Curriculum Vitae
Awards / recognition
• 17th International Garden Photographer of the Year 2024, “Abstract Views, Third Place" and “Portfolio,” Cambridge University Botanical Gardens, UK - thru May 20
• “2023 Finalists,” Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200
• “Honrable Mention” Open, Praxis Gallery, Juror: Aline Smithson, Minneapolis, MN
• “Special Recognition” 44th Annual Photography Show, Carriage Barn Art Center, Juror: Marina Chao, New Canaan, CT
• “Visual Artist” Finalist, 2023, Arts Council of Rockland County, NY
• “First Place,” 18th National Photography Competition, Fotofoto Gallery, Juror: Alex Ferrone, Huntington, NY. 2023
• “Curator’s Choice.” The Artist Intervenes, Praxis Gallery, Juror: Aline Smithson
• Fraction Magazine 12.13.22
• Lenscratch photography blog 3.2.2022
• A Photo Editor blog by Jonathan Blaustein 4.22.2022
• 3rd Place, Abstract Views, International Garden Photographer of the Year, 2021, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
• Top 40 Images 2019, LA/NY Photo Curator
• 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers (non-pro), Winner:
• 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers (non-pro), Winner: “Cell Phone” and “Nature” Series, Jurors: Elizabeth Avedon, Rebecca Robertson. FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• Martha Rivers Ingram Excellence in the Arts Award 2017
• Best in Show - 2017 Camera Works, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Juror Rebecca Robertson, CT
• Best in Show - 2013 VCS Rockland Pride Exhibit, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Exhibitions
Solo
2025
• Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Library, Piermont, NY - July
2023
• In Lieu of Flowers, Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT
• In Lieu of Flowers, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC
2022
• Flowers Everywhere, Davis Orton Gallery, Juror: Karen Davis, Hudson, NY
2018
• Car Parts: Metallic Transports, Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY
2017
• Rockland Reverso, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY
2014
• Artist of the Month, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY
2013
• Laurie Peek Photographs, Stream Studio, Nyack, NY
• Environs, Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Library, Piermont, NY
2012
• Wet II, Grape D'vine, Tappan, NY
• Wet: Watery Revelations, Tappan Library, NY
Group
2025
• Mihail Zakin Gallery, The Art School at Old Church, 2-person show, Juror: Dr. Jerry James, Demarest, NJ - March
2024
• 17th International Garden Photographer of the Year, “Abstract Views, Third Place" and “Portfolio,” Cambridge University Botanical Gardens, UK - thru May 20
• Edward Hopper House Museum Spring Open, Nyack, NY - May 30 - June 16
• Flora, SE Center for Photography, Juror: Wendi Schneider, Greenville, SC - May
• Lens 2024, Perspective Gallery, Juror: Aline Smithson, Evanston, IL
• Alchemy, four-person show, Gallery40, Poughkeepsie, NY - May 4 - 26
• Open, Praxis Gallery, Juror: Aline Smithson, Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 17 - March 9, “Honrable Mention”
• Car Parts: Metallic Transports, (5-person show), Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY - Jan. 10 - Feb. 4
•Ordinary Extraordinary, Upstream Gallery, Juror: Dave Shelley, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY - Feb.
• 44th Annual Photography Show, Carriage Barn Art Center, Juror: Marina Chao, New Canaan, CT “Special Recognition”
• Celebrate 50 Years of Art, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT, Jan. 13 - Feb. 11
• 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, “Alt. Process Hon. Mention,” Juror: Julio Hirsch-Hardy, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain - Dec.
• Summer Salon, PerryLawson Fine Art, Nyack, NY - June 21 - Aug. 4.
