On this episode of The Creative Process, Dave Hopper speaks with artist Laura Swanson.

Laura Swanson is an artist examining the behavior of looking at physical difference, working across various media including drawing, installation, photography, and sculpture. Born in Minneapolis, she received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions include “Resistance”, presented at the Laurie M. Tisch Gallery in New York in 2016. Her work will be featured on the cover and within “Anti-Portraiture: Challenging the Limits of the Portrait”, published by I.B. Tauris in October 2017. An upcoming solo exhibition of new and recent work will be hosted by the Attenborough Arts Centre in the United Kingdom, opening September 2017. Her awards include grants and scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship program, and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation. She lives and works in New York, NY.