Laurel Nakadate is a photographer, video artist and filmmaker. She was born in Austin, TX in 1975 and raised in Ames, IA. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and an MFA from Yale University. Her work has been exhibited at P.S.1/MoMA, The Yerba Buena, The Getty Museum, and The Reina Sofia. In 2009, her first feature film, Stay The Same Never Change premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be featured in "New Directors/New Films" at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center.
Nakadate is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York, where her most recent show of photographs and videos, "Fever Dreams at the Crystal Motel" was on view from May to July 2009. Nakadate is currently completing her second feature film, The Wolf Knife.
Lecture:
When: 12:30 pm
Where: SMFA, Room B311
Film Screening: Stay The Same Never Change
When: 6:30 pm
Where: MFA, Riley Seminar Room
Credit: Laurel Nakadate, Exorcism in January, 2009. C-print from video still. Courtesy of the artist.
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