BIOGRAPHY:
› print biographyLaura Letinsky is a world renowned fine artist and the Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Amy Koblenzer in Gourmet Magazine’s recently published ‘portfolio’ of Laura’s work states, “With their spare groupings, lit in what Letinsky calls ‘acid pastels’, her photos make us ask, Whatever happened here? Something disorderly and messy and intriguing, something deliciously tilted.”
Letinsky’s choice of objects is anything but personal. Indeed, the body of work, as a whole represents a formal exploration into the construction of sentiment. Her impeccable production values, however, bring this body of work within the purview of commercial photography. The photographs are formally stunning, deriving their intelligence from a sensitivity for moments.
Exhibitions
| 2009 | TBA, Hales Gallery, London |
| 2009 | TBA, Antwerp Museum of Photography |
| 2008 | Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp |
| 2007 | Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY |
| 2006 | Michael Sturm Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany Hardly More Than Ever, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla CA Somewhere, Somewhere, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ONT |
| 2005 | Now Again, Gallerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium Somewhere, Somewhere, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2004 | Hardly More Than Ever, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ONT; Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA Aftermath: Still-life photographs by Laura Letinsky, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 2003 | I did not remember I had forgotten, Shine Gallery, London, England; Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York; Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL Morning, and Melancholia, Iowa University Gallery, Iowa |
| 2002 | Morning, and Melancholia, Edwynn Houk Gallery, NY Venus Inferred-Self Portraits, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto Morning, and Melancholia, Copia: American Academy of Food and Wine, Napa Valley, CA |
| 2001 | Laura Letinsky, Vox Gallery, Montréal, QUE |
| 2000 | Morning, and Melancholia, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago, IL |
Selected Awards and Honors
| 2003 | Richard Driehaus Foundation Award, Chicago, IL |
| 2002 | Illinois Arts Council Grant |
| 2001 | Anonymous Was A Woman, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Guggenheim Fellowship Award – Photography |
Selected Publications and Articles
| 2006 | Border Crossings, Winnipeg, Canada Stilled, Iris Publications, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Gourmet Magazine, Feature, August |
| 2005 | Now Again, Gallerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium (DAP distributor) Art and Photography, Susan Bright editor, Thames and Hudson, London Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography, UIMA and The Neuberge Museum of Art |
| 2004 | Hardly More Than Ever, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images, Terry Barrett, McGraw-Hill Higher Education Chicago Photographs: From the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, LaSalle Bank Charlotte Cotton, Contemporary Art Photography, London: Thames and Hudson |
| 2003 | Jamie Horowitz and Pauletter Singley, Ed.s, Eating Architecture, Cambridge MA: MIT Press Feminine Persuasions, Bloomington, Indiana: Phaidon Press |
| 2002 | Blink: 100 Contemporary Photographs, London: Phaidon Press |
| 2000 | Lauren Berlant, essay and interview in Venus Inferred, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (Monograph) Lauren Berland, Ed., Intimacy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press |
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