Lanecia A. Rouse (born 1978 in Atlanta, GA) is a versatile artist who divides her time between Houston, TX, and Richmond, VA. Her diverse portfolio spans collage, abstract painting, photography, teaching, writing, speaking, and curatorial projects for local non-profit organizations.

Recently concluding a month-long residency in Charleston, SC with the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, Lanecia has also been an Artists on Site: Series 3 Artist-in-Resident at the Asia Society HTX in 2022, and the 2020-2021 Artist-in-Resident for the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University. She holds the position of Visual Arts Editor for EcoTheo Review and of Artist-in-Resident partner at Holy Family HTX Episcopal Church in Houston, TX where she leads the Curation Team for the Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery. 

Her exhibitions include venues such as San Jacinto College Central Gallery, Pasadena, TX (2024); The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX (2023); The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC (2021, 2022, + 2023); Reynolds Contemporary Gallery, Richmond, VA (2022 + 2023); Hogan Brown Gallery, Houston, TX (2023); Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX (2022 + 2023); Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2022); Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX (2022); Asia Society TX Center, Houston, TX (2022); Art is Bond. Gallery, Houston, TX (2022); Urban Zin Gallery, New York City, NY (2021 + 2022); Duke University Chapel (2022); Collect it for the Culture, Houston, TX; Houston First Corporation, Houston, TX (2021); Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2020); Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (2020); Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; Forth and Nomad Gallery, Houston, TX (2019); American Church in Paris, Paris, France where she did a 1-month residency (2018); and Fourth Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2017 + 2021).

Lanecia's work is currently featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage at the First Museum in Nashville, TN, September-December of 2023. It will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston February 19-May 12, 2024, and then to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

Lanecia is a graduate of Duke University Divinity School and Wofford College. Her studio is located at High Dawn Studio in Richmond, Va.