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LAUREL NAKADATE


Education


2001    MFA, Yale University, School of Art, Photography, New Haven, CT
1998    BFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, Medford and Boston, MA


Teaching


2020 - 2021  Lecturer, SMFA at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2019 - 2021  Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2013 - 2021  Adjunct Professor, MFA Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2007 - 2020  Visiting Critic, Photography Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2017 - 2018  Visiting Faculty, Photography Department, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2013 - 2016  Critic, MFA in Studio Art Department, New York University, New York, NY
2014 - 2015  Visiting Critic, Department of Photography and Film, Virginia Commonwealth University
2003 - 2013  Lecturer, BFA Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2000 - 2001  Teaching Assistant to Catherine Opie, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT




Curatorial Projects


2020    ThesisShows2020.com, listing site for 2020 MFA, BFA and BA thesis shows across America and Canada
2020     LABOR: Motherhood and Art in 2020, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
2018     MOTHER, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY




Public Collections


21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
University Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Zabludowicz Art Trust, London, UK



One-Person Exhibitions


2021     Title Forthcoming, George Mason University Gallery of Art, Fairfax, VA
             Title Forthcoming, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA    
2020     Week 9, Galerie Tanja Wagner virtual show, Berlin, Germany
2018     The Kingdom, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
             The Kingdom, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
2015    Strangers and Relations, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2014    Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations, The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
            Strangers and Relations, University Art Gallery, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2013    Strangers and Relations, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
2012    Laurel Nakadate: Photographs, Videos & Performances, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center,
             Atlanta, GA
             Laurel Nakadate: Polaroids from ‘Stay the Same Never Change,’ Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2011    Laurel Nakadate: Say You Love Me, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
            Laurel Nakadate, The Zabludowicz Collection, London
            Laurel Nakadate, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
            Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely, MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, NY
            365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
2010    Some Recent Fever Dream, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia
2009    Fever Dreams at the Crystal Motel, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
2008    Laurel Nakadate, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
             Stay the Same Never Change, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
2007    Laurel Nakadate, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia
2006    A Message to Pretty, Danziger Projects, New York, NY
            Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind, Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
2005    Love Hotel and Other Stories, Danziger Projects, New York, NY
2004    Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
2002    We Are All Made of Stars, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY




Monographs


2015    Strangers and Relations, Des Moines Art Center
2011     365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, Zabludowicz Collection and Hatje Cantz




Feature Films


WIP        Old Hercules Road, TRT, TBT
2010      The Wolf Knife, 88 minutes
2009       Stay the Same Never Change, 93 minutes




Essays

“Ralph Eugene Meatyard,” University of Kentucky Art Gallery, 2018
“Mary Gaitskill,” Interview magazine, April 2017
“Dinner with Rick and Laurel,” Artists and Writers Cookbook, powerHouse Books, 2016
“Time Capsule,” The Photographer’s Playbook, Edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern  2014
“Photographs not taken,” Edited by Will Steacy, 2012
“Laurel Nakadate on Diane Arbus,” Aperture.org, 2012
“Squail", Dear Dave Magazine, Issue #11 2011
“Island Light,” The Highlights, issue XIII 2010




Selected Group Exhibitions


2020   Labor: Art and Motherhood in 2020, NMSU art gallery, Las Cruses, NM
           
 Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
             Keeper of the Hearth, curated by Odette England, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
             HOW TO HUMAN, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany


2019   Sit-in, University of Arkansas Art Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
            Rust & Bones, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
            Door Into Summer/M's Collection + Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
            Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art, 21C, Lexington, KY


2018    Wide Angle: Photography Out of Bounds, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
            MOTHER, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
            Downstage from Meatyard, University of Kentucky Art Museum
            Sit-In, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
            In(di)visible, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX


2017    Learning From Big Mistakes, Galerie Tanja Wagner at 53 Orchard Street, New York
            Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
            The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
            Dizziness: Navigating the Unknown, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
            Affecting Images: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y.
            Navigating the Unknown: Elastic Actions in a Dizzying World, Kunsthaus Graz, Space 02, Austria


2016    Blue Jean Baby, September, Hudson, NY
            Land/Sky: Temporal Concepts, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
            Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York
            Picturing Family, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT


