Laura Letinsky
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Laura Letinsky
Professor in the Committee on Visual Arts

Areas of Expertise:

  • Photography
  • Art
  • Humanities
Media Contact:
Josh Schonwald
(773) 702-6421
jschonwa@uchicago.edu

Background:


Laura Letinsky has exhibited her color photographs in numerous venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Casino Luxembourg; The Nederlands Foto Institute; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Her series of still-life photographs, Morning, and Melancholia, has been shown at Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York City, Copia, Napa Valley, and Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto. More recent and upcoming exhibitions include Time Was Away at the Art Institute of Chicago, I did not remember I had forgotten at the Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, and Hardly More Than Ever at the University of Chicago's Renaissance Society and the Shine Gallery in London. Her work is collected by LaSalle Bank Photography Collection; Yale University Art Gallery; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; and the San Francisco Museum of Art. Letinsky received her B.F.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1986 and her M.F.A. from Yale University 1991.

News clippings:

Press releases:

Renaissance Society presents Laura Letinsky
January 29, 2004

Chronicle articles:
Hardly More Than Ever: Letinsky interprets home as the uneasy space it can be
March 4, 2004

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