Digital + Media Lecture Series Laura Swanson Monday September 29, 7pm CIT Building, Room 200 Laura Swanson is an artist examining representation of the body on display, working across various media including drawing, installation, photography, sculpture, and video. Pulling from multiple sources - personal experience, critical theory, art history, advertising, popular culture, sociology - her visual language is simultaneously playful and serious, simple and intricate, inviting and disruptive. Her work centers around a critical exploration of the behavior of looking at difference: how physical difference is visually depicted and objectified in culture, the consequent behaviors that cause discrimination in everyday life, and the psychological effects of being socially marginalized. Born in Minneapolis, Swanson received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. Her work has been exhibited within the United States at the RISD Museum of Art, Camera Club of New York, and San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, and internationally at Arsenal Institute for Film and Video in Berlin, Germany, Media Arts Gallery in Warsaw, Poland, and in South Korea at the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art. She has an upcoming exhibition at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in April 2015. Swanson was a National Endowment for the Arts John Renna Scholar in 2008-2010, Jacob K. Javits Fellow in 2010-2011, and received a Wynn Newhouse Award from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation in 2013. Her work is held in collection at the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art in Jeju, South Korea. She lives and works in New York, NY. For more information: lauraswanson
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