Laura Letinsky


Laura L. Letinsky is a Canadian contemporary photographer. Born in Winnipeg, Letinsky is best known for her still life photographs.

Early life and education

Letinsky holds a BFA from the University of Manitoba, and an MFA degree from Yale University, 1991. Letinsky has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Anonymous Was a Woman. She is a professor of visual arts at the University of Chicago.

Art career

Letinsky says that her work "is in part about the relationship between looking at something and other bodily experiences."
Letinsky's still life work alludes to human presence without including any actual figures. For example, in the Morning and Melancholia, and the I Did Not Remember I Had Forgotten series, Letinsky seems to document the aftermath of a sumptuous gathering or dinner party.
The Somewhere, Somewhere series explores similar themes of recently vacated domestic settings.

Solo exhibitions

Her work is included in the collection of the Getty Museum, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago.