Laura Sanders (b. 1966, Detroit, MI) is a painter who lives and works in Columbus, OH, and maintains a studio in Long Island City, NY. She received her BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, in 1988. Sanders has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums across the United States and abroad. In 2025, her work was the subject of a mid-career survey, Laura Sanders: Force of Nature, at The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH. Recent solo exhibitions include Her Habitat, Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH, 2024, and Shifting Baselines, Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH, 2021. In 2022, she both curated and showcased work in the group exhibition To Die For at Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH. Additionally, Sanders’ work was recently included in Beyond the Present: Collecting for the Future, The Christine Mack Collection, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY; Here’s Looking at You, Plato Gallery, New York, NY; Belonging: The Long Island City Studio Collective, Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH; Rewilding, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Playful Perspectives: Staff Reflections on Play, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; The Scenic Route, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; Shape of an Image, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong; and Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Midwest Edition, Issue No. 77, and as an Editor’s Pick in Midwest Edition, Issue No. 149. It is held in many public and private collections, including the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; the Scantland Family Collection, Columbus, OH; the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL; and the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. Sanders has received a number of grants from arts organizations, including the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Individual Artist Award in 2011 and the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Excellence Award in 2009, 2013, and 2019. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, and the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.