2015    Hampster Hipster Handy, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
            Partial Presence, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
            Self-Timer Stories, MUSAC Leon, Spain


2014    Selbstauslöser, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
            Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, MUDAM Luxembourg
            Self-Timer Stories, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, NY
            Sitebound: Photography from the Collection, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
            Wrong’s What I Do Best, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
            Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
            Cast, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
            Imprints, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
           SKIT, The Hole, NY
2013    Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
           Double Indemnity, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom
           Draft Urbanism, 2013 Biennial of the Americas, Denver, CO
           Dis-Semblance: Perceiving and Projecting Identity Today, 21c Museum, Cincinnati OH
           In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
          War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago
          Day After Day, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, NY
          More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
          More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN


2012    Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
           Desire, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway
           Privat, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
           On Sincerity, 808 Gallery, Boston University, MA
           Summer Camps: Rêverie américaines sur l'adolescence, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
           Out of Focus: Photography, The Saatchi Gallery, London
          Kinomuzeum, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
          The Virgins Show, curated by Marilyn Minter, Family Business, New York
          In Character: Artists' Role Play in Photography and Video, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
          Fokus 2012 Video Kunst Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
          Campaign, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
          Gaze and Lust: Sexuality in Contemporary Art, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway


2011    Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, United Kingdom
           International Incheon Women Artist’s Biennale, Incheon, South Korea
           Intimacies, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
           Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany
           Inner Piece: Works from the Collection of Heather and Tony Podesta, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center,               Washington, DC
           Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
           Sex Drive, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
          She Devil 5, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO), Rome, Italy
          Involuntary, Ford Projects, New York, NY
          Laurel Nakadate Presented By the Art Production Fund at the Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
          Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
          Alice in Wonderland, Turku 2011, Turku, Finland
          Images from a Floating World: 19th Century Erotic Prints and the Echo in Modern and Contemporary Art, Fredericks & Freiser               Gallery, New York, NY


2010    Art Star, Galerie SAW, Ottawa Canada
           She: In Her Teens and Twenties, University Art Gallery, San Diego State Univ. San Diego, CA
           Saccharine, Grimm Museum, Berlin, Germany
           Love Sick, Billboard Project, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
           Back to New York, HP Garcia Gallery, New York, NY
           Seks Is Mer, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
           Escape from New York, 24 ½ Van Houten Street, Paterson, NJ
           Day and Night, The Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen
           Group Show, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
           Desire, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin
           Medianation, curated by Gilbert Vicario for Fotofest 2010, Houston
           Out of the Woods, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2009    100 Years, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY and the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf
            Endurance: Daring Feats of Risk, Survival and Perseverance, Abington Art Cntr., Jenkintown, PA.
            Now That I’m By Myself, She Says “I’m Not By Myself,” Diverse Works, Houston
            Unreal Asia, 55th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
            Pictures: Tracey Baran, Nikki S. Lee, Laurel Nakadate, Kunié Sugiura, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
            KunstFilm Biennale, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
            KunstFilm Biennale, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
            KunstFilm Biennale, KunstWerke, Berlin, Germany
            Invisible Adversaries, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
            Thorn Eye, Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan


2008    As Others See Us, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
             One Way or Another, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
             The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
             One Way or Another, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
             Weight of the World, Reed Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
             Chalk Reindeer 2008, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia


2007     Americans in New York, Gallery Michel Rein, Paris, France    
              Keeping up with the Joneses, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York, NY
              KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne, Germany
              One Way or Another, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
             Weather Report, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
             This Is My Country,  Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA
             Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
             The End is Nigh, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
              Identity Thieves, Asia-Australia Arts Centre- Gallery 4A , Sydney, Australia
             50,000 Beds, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
             Idiot Joy Showland, IFC Film Center,  New York, NY
             Fung Wah, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
             A Night at The Museum, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
             M*A*S*H, The Helena, New York, NY
            One Way or Another, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX


2006        Heartbreaker, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
                Haunted States, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
                KunstFilm Biennale, Berlin, Germany
                Video And Performance, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX
                One Way or Another – Asian American Art now, Asia Society, New York, NY
                Reckless Behavior, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
               Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan


