Laura Splan

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

STATEMENT My creative practice functions as experimental and investigative, narrative and performative, culturally situated and personal. I challenge delineations of Art, Design, and Craft to disrupt categories of knowledge production with interdisciplinary artworks and exhibitions. My projects and engagement examine cultural intersections of Science and Technology to reveal their shared inheritance and imagine their entangled future. BIO Laura Splan is Brooklyn-based artist and researcher working at the intersections of Science, Technology, and Culture. Her transdisciplinary practice reframes artifacts of the posthuman landscape to unravel entanglements of natural and built systems. Her internationally recognized artworks and exhibitions have been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, Musea Brugge (Bruges), Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pioneer Works (NYC), and The Nobel Prize Museum at Liljevalchs (Stockholm). Her work is represented in the collections of Thoma Art Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and has been commissioned by the CDC Museum in association with The Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC), the Vanderbilt Museum Planetarium (Centerport, NY), and Bruges Triennial. Her research has been supported by the Simons Foundation, NEW INC at the New Museum, Jerome Foundation, Knight Foundation, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation. As a speaker and educator, she has been a National...

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