Scooter LaForge

Scooter LaForge (born 1971) is an American artist based in New York's East Village. He is a painter and sculptor, and has a line of clothing for Patricia Field and has collaborated with other fashion designers. LaForge's work is "inspired by the old masters, cute fluffy animals, and sometimes iconic cartoons," and Popeye

Early life LaForge was born Scooter James LaForge in 1971 in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Work LaForge earned a BFA from the University of Arizona in 1993, attending the Cooper Union School of Art under a fellowship. His work is held in the collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and collector Beth Rudin DeWoody.

LaForge has a line of hand-painted clothing sold through stylist Patricia Field. He has twice collaborated with Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck.

His clothing has been worn by Susanne Bartsch, Sandra Bernhard, Beyoncé, Boy George, Debbie Harry, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Iggy Pop, Rihanna, and Lil Wayne.

Exhibitions

Solo 2002 – Suicidal Tendencies, Build, San Francisco 2003 – No Sleep till Brooklyn, Landing, Brooklyn 2004 – Magic, San Angel Folk Art Gallery, San Antonio 2005 – Combines, 12 Little West 12th Street Gallery, New York 2007 – Land of Enchantment, Kanvas Gallery, New York 2009 Destroy All Monsters, Live Fast, New York Nature's Clown, Envoy Enterprises, New York New York Monster, Envoy Enterprises, New York New Paintings, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa 2012 – Super Powers and Special Abilities, Munch Gallery, New York 2013 – Summer Love, Deluca Gallery, Provincetown 2015 Travels with Johnny, Munch Gallery, New York New Paintings, Galerie MX, Montreal How to Create a Monsterpiece, Howl! Happening, New York 2016 – Everything's Going to Be OK, Theodore Art, Brooklyn 2017 – The Odyssey, Jealous Gallery, London 2019 Creation of the Animals, Empirical Nonsense, New York Homo Eruptus, Howl! Happening, New York 2024 – Scooter LaForge: Enchanted Anarchies and Other Realities, Lesley Art + Design, Cambridge 2025 – LaForge, Sweetie! The Fashion Universe of Scooter LaForge, Lesley Art + Design, Cambridge

Group 2000 – Confess, Southern Exposure, San Francisco 2001 – Frenzy, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco 2004 – Reactions, Exit Art, New York 2005 4 x 4, Gallery Artopia, Albuquerque Wooster Projects, New York 2006 Portraits for Marc Jacobs windows, New York Cooper Union Group Show, New York Scope Hampton, Stephanie Theodore, New York 2007 Remember Jerome, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco The Comic Uncanny, Shaheen Modern & Contemporary, Cleveland 2009 The Thin Veil, Antebellum Gallery, Los Angeles Out of Order, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York 2010 The Salacious Salon Pool Art Fair, Gershwin Hotel, New York Gasoline Rainbow, CS13, Cincinnati I See Myself in You, Bronx Art Space, Bronx Lingering Whispers, Crypt Gallery at St. Pancras Church, London Power to the People, Feature, Inc., New York Tom of Finland and Then Some, Feature, Inc., New York The London Biennale, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York 2011 Wolfpack!, Splatterpool Artspace, Brooklyn Queer from Zero to a Hundred, theater for the New City Gallery, New York B-B-B-Bad, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York Tattoo You, Munch Gallery, New York Dirty Show, City Center Motel, Los Angeles I Am Not Monogamous, I Heart Poetry/Feature, Inc., New York 2012 Flesh Garden, YESSR4, Buenos Aires Fountain Art Fair, Munch Gallery, New York Scooter LaForge/Christopher Moss, Theodore Art, Brooklyn Wolfpack: Manhattan to Manchester, Cube Gallery, Manchester 2013 – Downtown New York, Broome Street Gallery, New York 2014 Boys Keep Swinging, Summerhall, Edinburgh Bibbidi-Bibbidi-Boo, Here Arts Center, New York Flesh Garden, La Petite Mort Gallery, Amsterdam Mad Maus, Gallery Hotel Particulier, New York Watermill Center Benefit Auction, Watermill Queer Biennial, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles NEWD Art Fair, Bushwick, Bushwick SummerShow2014, Munch Gallery, New York 2015 Interface, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York Powerful Babies, Spritmuseum, Stockholm Drawings, Theodore Art, Brooklyn 2019 ICYMI, Theodore Art, Brooklyn Stonewall 50/50, 1969 Gallery, New York Pride, Postmasters Gallery, New York 2020 – Dogs and Bones, Theodore Art, Brooklyn