Over two and a half decades, Laura Letinsky has engaged extensively with still life photography to reframe neglected fragments of daily life in elegant ways.
Presenting images from Hardly More Than Ever (1997 – 2004) and Ill Form and Void Full (2013), the visual narratives composed by the Canadian artist and educator question the construction of images and spaces with subtle hints of human presence.
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About the Artist
Laura Letinsky (b.1962, Canada), BFA from the University of Manitoba, 1986, and MFA from Yale University’s School of Art, 1991, is now a Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago.
Exhibitions include the Mumbai Photography Festival, Mumbai, India; MIT, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Photographers Gallery, London; The Denver Art Museum, CO; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago.
Awards include the Canada Council International Residency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, The Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Publications include Ill Form and Void Full, Radius Press, 2014, Feast, Smart Museum of Art, UC Press, 2013, After All, Damiani, 2010, Hardly More Than Ever, Renaissance Society, 2004, Blink, Phaidon Press, 2002, and Venus Inferred, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC.