Laura Parnes

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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