11 Facts About Laura Parnes

Laura Parnes's work is often episodic, references pop culture, female stereotypes, history and the anxiety of influence.

Laura Parnes was the co-director of Momenta Art with Eric Heist and helped relaunch the not-for-profit exhibition space in New York City; at first as a nomadic space and then as a permanent space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Laura Parnes continued to her involvement as a Board Chair until 2011.

Laura Parnes currently teaches in MFA departments at MICA, Parsons, and SVA.

Laura Parnes' latest work, County Down, is an episodic, digital film investigating a pandemic of psychosis in a gated community that coincides with an adolescent girl's creation of a designer drug.

Laura Parnes's work Hollywood Inferno is a two-channel installation that refers to our cultural obsession with adolescents.

Laura Parnes collaborated with Sue de Beer on Heidi 2, an unauthorized sequel to Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy's Heidi.

Laura Parnes' works have been exhibited widely in the United States and worldwide, including: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

Laura Parnes has had solo screenings at MoMA, NY; CATE 10-year Anniversary, presented by the School of Art Institute of Chicago and Video Data Bank, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago IL; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Vtape, Toronto and in a two-person screening at MoMA, NY.

Laura Parnes was presented by Participant Inc in a two-person exhibition at No Soul for Sale at X Initiative, NYC, NY.

Laura Parnes participated in the 1997 Whitney Biennial and is a 2013 Solomon R Guggenheim Memorial Fellow and Creative Capital Awardee.