Ghost of a Dream is the collaborative project of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom founded in 2008. Ghost of a Dream's work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the MassArt Art Museum (Boston, MA), Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, NC), Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ), and at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center (Colorado Springs, CO) and in group exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum (Bentonville, AR), Courtauld Museum (London, UK), Minneapolis Institute of Art, Frist Center for Visual Arts (Nashville, TN), The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco), and The Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto, CA) among other venues. 

Ghost of a Dream has received support from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Artist Resource Trust, and the Jerome Foundation. They received the first annual Young Masters Art Prize in London and have participated in artist residencies in Berlin, Basel, Beijing, France, and at venues throughout the US, including Bemis Center, ISCP, Smack Mellon, Wassaic Project, the Joan Mitchell Foundation AIR in New Orleans, and Elsewhere Museum. They will attend the Rauschenberg Foundation AIR in 2026. Ghost of a Dream’s work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Hyperallergic, BlouinArtinfo, ArtFCity, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, and World of Interiors.