Lauren Higgins is a twenty-four year old artist from the San Francisco Bay Area and currently based in San Diego, CA. Captivated by art from a young age, she grew up playing with her mom’s cameras to make home videos while also spending most of her childhood outside in the California sun with her two younger brothers.
Higgins graduated with an Honors Art Photo/Media degree at the University of Washington to fulfill her creative ambitions. She has been able to craft both abstract and narrative storytelling techniques to explore people and the aspects of personality, family, space, connection, and culture that make humans who they are. She is most passionate about art’s ability to make change, which she has witnessed first-hand.
By completing two minors in Environmental Studies and Anthropology as adjunct educational pursuits to her Art degree, she has been able to successfully soak up aspects of culture, society, and our natural environment, in which she sought to learn and translate through the language of video and photography. During her time at the University of Washington, she co-created and edited The Basement (thebasement.cargo.site), an online art publication for various disciplines of Art students, with peer and collaborator Sebastian Rojas-Rincon. As well as joining forces with fellow Honors students to create an ever-evolving art collective: "Boo-Hoo" (boohoocollective.cargo.site) and publish a senior catalog. Higgins was a cinematographer on the award-winning short documentary film “Taking Flight” shot on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala in 2023.
She currently works as a freelance photographer, filmmaker, and social media marketing coordinator in San Diego. Through her continued work in both the art and outdoor spheres, Lauren seeks to translate messages globally and give voice to stories that do not traditionally get the spotlight, in hopes of exposing commonality in human beings. She appreciates art as a field for both self-exploration and worldly interaction, asking her audience to engage in reflection and creating through the muddled grounds of art and objective storytelling. This approach to spark, to spark personal insight or connection to the world and others, is her approach to art.