2005        Dead of Winter, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
                 Oh Boy, New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY
                 I Was Only Acting, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
                 Greater New York, P.S. 1, New York, NY
                 Nine Portraits, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                 Vicious, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                 KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne, Germany
                 Art Review: 25 – 25 Best Emerging Artists, Phillips, De Pury and Co, New York, NY


2004    Get Off, Museum of Sex, New York, NY


2003    Towards a Low-End Theory, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
              Fresh Blood, Center for Experimental Photography, Buffalo, NY
              25 Under 25, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC


2002    Enough About Me, Momenta, Brooklyn, NY
              Holiday Shopping, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY






Selected Film Screenings and Performances




2019     Parish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
2018     SUNY, Staten Island, NY
2017     Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2015     Tenderness at anthology Film Archive
2014    Yale University School of Art
2013    An Open Confession, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
             Grrls on Girls, Nighthawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY
2012    Yale University School of Art

2011    Three Performances in Search of Tennessee,  in collaboration with James Franco, Performa 11,
             ​Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
             Institute of Contemporary Art, London
             Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA
             Modern Monday, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
             San Francisco Film Society,  Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA
2010    Gotham Awards, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
             Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
             Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
             The Museum of Modern Art: Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum 2, New York, NY
             Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
             Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL (prize for Best Narrative Feature)
             The Danish Film Institute, Cinemateque, Copenhagen, Denmark
             Civil Disobedience, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
             The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
             Fotofest, Houston
             University of Wisconsin, Madison
             University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
             175/Zabludowicz Art Collection, London
             ​Sewanee Conference on Women, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
             Art, Image and Exploitation (conference), Talinn, Estonia
             Pleasure Dome, Toronto    
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2009    Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
             New Directors/New Films, The Museum of Modern Art & The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY
             San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
             Rooftop Films 2009 Independent Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
             Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
             Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, UK
             New Directions in Documentary Film Conference, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA








Selected Bibliography


“Laurel Nakadate, Strangers and Relations,” Time Out New York, June, 29, 2013
“Laurel Nakadate,” The New Yorker, June 10 & 17, 2013
“Musée Talks to Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations,” New York Magazine, June 3-10, 2013
“365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears,” Space Cool Hunting, June 18, 2011
“Body of Work,” TrendCentral, April 12, 2011
“Alice In Wonderland,” The Finish Museum of Photography, Exhibition Catalogue, 2011
“Portrait of the Artists,” Modern Painters, December 2010/January 2011
“Laurel Nakadate: Lucky Tiger” European Photography, Summer 2010
“The Wolf Knife,” IndieWire Magazine, June 18, 2010
“Black Bleeds Red,” Paper Monument, April 2010
“The Everything Film Show.” March 2, 2010
“Today’s Top Stories: Sundance 09 Responses”, Filmmaker Magazine, Winter 2009
“Visual Space,” Art Lies, Fall 2009 (Cover image)
“Voice Choices: Jonesing, Looking From the Outside In,” Village Voice,  January 2-8, 2008
“Art Talk!,” Vice TV, November, 2007
“Heartbreak Hotel,” Vice Magazine, January, 2007
“La caja negra del CAAM acoge una muestra sobre danza con el 11-S de fondo,” La Gaceta, April 2004
“Fall Round-Up,” The New Yorker, September 2006
“Behind (of) the Times,” Washington Post, May 12, 2006
Ackermann, Heinrich, “Beschleunigter Zugang zu Einsamkeit und Hiflosigkeit,” Zeitkunst, Nov. 2011
Amir, Yaelle. “A Gallery of Tears,” Art Slant, June 12, 2011
Anderson, Jason.  “Excess Interaction,” Eye Weekly, October 9, 2008
Antonini, Marco. “Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely,” Art Pulse, July 2011
Artsy Editors, Artsy Magazine. “When Artists Turn to Craigslist…”, October 27, 2017
Ashraf, Anatole. “Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely,” NY Arts Magazine, July 2011
Asper, Colleen. “Laurel Nakadate & Lilly McElroy,” Beautiful/Decay, Issue Y (Winter 2008)
Ayers, Monica, “Casiotone for the Painfully Alone”.  The Big Takeover, Issue #64
Ayers, Robert. “Laurel Nakadate,” Eikon, Issue #74, May 2011
Baker, Kenneth, “One Way or Another,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 2007
Baker, R.C. “The Pickup Artist,” Village Voice, February 2, 2011
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show,” Village Voice, November 16, 2006
Barker, Andrew. “The Wolfe Knife,” Variety, Jun 21, 2010
Berwick, Carley. “Stripteases, Sheiks, Sneakers,” Bloomberg, September 2006
Biesenbach, Klaus. “American Innocence,” in Henry Darger, Prestel: Munich, et. al., 2009.
Biesenbach, Klaus.  “Klaus Biesenbach’s Top 10 ‘Reality’ Artworks,” W,  November 2010
Binlot, Ann. “Is Performance Art the New Method Acting? James Franco Channels Tennessee Williams for Performa
​with Laurel Nakadate,” ArtInfo, November 16, 2011.
Blanche, Andrea. “Museé Talks to Laurel Nakadate,” Museé Magazine, May 7, 2013.
Brody, Richard. “The Film File: The Wolf Knife,” The New Yorker, January 31, 2011
Brown, Lane. “Winter’s Bone Dominates Ind Spirit Award Noms,” New York Magazine, Nov 30, 2010
Brooks, Brian and Eugene Hernandez.  “Park City ‘09/ Sundance Sets Slate: 64 Films to Compete in Park City,” indieWIRE.com, December 3, 2008.
Brown, Griselda Murray. “In Person,” ft.com (Financial Times), October 2011
Brougher, Kerry and Russel Ferguson. “Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Del Monico Books, Prestel, December 12, 2013
Buchanan, Kyle. “James Franco Sits Next to the Best People at Parties,” Vulture,
Buhr, Elke  “Preview: Laurel Nakadate in New York,” Monopol, January 2011
Chang, Alexandra. “Stay the Same Never Change,” ArtKrush, March 5, 2008
Cohen, Alina. “Laurel Nakadate Used Photoshop to Rewrite Her Family’s History,” Artsy, January 31, 2018
Cook, Greg. “Laurel Nakadate at Harvard,” The Boston Phoenix, November 29, 2011
Cook, Rachel, “The Other F-word,” Artlies Magazine, issue 54, 2007
