Lauren E. Peters is a Wilmington, Delaware native who pursued her studies at New England’s Gordon College and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). She started creating self-portraits for a small exhibition in 2016 after an extended hiatus from painting. She came to creating self-portraits by way of a painting by Chantal Joffe in a magazine in 2015. After working in costuming for a local theater, she returned to painting and began turning the spotlight on herself as the subject. The first set of portraits she completed featured a few wigs and a generalized approach to masculine vs. feminine, introvert vs. extrovert, and other extremes in personality with a penchant for female archetypes. Her work has since evolved into a more in-depth analysis of The Feminine. Lauren utilizes wigs and costumes in the source photos for her work in order to assemble an identity and those images taken for the paintings speak to the performance of gender and appearance. Lauren eschews the constricting ideas of gender in which she  was raised in order to create her  own visual language, her own truth, while referencing how much our culture still relies on gender constructs.

In 2018, she was awarded the “Emerging Artist” fellowship by the Delaware Division of the Arts for her work with an associated exhibition at The Biggs Museum of American Art. Peters has since exhibited on a national level and is also active locally as a studio artist at The Delaware Contemporary. She continues to grow as an artist and expand the world in which the portraits exist. In 2020-2021 Peters curated and executed an exhibition at The Contemporary with 16 other artists creating their own interpretation of one of her early self-portraits and saw the public installation of her portrait of "Wilma," namesake of the Buccini/Pollin Group's bowling alley in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.