Laura
Magnusson

Laura Magnusson (1985) is a queer Canadian artist and filmmaker, with a focus on video, sculpture, performance, and underwater research-creation. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she is currently based in Montreal, Quebec, pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University. Her current work investigates art as a site for testimony and witnessing, and as a means to consider the felt experiences of others, human and more than human.

Magnusson has exhibited and screened work in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Iceland, Finland, the United Kingdom, Russia, and South Korea, with upcoming events in Germany, Spain, and India. In Canada, she has received funding from all levels of government and has a permanent public sculpture on display at the University of Manitoba. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan (2019), and a BFA from The School of Art at the University of Manitoba (2010). In October 2021, she is scheduled to participate in The Arctic Circle Art & Science Expedition.