Cornell, Matt. “Laurel Nakadate’s The Wolf Knife: Choose Your Own Adventure,” LA Record, June 20, 2010.
Coxhead, Gabriel. “Laurel Nakadate,” Time Out London, October 2011
Crump, James. “Lightborne Artist-in-Residence: Laurel Nakadate,” Photo Pages, Vol. 2 Issue 1, 2011
Cruz, Araceli, “Caught Black Handed”, The Village Voice, July 1-7, 2009
Desai, Vishakha. Host of Asian America.  “Young Asian American Artists Today” April 2007
Dixit, Jay. “The Highly Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl,” RollingStone Magazine, March 15, 2001
Doyle, Chris. “50,000 Beds,” Art Space, Real Art Ways, Aldrich Museum, July 2007
Donoghue, Katy, “Laurel Nakadate,” Whitewall Magazine, Spring 2012
Dugan, Adam. “Laurel Nakadate - Uncertainty is Your Friend,” American Subarb X, September 28, 2011
Duncan, David. “Laurel Nakadate,” Art Lies, Fall 2009
England, Odette, 
 Keeper of the Hearth,  edited by Odette England, 2020
Eleey, Peter. “Review: Greater New York,” Frieze, May, 2005
Elgaard, Petrine. “ Lolitas Leg Med Ensomme Maend,” Politiken, May 14, 2010
Ewing, William A., “Laurel Nakadate,” Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, Booth-Clibborn Editions, United Kingdom, 2012
Fader, Lainna. “Torn Apart by This Thing She Can’t See,” Obey, June 2011
Fagerholm, Matt. “17th Annual Chicago Underground Film Fest”, Hollywood Chicago, June 27, 2010
Fear, David.  “Three the hard way,” Time Out New York, March 26 – April 1, 2009
Finch, Charlie. “Danger is Her Game,” artnet.com, April, 2005
Finch, Charlie. “A Sprinkling of Diamonds,” artnet.com, December 13, 2002
Finch, Charlie. “My Own Private Biennial,” artnet.com, November 28, 2001
Finkel, Jori. Laurel Nakdate Flirts with Danger in String Bikini at the Standard Hotel,” Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2011
Finkel, Jori. “Saying the F-Word”, Artnews Magazine. February 2007
Fiske, Courtney. “Laurel Nakadate – Boston, Critics’ Picks,” Artforum, December, 2011
Fleissig, Peter.  “Laurel Nakadate’s ‘Only the Lonely’ Opens at PS1,” vogue.com, January 21, 2011
Franco, James. “Laurel Nakadate,” BULLETT, Spring 2012
Franco, James. “Talking with Laurel Nakadate,” Playboy, Vol. 60 No. 1, January/February, 2013
Gaitskill, Mary. “Beg For Your Life: In the Well with Laurel Nakadate,” SF 360, February 24, 2011
Gerhard, Susan.  “Not the “Same” thing.” SF360.org, January 26, 2009
Goldstein, Andrew. “Artist to Watch: 7 to Watch this May, from Laurel Nakadate to Jeff Koons,” Artspace, May 7, 2013
Gopnik, Blake. “Lolita, With Fangs,” The Daily Beast, February 15, 2011
Goddard, Peter. “When the Arthouse Isn’t Arty Enough,” The Toronto Star, October 17, 2008
Goss, Shannon. “A Different World,” Audrey Magazine, July 2007
Haines, Chelsea. “Beyond the Schreber Principle,” Mousse, November 2012
Hamilton, Caroline “Laurel Nakadate,” Art and Australia, Spring 2007
Hammer, Katie Diamond “Twenty-Six Female Artists on Linda Benglis and The Art World’s Gender Problems, New York Magazine, November 23, 2014
Harris, Jane. “Laurel Nakadate,” Time Out New York, November 23, 2006
Harris, Jane Ursula, “Mommy Issues? Artists Have Those Too!,” Garage Magazine, October 2, 2018
Hathaway, Jay. “Crying Into a Webcam…,” New York Magazine, December 2, 2015
Heilenman, Diane. “Commentary: Exhibit Will Pull Your Views Into Show,” Louisville Courier –
Journal, January 15, 2006
Henely, Kalvin. “Interview with Laurel Nakadate”, Time Out New York, November 23, 2006
Higgins, Jackie. “Lucky Tiger #8,” Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus, 2013
Horvitz, David. “A Wikipedia Reader”, 2008
Howard, Christopher. “Laurel Nakadate and the Art of the Tease,” The L Magazine, May 25, 2011
Hudson, David.  “ND/NF Stay the Same Never Change: IFC.com, March 26, 2009
Hurney, Hannah.  “Sundance: Day 2,”  Hotinhollywood.tv, January 16, 2009
