Lauren Frances Evans currently lives and works in Birmingham, AL where she is Assistant Professor of Art and Gallery Director at Samford University. She is originally from Atlanta, GA, completed her undergraduate studies at the College of Charleston and received her MFA from the University of Maryland. She has served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa in the School of Art & Art History as well as a Visiting Professor at Grinnell College. Evans has participated in residencies at Franconia Sculpture Park, Elsewhere Living Museum, the Vermont Studio Center, and The Stay Home Gallery. She was awarded the International Sculpture Center's 2014 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and was a recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the Iowa Arts Council.

Evans’ work addresses the body as a site of irresistible paradox. Prompted by urges and the allure of origins, her work is primarily sculptural, ranging from meticulously layered collage to large mixed media structures and installations. In her research, she investigates the meaning of the creative act, matters of origin, symbolic centers, and the significance of the maternal experience. Evans' work and writing has been featured in several publications including The Other Journal, PromptPress, and CIVA's Seen Journal. in 2019, she presented a paper at the CAA conference entitled "How We Are Fed: Artist Mothers and the Online Community," and has since organized sessions titled "The Artist as Parent as Academic" and “All in the Family: Raising Kids Together, as Artists, in Academia” for the SECAC conference.

Evans is the founder and facilitator of the Artist/Parent/Academic Network and she was featured on ep. 22 of the Artist/Mother Podcast. Most importantly, she is mom Agnes Prairie and Edith Moon.