LAURA PIASTA
Curriculum Vitae
b.1981, Burnaby, Canada.
Lives and works in Växjö Sweden
Education
2010-2012 Master of Fine Arts, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Sweden
2002-2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Chime Shift, Towards Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Serpentine Rhythm, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria BC
2016 A Definite Volume but No Fixed State, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, BC
2015 Sounding the Ultraviolet, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2014 Bog Breath, Sunset Terrace, Vancouver, BC
2012 Specific Objects Becoming Communicating Vessels, Gallery 60, Umeå, Sweden
2011 The Smallest of Victories, LES Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Contra-Band, TRAPP Projects, Vancouver, BC Canada
2023 Förfalskad Morgon, Alta, Malmö, Sweden
Vår Salon, Hofs Lifs, Växjö, Sweden
Summer Exhibition, Italienska Palatset, Växjö Sweden
2021 Together Again, BAF, Vancouver, BC
Works on Paper, TRAPP Projects, Vancouver, BC
2018 Leaning out of Windows, ECUAD, Vancouver, BC
2017 A Poem About Life II, Duplex Project Space, Vancouver, BC
Still Burning, Border Patrol, Portland, Maine
Peer Pressure, PLAZA projects, Richmond, BC
2016 Inaugural Exhibition, Romeo, New York, NY
Like a Rolling Stone: An Exhibition about Rock and Rock, Charles H. Scott Gallery,
Vancouver, BC
2015 Tower Beach Blast, Hardscrabble, Vancouver, BC
Summer Symposium, Sikås, Art Centre, Sikås, Sweden
2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Musée de beaux-arts de Montréal
CASV Emerging Artist Prize, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
A Boot and A Line, Malmö Show Room, Malmö Sweden
Sunday Painter’s Salon, Field Contemporary, Vancouver BC
2013 Love, The Willows, New York, NY
2012 A Poem About Life, East Van Studios, Vancouver, Canada
Twenty Twelve (As We Know It) Part Two, Konsthall C Pannrummet, Stockholm, Sweden
Twenty Twelve (As We Know It), BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden
2011 Studies in Decay, The Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Exhibition No.7, The Museum of Longing and Failure, Copenhagen
From Anna Blume, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
2010 Walk in Here You Are: an exhibition in 6 parts, City of Vancouver Public Art
Journey into WHATEVER, NBCCD Gallery, New Brunswick
The Invisible College, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Forgotten Bar Project, Forgotten Bar, Berlin, Germany
RBC Painting Competition, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Feather Throat, The Grimm Museum, Berlin, Germany
Art Fairs
2013 Super Market Art Fair, The Or Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Awards and Scholarships
2023 Konstnarsnamnden Arbetsstipendier
Margareta (Meg) Göthe-Dalgrens Stiftelse Stipendiet
2022 Växjö Kommuns Arbetsstipenier
2020 BC Art Council Project Grant
Canada Council for the Arts Research + Production Grant
2019 Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant
Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant for Exhibition
2016 Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant
2014 City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist
Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant
2012 Konstnärliga Utvecklingsproject KU Research Grant Umeå University
Baltic Stipendium for Research and Travel
Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
Residencies
2016 Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2015 Sikås Art Center, Artist in Residency, Sikås, Sweden
2012 FAIR, Factory of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 The Banff Centre, Thematic Residency, Banff, Canada
2009 Cove Park, Drawing Master-class, Argyll and Butte, Scotland
Selected Music/Sound Performance
2011 Ljud/LYD Sound Art Festival, Umeå, Sweden
Glass Symphony, in accompanying Holly Ward’s exhibition at ArtSpeak, Vancouver
2010 TALA Band, Montags Bar, Temporary Kunstahalle, Berlin Germany
2008 The Book of Lists, Fuse, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Book of Lists, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle