Laura Richard works in modern and contemporary art with a designated emphasis in film. Her recently completed dissertation, “In Situ and On Location: The Early Works of Maria Nordman,” is a political reappraisal of the films, performances and rooms made by the artist between 1967 and 1979. Other current research interests include Judy Chicago’s smoke works, theories of temporality and the everyday, avant-garde women filmmakers, human geographies, performance art, and, in particular, its subset, Endurance Art. Since 2009, she has been the co-coordinator of the Townsend Working Group in Contemporary Art at UC Berkeley. She is Lecturer in modern and contemporary art at UC Santa Cruz.
Laura was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – she was chosen in the Graduate category.