• From a Seed, NY Center for Photographic Art, juror: Lee Anne White, online gallery & catalog
• 20th Pollux Awards, “Digital Manipulation & Collage, Honorable Mention,” Jurors: Frank Meo, Julio Hirsch-Hardy, FortNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain - December
• 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, “Digital Manipulation & Collage, Honorable Mention,” Jurors: Elizabeth Avedon, Anne Jastrab, Elizabeth Krist, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain - April
• Art of Healing, Englewood Health Hospital/The Art School at Old Church, Englewood, NJ - Sept. 2023 - Aug. 2024
2023
• Edward Hopper House Museum Juried Members Exhibition, juror: Sabrina Blaichman (Karma Gallery), Nyack, NY
• Winter Solstice, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
• New York — Place of Longing, Hans Weiss Gallery, Vienna, Austria, Nov. 4-11
• Center Forward, Center for Fine Art Photography, Jurors: Hamidah Glasgow & Charles Guice, Ft. Collins, CO (online)
• Member September, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC
• Carriage Barn 2023 Annual Members Show, New Canaan, CT
• Photography and Sculpture Show 2023, Rowayton Arts Center, Juror: Hans Neleman, Rowayton, CT (“2nd Place”)
• Off the Clock 2023, APA LA, online, Juror: Darius Himes
• The Photo Review online exhibition
• Summertime Celebration, Rockefeller State Park Preserve Art Gallery, Juror: Audrey Leeds, Pleasantville, NY
• Hold Up Half the Sky, Dallas Center of Photography, Juror: Aline Smithson, Dallas, TX
• Viewpoints, Montclair Studio, Juror: Dierdra Harris-Kelley, Montclair, NJ
• Spectrum “Passages,” Carriage Barn, Jurors: Rachel Palacios & Heather Gaudio, New Canaan, CT
• 19th Pollux Awards Exhibition, FotoNostrum Gallery, Jurors: Stephen Perloff, Julio Hirsch-Hardy, Barcelona, Spain - Dec.
• Allegheny Annual National Photography Competition, Juror: Todd Tubutis, Cumberland, MD
• The Artist Intervenes, Praxis Gallery, Juror: Aline Smithson, Minneapolis, MN - “Curator’s Choice”
• 18th National Photography Competition, Fotofoto Gallery, Juror: Alex Ferrone, Huntington, L.I., NY “1st Place”
• Enigma, Upstream Gallery, Juror: Dave Shelley, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
• 43rd Annual Photography Show, Carriage Barn, New Canaan, CT
• Behind the Lens: Everything is Different or Six Degrees…, Juror: David DeMelim, RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
• 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, FotoNostrum Gallery, Juror: Barbara Davidson, Barcelona, Spain
• Open/Unfiltered, A Smith Gallery, Juror: Kevin Tully, Jan.-Feb. (online)
• Open, SE Center for Photography, Juror: Christa Dix, Greenville, SC
• Garrison Members Exhibition, Garrison Art. Center, Garrison, NY
• Rockland Center for the Arts Members Exhibition, W. Nyack, NY
2022
• Winter Solstice 2022, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
• Small Works, Garrison Art Center, Juror: Carl Van Brunt, Garrison, NY
• Art, Design & the Automobile, Carriage Barn Art Center, Ridgefield, CT
• Comeback, LA Center for Photography Members Juried Exhibition (online), Juror: Samantha Johnston
• Nocturnes, Praxis Gallery, Juror: Wendi Schneider, Minneapolis, MN
• Macro: Larger than Life, Praxis Gallery, Jurors: Praxis Directors, Minneapolis, MN
• Floral Expressions, Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY Aug. - Jan., 2023
• Carriage Barn 45th Members’ Exhibition, New Canaan, CT
• Ignite!, Bau Gallery, Jurors: Kathleen Vance, Daniel Aycock, Beacon, NY
• Flow, 2-person exhibition, Lagstein Gallery, Nyack, NY
• Expanding Boundaries: PaperWorks 2022, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
• 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, Non-Pro, Alternative Processes, Series, Jurors: KK DePaul, Isabela Pacini, Snezhana von Büdingen, and N.A. Vague, FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
• Griffin Museum of Photography 28th Annual Members Juried Exhibition, Jurors: Frances Jakubek and Iaritza Menjivar, Winchester, MA
• Soho Photo Gallery National Competition, Juror: Mercedes Jelinek, NYC
• International Garden Photographer of the Year, Abstract Views, 3rd Place Winner, Kew Gardens, London, UK
• Any Shape or Form, Upstream Gallery, Juror: Dave Shelley, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
• 2.22.22 Pairs online exhibition on Lenscratch, Juror: Aline Smithson
• Barcelona Foto Biennale, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Non-Pro, Honorable Mention: Abstract & Still Life Series Category, FotoNostrum Gallery, Jurors: Laura Noble, Jennie Rickets, Barcelona, Spain
• Garrison Art Center Members’ Exhibit, Garrison, NY
• Rockland Center for the Arts Members’ Exhibit, West Nyack, NY
2021
• Art of Healing, Englewood Health Center, Englewood, NJ, Juror: The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
2020
• About Women: Celebrating Women’s Artistic Contributions, Lockwood Mathews Museum, Juror: Silvermine Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
• Brilliant Botanicals: Alchemic Transformations, ArtSuite NY Gallery, Piermont NY
• 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, (non-pro), “Honorable Mention” for 17 photos in categories: Abstract, Cell Phone, Children, Collage, and Fine Art, Juror: Elizabeth Avedon, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• Small Works, Five-Points Center for Visual Arts, Juror: Power Boothe, Torrington, CT
• Water, A. Smith Gallery, Juror: Doug Beasley, Johnson City, TX
• Gift of Art, Piermont Library, Piermont, NY
• 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, (non-pro) Category Winner: “Cell Phone” & “Nature” series, Honorable Mention: “Fine Art” & “Alternative Processes” series, Jurors: Elizabeth Avedon, Rebecca Robertson, Analy Werbin, Gallery FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
2019
• Summertime, A. Smith Gallery, Juror: Jennifer Shaw, Johnson City, TX
• First Street Gallery 2019 National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Nancy Margolis, NYC
• 7th Open, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Juror: Neal Rantoul, Providence, RI
• About Lighting, L. A. Photo Curator (online,) Juror: Paul Ivanushka
• Momentum, New York Center for Photographic Art (online), Juror: Debra Klompching, NYC
• Small Works, Robert Anderson Gallery, Jurors: Margy Dudley, Wendi Schneider, Denver, CO
• Diptych, A. Smith Gallery, Juror: Kevin Tully, Johnson City, TX,
• black/white, A. Smith Gallery, Juror: Jennifer Schlesinger, Johnson City, TX
• The Naked Print, R.I. Center for Photography, Juror: Stephen Fisher, Providence, RI
• A Color Moment, PhotoPlace Online Gallery, Juror: Arthur Meyerson, Middlebury, VT
• Top 40 Images 2019, LA/NY Photo Curator (online)
2018
• Abstract, Center for Fine Art Photography, Juror: Elizabeth Houston, Ft. Collins, CO
• InsideSmall, Outside In Gallery, Piermont, NY
• Art is the Voice of CT, Silvermine Photographers Exhibit, Hearst CT Media Group, Norwalk, CT
• Center for Photography at Woodstock Benefit Auction, Kingston, NY
• From the Studio, The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
• Light and Shadow Black & White Photography, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY
• Silvermine Artists Guild Pop-Up Exhibit, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
• Edward Hopper House Museum Members Exhibit, Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY
• Silvermine Artists' Guild New Members Exhibit, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
• Blue Door Juried Members’ Exhibit, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, Bronx, NY
2017
• All Art+, Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC
• Local Love, Volition Gallery, Orangeburg, NY
• Camera Works 2017, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, "Best in Show" Juror: Rebecca Robertson, Ridgefield, CT
• Photography Takes Over 2017, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
2016
• Eye of the Beholder: Art Through the Lens, My Own Little Gallery, Nyack, NY
• Summer Exhibition, Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery, Vytlacil / Art Students League, Sparkill, NY
• Aesthetic Sensory, (2-person exhibit), Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY
2015
• Ode To Earth, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
• Juried Rockland County Pride Benefit, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY
• Summer Exhibition, Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery, Vytlacil / Art Students League, Sparkill, NY
2014
• Artoberfest, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY
• PHOTOCentric, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
• Carriage Barn Members’ Show, New Canaan, CT
• Homage to Hopper, Nyack Art Collective, Nyack, NY
• VCS Gay Pride Rockland, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY
• Fashion As Art, Gallery 66, Cold Spring, NY
• Photography Takes Over, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
• Members' Exhibition, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY
2013
• Postcards from Piermont, Piermont Library, Piermont, NY
• Change / Transformation, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
• VCS Gay Pride Exhibit, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY ("Best in Show")
• Nyack Art Collective Exhibit, Nyack Library, Nyack, NY
• The Documentary Continues: Women in Social Commentary Photography, Dorothea Lange Sidebar, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY
• Riverside Silent Auction, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
• SNAP: Love that Park, Rockefeller State Park Preserve Gallery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
• Photography Takes Over, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
• Rockland Center for the Arts Members' Exhibit, W. Nyack, NY
• Edward Hopper House Members' Exhibit, Nyack, NY
• Gift of Art, Piermont Library, Piermont, NY
• Resurrection, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY
• Artists on Location, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
• The Piermont Marsh as Muse, Piermont Library, Piermont, NY
• Story of the Creative, See.Me - NYC
2012
• Attitude, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY
• Animal Life, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
Publications & Media
• Momentum, New York Center for Photographic Art, 2019 Juror: Debra Klompching
• The Photo Review Magazine 2019 Competition Issue
• The New York Times, Boston Globe, Brooklyn Paper, City Limits, The Progressive, Soho News, PHOTOCentric 2014 Catalog
• Films: 2003 Oscar-nominated Tupac: Resurrection and 2012 Koch.
Online
• Healing Nature, Artdoc Magazine 10.2023
• Fraction Magazine 12.13.22
• A Photo Editor blog by Jonathan Blaustein 4.22.2022
• Lenscratch photography blog by Linda Alterwitz 3.2.2022
• LA PhotoCurator Global Photography Awards: “Where Philanthropy and Photography Meet”
• Fraction Magazine's 10th Anniversary Issue, 2018
• Photography Now 2017, Center for Photography at Woodstock
• Nyack News & Views Local Arts Index Profile
Collections
• Visual Studies Workshop, Movement: Selections from the First Decade of the Visual Studies Workshop
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston
• Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Center for Photography at Woodstock
• Center (Santa Fe)
biography
With experience in the visual arts as an archivist, educator, documentarian and fine artist, for over a decade Laurie Peek has been focused on creating and sharing her art full-time. Recovering from a personal tragedy, she has most recently been using her photography to explore the meaning of love and loss, grief and healing.
Peek grew up on the Gulf coast of Florida, where she spent most of her childhood playing outside in the lush Florida landscape and in its waters, giving her a long-time fascination with flora and water. Attending high school in Charleston, SC, she soaked up the unique atmosphere and culture of that historic city.
A photography residency at Apeiron Workshop in Millerton, NY was her first extensive encounter with some of the masters of photography like Emmet Gowin, Paul Caponigro and Danny Lyon. It cemented her decision to continue her education in photography. She obtained her Masters of Fine Arts in Photography in 1978 at the Visual Studies Workshop / SUNY Buffalo studying with Nathan Lyons, Syl Labrot, Todd Walker, and Hollis Frampton. Working part-time at the George Eastman House Museum of Photography, she immersed herself in the GEH photo archives and exhibitions. After teaching photography for two years in D.C., she moved to NYC and became a photo librarian for The Bettmann Archive (now part of Getty Images) and then Sygma Photo News.
Having a first-hand look at news coverage while working at Sygma and wanting to use her photography skills “to make a difference,” Peek became a journalist, photojournalist and PR photographer. Capturing the labor-union handshake that ended the 1980 transit strike was her first big break when the Soho Photo News reporter asked to use her photo for the cover. She went on to freelance for numerous publications including The Village Voice, City Limits, and The Progressive, and she became a staff photographer for The Brooklyn Paper, covering politics, housing, the women's and anti-nuke movements, and more. As staff photographer for NYC’s Dept. of General Services, she roamed the city documenting its community gardens, housing, and Mayor Ed Koch.
Moving to Rockland County, a suburb of NYC, Peek put aside her photography to raise a family and pursue a second career selling creative services to corporations for creative production companies. She fully re-engaged with the art world a decade ago when she became Director of Administration and Gallery Manager for The Art Students League’s Vytlacil campus in Sparkill, NY, assisting with their residency program, promotion, and gallery exhibitions.
In recent years, Peek has been exhibiting her photography widely across the US and internationally. Solo shows include: Flowers Everywhere, Davis-Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY; Car Parts: Metallic Transports, Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY; and Rockland Reverso, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY.
She has participated in numerous group shows at: A. Smith Gallery, ArtSuiteNY Gallery, Bau Gallery, Berlin Blue Gallery, Blue Door Art Center, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Carriage Barn Arts Center, Center for Photography, C4FPA, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Dallas Center for Photography, Five Points Arts, Foley Gallery, FotoNostrum Gallery, Gallery 66, Garner Arts Center, Garrison Art Center, Griffin Museum of Photography, Hopper House Museum, LACP, LA Photo Curator, Lagstein Gallery, Lockwood Museum, PhotoPlace Gallery, Pomona Arts Center, Praxis Gallery, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Robert Anderson Gallery, Rockland Center for the Arts, Rowayton Arts Center, SE Center for Photography, Soho Photo Gallery, Union Arts Center, Upstream Gallery, Van Der Plas Gallery.
In 2023 Peek has been selected as a Finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass competition. In 2022 Peek was awarded “International Garden Photographer of the Year, 3rd Place Abstract Views,” Kew Gardens, London, UK, and for the last seven years she has been juried into the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers competition c/o the FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain.
Her work has been published and reviewed in print and online at, among others: Fraction Magazine 12.13.22, A Photo Editor 4-2022, Lenscratch 3-2-2022, The Photo Review 2019 Competition issue, and Fraction Magazine 10th Anniversary issue, 2018.
Peek currently resides with her husband in the Hudson Valley, where, in addition to her photography, she tends to her garden, swims in her pool, practices East Asian brush painting, and supports local environmental and civic causes.