Laurel Sigfúsdóttir Jóhannesson

Laurel Jóhannesson studied Printmaking and Computational Media Design at the University of Calgary and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, and the Royal College of Art in London, UK. An invited artist at over fifteen international residencies, she has twice been a visiting artist and scholar at the American Academy in Rome, has had the rare opportunity to research at the Vatican Library, and in 2017, was an invited artist in residence at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy. Laurel’s print, photographic, interactive, and moving image artworks and her experimental films have been exhibited internationally in over seventeen solo exhibitions and over one hundred and twenty-five group exhibitions. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Government of Canada, Palazzo Monti, Glenbow Museum, Royal College of Art, and Alberta Foundation for the Arts, as well as private collections in Canada, the United States, Italy, Greece, Iceland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.