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Vaughn Bell was born in Syracuse, New York. Her work encompasses installations and performances involving living plants, multi-media video installation works, and public interventions. She has exhibited work in venues across the United States including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago and Portland, OR, as well as the UK and Japan. Recent solo shows have included “Becoming a River” in Kamiyama, Japan, “New Pioneers” at Disjecta Art Space in Portland, OR, and “from Sea to Shining Sea” at SOIL Gallery in Seattle. She has also recently participated in group shows at Dam, Stuhltrager in Brooklyn, Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston, the Soap Factory in Minneapolis and the Cambridge Art Council Gallery in Cambridge, MA. Recent grants and awards include the King County 4Culture Special Projects Grant and the Site Specific Performance Network Grant for the “CUV (Cultivation Utility Vehicle)” series of public performances. She received full fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Millay Colony for the Arts, was Artist in Research at the Berwick Research Institute in Boston in 2004, and was selected as the 2007 international artist in residence for KAIR in Kamiyama, Japan.

Vaughn has taught or been a visiting artist at Massachusetts College of Art, Montserrat College of Art, Syracuse University, and Ursinus College, most recently teaching at Fairhaven College at Western Washington University. Vaughn received her MFA from the Studio for Inter-related Media at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and her undergraduate degree from Brown University. She currently is based in Seattle.