Laura Parnes received
a BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Elkins
Park, Pennsylvania. Parnes is a multi-media installation artist and
maker of 10 experimental videos. Parnes has screened and exhibited
her work widely in the US and internationally, including Light
Industry, Brooklyn; Turin GLBT Film Festival, Turin; Schroeder
Romero, NY; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland; Sara Meltzer
Gallery, NY; Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; Cinematexas,
Austin; Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley Art Museum; John Connelly
Presents, NY; Vtape, Toronto; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius,
Lithuania; Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Spain; the
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New
Zealand; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, NY;
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Galizia, Spain; Miami Museum of
Contemporary Art, Miami; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art,
Miami; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; and on PBS and Spanish Television.
Her work has been featured in solo shows at Alma Enterprises,
London; Locust Projects, Miami; Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam; Los
Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA; Participant Inc, NY; Deitch
Projects, NY; and in a two-person screening at The Museum of Modern
Art, NY. Parnes has been awarded residencies at the Sally and Don
Lucas Artists Programs at the Montalvo Arts Center, the Wexner
Center, Cuts and Burns Residency at The Outpost, and Harvestworks,
among others. Parnes received a Finishing Funds grant from the
Experimental Television Center and an individual artist grant from
NYSCA. Blood and Guts in High School was named as one of the
Village Voice's top ten experimental film/video works of 2005 by Ed
Halter. Parnes has taught at New York University, The New School,
and Bennington College. Pares is the co-director of Momenta Art in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Laura
Parnes lives and works in New York.
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