Laura Swanson (1978, Minneapolis, MN) received her MFA in Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design and BFA in Design & Technology from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited within the United States at the RISD Museum of Art, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Camera Club of New York, and internationally at Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video in Berlin, Germany, the Media Arts Gallery in Warsaw, Poland, and in South Korea at the KyungHee University Museum of Art in Seoul and Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art in Jeju. Her awards include a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and the John Renna Art Scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts.