Laura Piasta

Laura Piasta is an artist who lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Recent solo exhibitions include Chime Shift at Towards Gallery in Toronto (2019); Serpentine Rhythm at Deluge Contemporary Art in Victoria (2018); Sounding the Ultraviolet at Access Gallery in Vancouver (2015); Bog Breath at Sunset Terrace; and Specific Objects Becoming Communicating Vessels at Gallery 60 in Umeå, Sweden (2012). Selected group exhibitions include Leaning out of Windows at Emily Carr University of art + Design (2018); A Poem About Life II at Duplex Project Space in Vancouver (2017); Still Burning at Border Patrol in Portland, Maine (2017); Inaugural Exhibition at Romeo in New York, NY (2016); Like a Rolling Stone: An Exhibition about Rock and Rock at Charles H. Scott Gallery in Vancouver (2016); and RBC Canadian Painting Competition at the Musée de beaux-arts de Montréal (2015). Piasta holds an MFA from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden (2012) and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2006). In 2016, Piasta was an artist-in-residence at BAF and presented two new bodies of work titled A Definite Volume But No Fixed State – one of abstract ink prints on paper that captured a material process of Piasta’s work, and the other of hydro-stone plaster sculptures.