Laura Tanner

Assistant Professor,
MFA University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign 

Email: grahaml@simplykimberly.com

Laura Tanner’s creative works act as sites of inquiry into the revisionist histories that reinforce systems of inequity. Spanning drawing, installation and social practice, she works with historical institutions and local communities to collect documented and oral histories that shed light onto the extraordinary contradictions between the perceived and experienced narratives in America. Since receiving her MFA from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Tanner has exhibited nationally, including exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Art on Paper fair during Armory week in New York City. Her work can be viewed at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans or in the collection of the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. Laura Tanner is the Co-Producer and Co-Host of the podcast The Open Call. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Art History at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.