Ghost of a Dream

Ghost of a Dream is the collaborative project of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom.

Above:

Mercy Mercy me, 2022
red tide and green algae images arranged and layered, printed and mounted on diabond
48 x 48 in.

They are featured in current solo exhibitions, Tomorrow is Here at the new MAAM museum in Boston, and Aligned by the Sun at the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill. Other recent solo exhibitions include A Devil to Pay, CES Gallery in Los Angeles; The Fair Housing Project, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; A Good Run of Bad Luck, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY; and Gone the Sun, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France. Grants include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Artist Resource Trust, Jerome Foundation and the inaugural Young Masters Art Prize in London.

Ghost of a Dream’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Hyperallergic, BlouinArtinfo, ArtFCity, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, and World of Interiors. They have also been featured on Good Morning America, VICE, and the Southern Foodways Alliance in conjunction with 21C Museum.

Exhibitions

Link to Ghost of a Dream exhibition page

If this is paradise…, Ghost of a Dream

August 6, 2022 - October 10, 2022

News

Link to Ghost of a Dream’s I know a place where they perform miracles opening at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, January 2024 news page

Outside Exhibition

Ghost of a Dream’s I know a place where they perform miracles opening at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, January 2024

January 2024

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Press

Ghost of a Dream: I know of a place where they perform miracles at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington

Burnaway | March 2024

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Link to Innovative Artist Duo-Collective Ghost Of A Dream Shift Our Gaze To The Earth’s Problems Shrouded In An ‘Opulent’ Veil news page

Press

Innovative Artist Duo-Collective Ghost Of A Dream Shift Our Gaze To The Earth’s Problems Shrouded In An ‘Opulent’ Veil

Forbes | October 2022

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Link to Editors’ Picks: 10 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Andrea Breiling in the Hamptons to Artist-Designed Garbage Trucks in the Streets news page

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Editors’ Picks: 10 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Andrea Breiling in the Hamptons to Artist-Designed Garbage Trucks in the Streets

Artnet | August 11, 2022

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