Sculptural ceramic installation by Miami-based artist Lauren Shapiro, featuring intricate, modular clay forms inspired by natural ecosystems and biological structures, exhibited at MSC Cruise Terminal in Miami part of ceramic art practice.

Collected Forms

MSC Cruise Terminal
(2025-present)

Gilded ceramic sculpture placed atop a reflective plexiglass pedestal by Miami artist Lauren Shapiro, integrating botanical forms and marine textures in coral-hued relief, part of her ongoing exploration of art, ecology, and design in South Florida.

Gilded Tropic

The Shelborne by Proper (2025)

People working on intricate sand art with circular patterns, using tools such as shovels and rakes to create Art Deco inspired architectural designs on a sandy beach.

Sand Relief

Miami Beach (2025)

A pink-purple ceramic sculpture with botanical motifs placed atop a bright green acrylic pedestal in front of an architectural mural mural.

Pastiche

Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
(2024-2025)

“Coral Portal,” a ceramic sculpture by Lauren Shapiro, features a projected 3D animation of restored Elkhorn coral from Carysfort Reef, highlighting marine conservation and underwater ecosystems.

Coral Portal

MAD Arts (2023)

Research mood board wall in Lauren Shapiro’s studio at The Kampong, featuring botanical sketches, coral textures, archival images, and process notes for environmentally focused ceramic sculptures inspired by South Florida’s tropical ecology.

studiolab

Kampong (2024)

Lauren Shapiro's light-based ceramic sculptures incorporating 3D coral scans, exhibited in Fragile Beauty at the Jewish Museum of Florida, highlighting endangered marine ecosystems during Miami Art Week 2022.

Fragile Beauty

Jewish Museum of Florida (2022)

Media installation of underwater 3D scan data by Lauren Shapiro, showcasing photogrammetry-based visuals to preserve fragile marine ecosystems.

Datasets

Art and Culture Center (2023)

Three Rivers ceramic wall installation by Lauren Shapiro featuring layered textures of tropical fruits, leaves, and coral forms, inspired by Lemon City’s agricultural history and South Florida’s subtropical ecology.

Three Rivers

Soho Pool House (2022-present)

“Site R16 Transect 1” ceramic sculpture by Lauren Shapiro, a gold-framed monolith with stacked clay tiles replicating extinct coral reef textures using 3D photogrammetry.

Site R16 Transect 1

Royal Palm South Beach (2021)

An image of monumental sculptural totems and arches clad in blue and off white shells, corals, and marine textures. The sculptures are contrasted against a burnt-orange wall in a gallery space.

Future Pacific

Bakehouse Arts Complex (2020-2021)

Site-specific ceramic wall sculpture at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden composed of modular tiles cast from native and exotic flora, created through public workshops to promote environmental stewardship and celebrate South Florida’s biodiversity.

Garden Portals

Fairchild Tropical Gardens (2021)

“A Subtropical Affair” by Lauren Shapiro, outdoor ceramic sculptures featuring white and light‑blue geometric modules with green glazed leaves, displayed in the Orchid House during Miami Art Week 2021 at Center for Subtropical Affairs.

A Subtropical Affair

Community-built ephemeral clay sculpture installed at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, created with public workshops using botanical textures.

Center for Subtropical Affairs (2020)

Temporary Terrains

Ceramic sculptures and site-specific installation from Lauren Shapiro’s “Fragile Terrains” solo exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil, exploring global climate systems, melting ice, and interdependent ecosystems.

Fairchild Tropical Gardens (2019)

Fragile Terrains

Bianca Boeckel Galeria with
Art Bastion Gallery (2018)

Unfired clay installation wrapping a historic cement column with impressions of South Florida foliage, created for the Downtown Historic Post Office during Miami Art Week.

Domus Hortus

Miami Downtown Historic Post Office (2017)

"Ping Pong" group exhibition in Basel featuring international artists from Miami, Los Angeles, Berlin, and Switzerland at Projektraum M54, including ceramic sculpture by Lauren Shapiro.

Ping Pong

M54 in Basel, Switzerland (2017)

An underwater image of a women scuba diving with a red tank. The woman holds a camera above a large cluster of coral and sea fans.

Blue Horizon

Public Art Sculpture Proposal