Ichikawa, Akiko, “Love Hotel and Other Stories,” Flash Art, 2005
Indrisek, Scott. “Studio Tracks: Artist Laurel Nakadate on How Elliott Smith and Frightened Rabbit Helped Her Weep for Art,” ArtInfo, June 3, 2011
Indrisek, Scott. “A New Novel Asks…” Artsy, February 8, 2018
Indrisek, Scott. “Laurel Nakadate ‘Only the Lonely’ at MoMa PS1,” ArtInfo, January 26, 2011
Indrisek, Scott. “Laurel Nakadate,” The Believer Magazine, October, 2006
Irvine, Karen. “Repositioned Personal,” Daegu Photo Biennale 2012-Photographic!, 2012
J.S. “The Art of Laurel Nakadate, Lust and Loneliness,” The Economist (online) July 13, 2011
Jackson, Alex. “Film Freak Central Does Sundance: Stay The Same Never Change,” Film Freak Central.net, January 21, 2009.
Jenks, Debra, “Keeping up with the Jonses,” Chelsea Now, December 7, 2007
Johnson, Ken. “A Burgeoning Film Career Built on Random Encounters,” New York Times, February 25, 2011
Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: Laurel Nakadate,” New York Times, May 6, 2005
Kaiser, Marie.  
Art aber fair - die Kunstkritik auf radioeins.  2020
Kastner, Jeffrey. “A Provocateur Who Talks To Strangers,” The New York Times, January 23, 2011
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Laurel Nakadate, MoMA PS1” Artforum, January 2011
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Laurel Nakadate,” Artforum, September 2009
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Laurel Nakadate,” Artforum, January, 2007
Keppler, Nick, “Asia Minor,” Houston Press, January 23, 2007
Kerr, Merrily. “Laurel Nakadate, ‘365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears’,” Time Out New York, June 2-8, 2011
Klassen, Rebecca, “Laurel Nakadate,” Hyphen Magazine, Summer 2007
Kley, Elizabeth, “Gotham Art and Theater,” Artnet, June 25, 2009
Knight, Christopher. “One Way or Another,” L.A. times, March 11, 2008
Kourtesis, Danielle.  “Q&A with Visual Artist Turned Filmmaker, Laurel Nakadate,” Flavorwire, July 23, 2009
Kunitz, Daniel. “Art Review 25,” Art Review, 2005
Kunitz, Daniel. “Defying the Definitive,” The New York Sun, September 14, 2006
LaBute, Neil. “The Girl Who Knew Too Much,” December 15, 2007
Lambert, Olympia. “Fallen Angel: Laurel Nakadate at Leslie Tonkonow,” Oly’s Musings, May 30, 2009
Lamuinere, Michelle and Allison N. Kemmerer. “In Character: Artists’ Role in Photography and Video,” Exposure, Volume 46:1. Spring 2013
Laster, Paul. “Laurel Nakadate Documents 365 Days of Her Own Tears,” Flavorwire, May 11, 2010
Lavin, Maud.  “Girls!, Girls!, Girls!,”  TBA publication date
Lee, John H.  “Laurel Nakadate’s Film to Premier at Sundance,” Theme Magazine.com, December 9, 2008
Lincoln, Kevin. Vulture. “Why Creep isn’t Actually A Horror Movie,” October 25, 2017
Longworth, Karina. “LAFF+L.A. Live = Luv,” LA Weekly, June 17, 2010
Loos, Ted. “People are Talking About/ Danziger Projects,” Vogue, December, 2004
Lowe, Justin. “The Wolf Knife—Film Review,” The Hollywood Reporter, July 3, 2010
Lowry, Glenn et al. “Greater New York: PS1 / MoMA,” Museum of Modern Art, 2005
Maak, Von Niklas. “Im Leben der Anderen,” Frankfurter Allgemeine, September 7, 2011
Maeland, Hilde. Desire, Exhibition catalogue, Bergen Art Museum, 2012
Massara, Kathleen. “James Franco and Laurel Nakadate Discuss Brad Renfro at the New Museum,” Huffington Post, June 11, 2012
Maul, Tim. “Laurel Nakadate,” Art In America, October 2009
McMahon, Regan. “Artist Laurel Nakadate at Crossroads of Sex, Power.” San Francisco Chronicle, February 18, 2011
Miller, Michael H. “The Cry Baby,” The New York Observer, February 7, 2011
Minter, Marilyn. “Laurel Nakadate and Mika Rottenberg, “the Paris Review, Summer 2011
Monopol Magazine, “Smalltalk with Laurel Nakadate” January 2020
Moody, Rick. “From the Desk of Rick Moody: Stay the Same Never Change,” Magnet Magazine, November 11, 2009
