— Visual Artist · Chicago, IL
Lainey
Peltier
Lainey Peltier is an interdisciplinary artist devoted to prolonged study — exploring ecological entanglement, perception, and impermanence through iterative, process-based making.
Lainey Peltier is an interdisciplinary artist devoted to prolonged study — exploring ecological entanglement, perception, and impermanence through iterative, process-based making.
Guided by an ethics of slowness, care, and attentive looking, my work seeks to create spaces where natural phenomena—earth, light, water—are encountered as both familiar and estranged.
I approach image-making as a responsive, materially-sensitive practice, and I prioritize processes that emphasize trace, residue, and chance.
I engage in repetition as an act of devotion. Through focused and continued examination, my practice aims to honor a reciprocal flow of perception, one that illustrates how we are simultaneously touching and touched by our environment.
My practice explores how ecological and bodily presence unfolds as an archive of mutable, layered experiences that exist in the space between perception and memory, self and world.
Lainey Peltier is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL, whose practice centers on prolonged study. She employs process-based and iterative modes of creating to explore themes of interconnectedness, perception, and impermanence.
Working across painting, printmaking, and installation, Peltier develops bodies of work through extended engagement with specific sites and phenomena. Water, light, atmosphere, and ecological entanglement recur throughout the work as both subject and structural logic.
Peltier holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a dual BA and BFA in Art History and Studio Art, both with distinction, from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is held in collections at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Museum of Texas Tech University, Kent State University, St. Lawrence University, and others.
Open to exhibition inquiries, acquisitions, and conversations about the work.
