Biography
Laura González-Possamai was born in New York City in 1989 to parents who left their homeland of Uruguay in search of a better life. Using the camera as a tool, González-Possamai focuses on capturing certain moments in her ever-changing environment as a way to record its existence in time and make it permanent within the timeline of our history.
In 2017, González-Possamai moved to Miami to pursue a BFA at the University of Florida's New World School of the Arts in Downtown Miami.
Artist Statement
González-Possamai’s artistic practice is an exploration of migration and displacement, recalling memories as a form of recollection, confrontation, and reclamation of our cultural identities. Through the use of layering or flawed, out-of-focus photographs, the work serves as an investigation of the incoherent fragments of memory. In processing these memories, there is a sense of a forced adaptation in which our capacity to remember and forget helps us to respond and adjust to a variety of contexts and conditions.
Artist CV
Education
2022 - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Photography, Minor in Art History, University of Florida, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
2019 - Associate Degree in Fine Arts, Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL
Awards
2018 - Best in Photography, Emerging Artists: Miami-Dade College Student Exhibition, Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL
Residencies
2022 - Bakehouse Art Complex Summer Open Residency Program, Miami, FL
2022 - School of Visual Arts Artist Residency Program, New York, NY
2021 - Columbia University Arts in the Summer, New York, NY
Exhibitions
2022 - Open Studios, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
2022 - SVA’s Artist Residency Programs Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2022 - Axiom - New World School of the Arts 2022 BFA Show, MDC Freedom Tower, Miami, FL
2021 - Wonder in the Wilderness, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL
2021 - Art al Fresco, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
2020 - Rising Stars Exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
2019 - Emerging Artists Miami-Dade College Student Exhibition, Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL
2018 - Women's History Month Student Photography Display, MDC Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL
2018 - Emerging Artists Miami-Dade College Student Exhibition, Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL
Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g_KL_4vb7I&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZSexjzGJHY