Bio

Owen Marc Laurion (1988) was born and raised in New Hampshire. An interdisciplinary artist, he completed a BA in both Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of Rochester while taking independent studies in Ceramics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Owen earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute receiving the Robert Howe Fletcher Cup Award for Sculpture (2015). Since leaving the Bay Area, Owen has exhibited nationally and completed residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (VT), North Carolina Pottery Center(NC), Starworks(NC), Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio(IA), Red Lodge Clay Center (MT) and Knox College(IL). Currently, Owen lives in Portland, ME where he works and often collaborates with his partner, Jenelle Stafford an artist and filmmaker. He is the Ceramics Studio Technician and Adjunct Faculty at the Maine College of Art and Design.