Laura Sofía Pérez
Laura Sofía Pérez is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work deals with themes of family history, displacement, and in-betweenness. She often works in collaborative settings of experimentation and improvisation.
Biography
Pérez is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video, film, sound, and installation. She received her MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts. Her work draws from feminist and avant-garde cinema, phenomenological philosophy, Caribbean Postcolonial theory, and ancestral knowledge. She often works in collaborative settings of experimentation and improvisation with artists of varying disciplines and backgrounds to voice common perspectives on political, cultural, and social issues. Recent film festival selections include Doc Fortnight 2024: MoMa’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media and Third Horizon Film Festival 2024. Recent artist residencies include The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2023), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada (2020), the AfA Masterclass: Radical Care with Terike Haapoja (2020), and La Práctica at Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2019).
Pérez is a visiting faculty member at Bennington for Fall 2024.