Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Laura Larson

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Columbus, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003

Laura Larson has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at venues such as Art in General; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; SFCamerawork; Susanne Vielmetter/L.A. Projects; and Wexner Center for the Arts. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time Out New York, and she has published artist projects in Cabinet, Documents, and The Literary Review. Her first book, Hidden Mother (Saint Lucy Books, 2017), was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Prize. She is the recipient of grants from Ohio Arts Council and the New York Foundation of the Arts, and Fellowships from MacDowell, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Ucross Foundation. Since 2002, she’s presented four one-person exhibitions with Lennon, Weinberg Gallery in New York. Larson teaches photography in the School of Art + Design at Ohio University in Athens, OH.

Studios

Firth

Laura Larson worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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