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Ghost of a Dream
The collabora1ve team of
Lauren Was and
Adam Eckstrom

Ghost of a Dream Biography
Ghost of a Dream is the collabora1ve duo of Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was. They began their
collabora1on in 2007 shortly aDer mee1ng at Rhode Island School of Design where the both received
MFAs (2004 Lauren in Sculpture, 2005 Adam in pain1ng). Among their most recent exhibi1ons is “State
of the Art”, a traveling museum exhibi1on that has shown at Crystal Bridges Museum, The Telfair
Museum, Minneapolis Ins1tute of Art, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum in Memphis, Frist
Center for Visual Arts in Nashville and The Mint in CharloVe. Ghost of a Dream’s recent solo exhibi1ons
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 in Paris, France. They are represented by Galerie Paris Beijing (including solo exhibi1ons in Paris,
2015; Brussels, 2013, and Beijing, 2010) and by Galleri Christo?er Egelund in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ghost of a Dream has received the support of the Pollock-Krasner Founda1on, New York
Founda1on for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Founda1on, the Ar1st Resource Trust and Jerome Founda1on
and received the ?rst annual Young Masters Art Prize in London, 2009. They have received ar1st
residencies in Berlin, Basel, Beijing, France, and at venues throughout the United States including The
Bemis Center, ISCP, Smack Mellon, Wassaic Project, and the Joan Mitchell Founda1on AIR in New
Orleans. They co-founded a residency program in 2015 at Garda Lake in Italy 1tled ArtGarda. Their work
has been featured in publica1ons such as The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Hyperallergic,
BlouinArInfo, ArtFCity, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, World of Interiors. They have also been
featured on Good Morning America and VICE has made a documentary about their work on the VICE
Art Talks series.

Price of Happiness 2010
discarded loVery 1ckets, and aDer world money on panel with UV coa1ng
170" x 347" x 3"

End of the Spectrum 2012
discarded loVery 1ckets on 4 panels
92" x 122"

The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me 2014
discarded exhibi1on postcards with UV coat on panel
60” x 92”

Weaving Together the Images and
Maps from the Special Collec1ons

Looking Up From the Third Floor.

Zooming in Further to See How We
Connect Similar Images

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