Laurel Nakadate
Laurel Nakadate was born in Austin, Texas in 1975 to an American mother and a Japanese-American father. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and graduated from Yale's MFA program in photography in 2001. Originally working as a still photographer, she was selected as one of "25 under 25" in the seminal 2000 book and show of that name. Since then she has worked primarily in video. Her first video installation, "I Wanna Be Your Mid-Life Crisis", was one of the highlights of the 2002 Armory Show where it was exhibited by the Daniel Silverstein Gallery. Nakadate's second New York solo show at Danziger Projects, "Love Hotel and Other Stories," in the spring of 2005 was featured in The New York Times, the Village Voice and FlashArt. Art critic, Jerry Saltz named her a "standout" in the "Greater New York" show currently on view at P.S. 1., and she was recently selected by Art Review as one of their top 25 emerging artists. Nakadate currently lives and works in New York City.
