LAUREL NAKADATE
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 Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
The Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
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
2023 Ten Performances from 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2022 The Kingdom, George Mason University Gallery of Art, Fairfax, VA
Laurel Nakadate: Mother Line, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, VA
2021 Laurel Nakadate, 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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
Exhibition catalogues
2022 Laurel Nakadate: Mother Line and MOTHER, Tephra ICA and George Mason University
Feature Films
WIP Working title: Hercules Road, TRT, TBT
2010 The Wolf Knife, 88 minutes
2009 Stay the Same Never Change, 93 minutes
Curatorial Projects
2022 MOTHER, George Mason University organized with Lily Siegel and Don Russell
2022 ThesisShows2022.com, listing site for 2021 MFA, BFA and BA thesis shows across America and Canada
2021 ThesisShows2021.com, listing site for 2021 MFA, BFA and BA thesis shows across America and Canada
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
Essays
"Pregnant Selfies," Photo No-No's, Edited by Jason Fulford, Aperture, 2021
“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
“Laurel Nakadate,” A Wikipedia Reader, ed. David Horvitz, 2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Vidéothèque, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, collection exhibition, Mint Museum, Charlotte NC
2022 Mother, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art, 21c Museum, Chicago, IL
2021 Fiction? Better Than Reality, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
A Glitter of Seas, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN
Horses?, Chart Gallery, New York, New York
Car Shows Near Me, Rumpelstiltskin, Brooklyn, NY
New SMFA at Tufts Faculty Exhibition, Boston, MA
2020 Labor: Art and Motherhood in 2020, NMSU art gallery, Las Cruces, 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
2021 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Viewfinder series, Washington, DC
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
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
“The Margins”, Asian American Writers’ Workshop Staff Picks: Best of 2018"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
Adame, Amanda. “Virtual Community Event Brings Worldwide Community…” Las Cruces Sun News, May 12, 2020Ackermann, 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
ArtFixDaily Staff. “Rose Art Museum Opens Four New Exhibitions,” ArtFix Daily, Sep 8, 2017
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, Damar. "10 Cool “10 Cool Art Galleries around the DC Area”, Washingtonian, February 23, 2022
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.
Biro, Matthew. “What is a Photograph,” Artforum, February 6th, 2018
Blanche, Andrea. “Museé Talks to Laurel Nakadate,” Museé Magazine, May 7, 2013.
Blanchet, Stacy. “A Conversation with Laurel Nakadate Scheduled,” Sun Journal July 17, 2021
Blitz, Matt. “Greater Reston Art Center Changes Name to Tephra ICA,” Reston Now. Jan 12, 2021Brody, 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
Burrichter, Felix. The Biennial of the Americas Turns Denver Into a Giant Art Fair. New York Times, July 15, 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
Carlson, Jen. “James Franco Is Bringing A Psychic To The New Museum Saturday,” Gothamist, Jun 6, 2012
Chang, Alexandra. “Stay the Same Never Change,” ArtKrush, March 5, 2008
Charpentier, Abigail. “Alexandra Savior Shares New Single…” Broadway World, Nov 22, 2019Cohen, Alina. “Laurel Nakadate Used Photoshop to Rewrite Her Family’s History,” Artsy, January 31, 2018
Clifford, Christen, “In Brooklyn, 600 Women Artists Unite for a Photograph,” Hyperallergic, Oct 24, 2016
Cristi, A.A..” 21c Museum Hotel Chicago Presents New Pop Starts Exhibition,” Feb 24, 2022
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
Davis, Ben. “Is Getting an MFA Worth the Price?,” ArtNet News, Aug 30, 2016
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
Droitcour, Brian. “At the Finale of Performa 11,” Artforum, November 24, 2011
Dugan, Adam. “Laurel Nakadate - Uncertainty is Your Friend,” American Subarb X, September 28, 2011
Duncan, David. “Laurel Nakadate,” Art Lies, Fall 2009
Dwyer, Michaela, Laurel Nakadate on Grief, Bodily Autonomy and Stories We Tell Ourselves. Indy Weekly, Jan 25, 2023
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
Freeman, Nate. “Editors’ Picks: 10 Events for your Calendar this week…” ArtNet, July 12, 2021
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
Hale, Whitney. “Ralph Eugene Meatyard Sets the Stage,” University of Kentucky Arts, Sep 7, 2018
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
Harris, Jeanene. “Mason Exhibitions Arlington is a Gem for the Neighborhood,” GMU News, February 12, 2022
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
Hernandez, Juan. “A Fine Art Weekend,” Hamilton News, November 9, 2018
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.
Jenkins, Mark. "In the galleries: How DNA provided a platform for intriguing art." The Washington Post, May 20, 2022
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
KFox14 Staff, “NMSU Reopens Art Museum after more than Five Months,” KFOX, Sep 20, 2020
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
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Teaching
2021- Present Professor of the Practice, Photography, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2020 - 2021 Part-time Lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
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
2012 - 2013 San Francisco Art Institute Low-Res mentor for MFA candidate
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
Education
2001 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1999 Diploma of Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
1998 BFA, Tufts University, Medford, MA
