OHIO professor of Photography Laura Larson receives the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s 2019 Visual Arts Fellowship

Ohio University Area Chair and Professor of Photography Laura Larson received the Greater Columbus Arts Council 2019 Visual Arts Fellowship. As a fellow, she’s been awarded $5,000 and her work will be included in a fellow’s exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art in 2020.

“It's an honor to receive the Greater Columbus Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship and I'm delighted to have the opportunity to show my work at the Columbus Museum of Art in 2020,” Larson said. “I will continue working on two on-going projects: City of Incurable Women and All the Women I Know and plan to share these works in some capacity in the exhibition. I'm thrilled to bring my work to new audiences in Columbus and to spread the good word about Ohio University's Photography and Integrated Media Program in the School of Art + Design and its long and rich history.”

Larson was one of five chosen out of 86 applicants to receive this fellowship. Her work investigates historical subjects and the process of remembrance to consider photography’s unique address of the subject of memory.

She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including Art in General; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Lennon, Weinberg Gallery; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; SFCamerawork; Susanne Vielmetter/L.A. Projects; and Wexner Center for the Arts. She is the recipient of grants from Art Matters, Inc., the Ohio Arts Council and the New York Foundation of the Arts. Her first book, Hidden Mother (2017), was shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo First Photobook Prize.