Moody, Rick. “The Weeping Breviary,” Modern Painters, March 2011
Morgan, Eleanor. “Dancing With Strangers: The Disturbing Videos of Performance Artist Laurel Nakadate,” The Guardian, October 8, 2011
Morrow, John. “Laurel Nakadate’s Strangers and Relations,” Artlog, May 23, 2013
Musetto, V.A., "An Undie Achiever," New York Post, Sunday June 21, 2009
Musetto, V.A.  “Girls Just Wanna Grow Up,” New York Post, April 5, 2009
Nakadate, Laurel. “Laurel Nakadate Reinterprets Prom Night,” Garage Magazine, March 5, 2018
Nathan, Jesse.  “Bravery, Panties, and Devil’s Tower: The Rumpus Interview with Laurel Nakadate,”  The Rumpus.net, April 8, 2009
Nielson, Elizabeth. “Zabludowicz Collection Collecting Collections,” Next Level, Issue 19, 2009
Niccum, Jon.  “Dance With Sundance: Trio of Projects Shot in Kansas advance to film festival,”  Lawrence Journal-World, January 16, 2009
Noe, Rain N. “Lens on the Lonely,” Theme Magazine, February/March 2008
Olsen, Mark.  “LAFF 2010: Laurel Nakadate’s Risky ‘The Wolf Knife,’ Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2010
O’Sullivan, Michael. “Pushing Boundaries,” Washington Post, May 19, 2006
Partner, Humpday, and Stingray Sam.”  Flavorwire.com, January 21, 2009
PDN Editors. “PDN Photo of the Day, Laurel Nakadate, The Kingdom #2”  PDN.com September 27, 2018
Pearson, Erica. “Manhattan artist Laurel Nakadate cries for 365 straight days for ‘A Catalogue of Tears’ photos,” Daily News, January 25, 2011
Peers, Alexandra. “Ouija Board Secured…,” New York Magazine, November 11, 2011
Pellerin, Ananada. “Neil Labute Selects Laurel Nakadate, Oops! I Did It Again…In Your House,” Dazed & Confused Magazine, May 2011
Perilli, Benedetta. “Un anno di lacrime, il progetto de Laurel,” Repubblica.it, May 2011
Princenthal, Nancy, “POST-EROTICS,” Art in America, May 2012
Remy, Patrick. “Eight Women,” French Vogue, March, 2004
Ribas, João. “Sex, Danger and Videotape,” The New York Sun, October 23, 2006
Robinson, Walter. “Weekend Update: Museum of Sex,”  Artnet.com, April 30, 2004
Rogers, Morgan “Stay the Same Never Change,” Redux Magazine, April, 7 2008
Romero, Mark. “Laurel Nakadate, The Kingdom,” What Should We Do, February 12, 2018
Rosen, Steven. “Laurel Nakadate Eagerly Awaits Upcoming FotoFocus Lecture,” CityBeat, October 16, 2012
Rosenberg, David. “The Photographer is Related to All of These Strangers,” Slate, June 25, 2013
Rosenberg, Karen. “Performance Art for an Audience of One,” The New York Times, February 3, 2011
Rosenberg, Karen. “Laurel Nakadate,” The New York Times, June 26, 2009
Rosenberg, Mark Elijah. “Atay the Same Never Change,” IFC.com, January, 2009
Rudick, Nicole. “What We’re Loving: Boar Hearts, Panic, and Shirley Jackson.” The Paris Review, May 24, 2013
Saito, Stephen. “A Spririted Q & A with ‘The Wolf Knife’ Director Laurel Nakdate,” IFC News, February 3, 2011
Saltz, Jerry. “10 Best Art Shows of 2018,” New York Magazine, December 6, 2018
Saltz, Jerry. “How to Be An Artist,” New York Magazine, November 27, 2018
Saltz, Jerry. “To Do: March 7-21, 2018,” New York Magazine, March 7, 2018
Saltz, Jerry. “Laurel Nakadate, Strangers and Relations,” New York Magazine, June 3, 2013
Saltz, Jerry. “To Do: May 29-June 12, 2013,” New York Magazine, May 26,2013
Saltz, Jerry.  “The Year in Art” New York Magazine, December 4, 2011
Saltz, Jerry. “Sob Stories,” New York Magazine, May 30, 2011
Saltz, Jerry. "Hey There Mister," New York Magazine, June 15-22, 2009
Saltz, Jerry. “Desperata,” Village Voice, April, 2006
Saltz, Jerry. “Whatever Laurel Wants,” Village Voice, May 2, 2005
Saltz, Jerry. “Lesser New York,” Village Voice, March 28, 2005
Santi, Veronica. “Laurel Nakadate, The Kingdom,” ArtForum.com, February 2018
Sandals, Leah. “Iconic? Ironic? Try Both,” Toronto National Post, November 8, 2008
