reese" by Pilar Turu
2015 Huffington Post, 7 May. "Photographer Snaps Portraits Of Her Exes, Embraces The Awkwardness Of It All" by Priscilla Frank
2015 Cosmopolitan, 1 May. "9 Intimate Portraits From a Photographers Revisiting Her Exes" by Mylan Torres & Blair Sylvester
2015 Feature Shoot. 30 April. "Photographer Creates Vulnerable Portraits of Her Exes in 'Ex-Boyfriends'" by Ellyn Kail
2015 Light Leaked, 9 February. "Laura Beth Reese"
AWARDS & GRANTS
2018 Review Santa Fe, CENTER
2015 Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
2012 Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, First Place, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
2012 Graduate Student Research Grant, Tufts University
2012 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Tufts University