Laura Lani DeAngelis

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Laura Lani DeAngelis

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About

My practice is rooted in performance and the body. Through photography, sculpture, painting and installation, my work responds to lived experience through gesture and repetition. For the past seven years, I have lived portably and experimentally in the coastal redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains. New and old growth redwood trees greet me at my doorstep, reminding me of their layered histories. The sandstone hillsides are embedded with time and memory, a material intrinsic to place. Living in the forest is a precarious act and I am a direct witness and participant to all that nature manifests: It is both peaceful and terrifying at once.


Deeply influenced by existential thought and psychology, I relate my practice to a meditation on being in the world. I source material from my immediate surroundings to better understand my relationship to time and place. My aim is to understand the nature of existence in its purest form. 

Laura DeAngelis is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who currently resides in Boulder Creek, California. She holds an MFA from Mills College and is a recipient of the Nancy Cook Fellowship and Jay DeFeo Prize.  Her work has been exhibited in Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland and the Bay Area.

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Laura Lani DeAngelis 

Boulder Creek, California

(760) 793-9905

lauradphoto@gmail.com


EDUCATION

2021 Master of Fine Arts, Mills College

2021 Jay DeFeo MFA Prize Recipient

2021 Nancy Cook Travel Fellowship Awardee

2021 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Nominee

2020 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture Nominee

2017 Artist in Residence, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva, Oklahoma

2012 Master of Art Studio, California State University of Sacramento

2011 Graduate Level Award of Artistic Achievement, Second Place, “Complexities of

Existence”, Annual Student Awards Show, California State University of Sacramento

2006 Bachelor of Arts in Art, University of Nevada


SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019 “Sad Cloud” The Bench Gallery, San Francisco, California

2018 "Collected in Woods County" Lille Aeske, Boulder Creek, California

2015 "To Herself" Shimo Gallery, Sacramento, California

2012 “The Residue of an Aimless Pursuit” California State University of Sacramento Union 

Gallery, Sacramento, California

2011 “hidden from itself” CSUS Else Gallery, Sacramento, California


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 "Introductions 2021" Root Division, San Francisco (upcoming!)

2021 "Crystal Ball" Mills College MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland California

2020 "Bay Area Current(ly)" PhotoAlliance online exhibition, http://www.photoalliance.org/2020-bay-area-currently

2018 "Cultural Compositions" Cosumnes River College, Sacramento California

2014 "Live Forever and See" Room and Makers, San Francisco California

2013 "100-50-1" NWBLK, San Francisco, California

2012 “6x6” Invitational, Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento California

“Confluence” Master of Arts Exhibition, Library Gallery California State University of   Sacramento, Sacramento California

“Untitled” E Street Gallery, Sacramento California

2011 “addendum” Group Show, California State University of Sacramento, Else Gallery, 

Sacramento, California

“Complexities of Existence” Annual Student Awards Show, California State University of

Sacramento Else Gallery, Sacramento, California

2006 “Digital Translations” La Biblioteca de Universidad Iberoamericano, Puebla, Mexico


TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021 Darkroom Photography Teaching Assistant and Photography Lab Technician under Professor Kija Lucas, Mills College, Oakland, California

2020 Darkroom Photography Teaching Assistant and Photography Lab Technician under Professor Jennifer Brandon, Mills College, Oakland, California

2019 Dressing Modern Workshop, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada

2019 Photography Workshop for Arts Educators, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada

2018 Ageless Art Instructor, Family Service Agency of the Central Coast, Santa Cruz, California

2017 Self-Portrait Workshop, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva, Oklahoma


PUBLICATIONS

2015 "The Meadow 2015 Literary Arts Journal " Issue 10, 

(http://www.tmcc.edu/meadow/downloads/flipbook/2015/index.html). Cover Art, August.

2013 “Sac State Art Department Newsletter,” volume 2, issue 1, 

(http://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obriene/Home%20page/ARTNEWS3_FALL2012.pdf). 

Pages 6,7, January.

2012 Under the Gum Tree, Issue 2 (http://underthe gumtree.com/issues/). Photo Essay, 

“hidden from itself”, January.


REVIEWS

2014 "Unusual Encounters" by Joey Golaw (https://medium.com/room-and-makers/unusual-encounters-43c8ccbd1611)




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