Scheib, Ronnie.  “Stay The Same Never Change,” Variety, March 24, 2009
Schwartin, Jen.  “You Dirty, Worthless Slut,” Paper Monument, Issue 2, Fall 2008
Schubert, Alex. “First Friday,” Kansas City Star, January 30, 2008
Schütte, Christophe. “Macht, Verfühurung und Einsamkeit,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, October 23, 2011
Shaw, Kerry. “The New Pop: Moon Portraits, Laurel Nakadate,” POP Magazine, Spring/Summer, 2012
Ship, Jesse. “Laurel Nakadate,” Format Magazine, October 19, 2008
Siegel, Miranda. “The Provocateur: Laurel Nakadate,” New York, December 4, 2011
Simmons, Russ.  “KC Filmmakers Shine At Sundance,” KC Tribune, January 30, 2009
Small, Rachel. “Under the Stars with Laurel Nakadate,” Interview Magazine (online edition), June 25, 2013.
Smith, Roberta. “Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations,” The New York Times, June, 21, 2013
Smith, Roberta. “One Way or Another,” The New York Times, September 8, 2006
Solomon, Tessa, “In 365 Days Instagram…” Art News, January 21, 2020
Spaid, Sue. “Laurel Nakadate,” artUS, Issue 27, 2009
Spaulding, Daniel. “Forging Disparate Identities,” The Daily Californian, September 2007
Spencer, Laura. “Stay the Same Never Change,” KCUR radio interview, January 31, 2008
Stanley, Caroline. “Rooftop Film @ Sundance: Quick Reviews of Stay The Same Never Change, Old
Stovall, Adam. “L.A. Film Festival 2010,” CS Weekly, June 25, 2010
Schwabsky, Barry. “’You’re So Pretty’: On Laurel Nakadate,” The Nation, April 6, 2011
Therond, Eve, “A l’hotel avec Laurel Nakadate,” Photo Magazine, Summer 2009
Thorson, Alice.  “Angst and Alienation,” Kansas City Star, February 23, 2008
Thorson, Alice. “A Crisis of Self,” Kansas City Star, December 3, 2006
Tillman-Hill, Iris et al. “25 Under 25: Up and Coming American Photographers,” CDS and   Powerhouse Books, 2003
Unferth, Deb Olin. “The Wolf Knife, A Feature Film by Laurel Nakadate – Introduction,” The Believer, March/April 2012.
Uyehara, Sean. “Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen,” SF 360, February 23, 2011
Vicario, Gilbert. “Medianation: Performing for the Screen,” in Contemporary U.S. Photography, Fotofest: Houston, 2010
Vulture Editors. “This is howJames Franco is Hiding Out From North Korea,” New York Magazine, December 18, 2014
Vulture Editors. “The Best of Seen, Part One,” New York Magazine, December 19, 2014
Vulture Editors. “100 Women Directors,” New York Magazine, November 3, 2015
Walsh, Brienne. “We’re All Her,” The Village Voice, June 19-25, 2013
Weil, Harry. “Dancing with Strangers: A Conversation with Laurel Nakadate,” Afterimage, 39.5, March, 2012
Weiß, Jessica. “Laurel Nakadate: ‘365 Days – A Catalogue of Tears’,” Les Mads, May 2011
Weist, Ellen Fagg.  “Artist’s Film Explores the Unease of Adolescence,” The Salt Lake Tribune, January 20, 2009
Weist, Nicholas. “James Franco and Laurel Nakadate Raise the Dead,” Interview Magazine Online, November, 2012
White, Roger. “Art Week: A Five Part Review of Greater New York 2005,” N + 1
Wilner, Norman.  “Nakadate’s Sexual Positions,” Now Toronto, October 9-15, 2008
Wojczuk, Montana. “In Sight: Stay the Same Never Change Mumblecore Cinema and the Essay Film,” BOMB Magazine, June 2, 2009
Woodward, Richard B. “Does This Make You Feel Uneasy?” The Wall Street Journal, June 16, 2011
Yablonski, Linda.“Hotel Rooms Become Overnight Stars,” New York Times, July 8, 2007
Yang, Jeff. “Asian Pop Art Breakers,” SF Gate Magazine, 2006
Yau, John. “Laurel Nakadate’s Diary of Mourning,” Hyperallergic, March 11, 2018
Yau, John. “Strangers in the Night: Laurel Nakadate Meets Her Relatives,” Hyperallergic, June 23, 2013
Yau, John. “Laurel Nakadate Only the Lonely,” The Brooklyn Rail, May 2011
Yeh, Shaway. “Laurel Nakadate,” Modern Weekly, China, 2011
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