Lanecia Rouse

Lanecia A. Rouse is a versatile artist who divides her time between Richmond, VA and Houston, TX. Her diverse portfolio spans abstract painting, photography, teaching, writing, speaking, and curatorial projects for local non-profit organizations.

Lanecia recently concluded a month-long residency in Charleston, SC with the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, and has also been an Artists on Site: Series 3 Artist-in-Resident at the Asia Society HTX in 2022, and the 2020-2021 Artist-in-Resident for the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University. She holds the position of Artist-in-Resident partner at Holy Family HTX Episcopal Church in Houston, TX where she leads the Curation Team for the Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery.  She previously served as the Director for Justice and the Arts with projectCURATE, a Houston-based non-profit.

Lanecia's work is currently featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage. It was at the First Art Museum in Nashville, TN,  September 15, 2023 to December 31, 2023.  It opens at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in February 2024 and then will travel to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

A graduate of Duke University Divinity School and Wofford College, she can be found on social media @LARArtStudio (IG, Facebook + Twitter).