BFA in Painting at PNCA; MFA in Painting & Printmaking at Yale University
Laura Camila Medina (1995) is an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia. Her practice is deeply inspired by the kisses between mountains and sky of her birthplace intertwined with the thematic fantasy-scape and migrant microcosms of Orlando, FL. Her work has been exhibited at Yossi Milo, David Castillo Gallery, Arts Fort Worth, Fuller Rosen Gallery, the Portland Art Museum, Nationale, and with the Nat Turner Project. She was awarded the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, the H. Lee Hirsche Memorial Prize, Dean’s Travel Grant, and CCAM Fellowship from Yale University, Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, New Media Fellowship from Open Signal, and various artist residencies including: the Living School of Art, ACRE, Signal Fire, and Centrum. She is represented by Nationale in Portland, OR. Medina earned her BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University.
