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Short Biography
Laura Noel is a photographer and installation artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a Walthall Fellow and a recipient of an Idea Capital Grant. Her work is in the collection of The High Museum of Art, The George Eastman Museum, The Ogden Museum in New Orleans, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design, MOCA GA and a number of private and public collections.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, the Contemporary American Photography exhibition at the Internationale Fototage Festival in Mannheim, Germany, Gallery 24 in Berlin, United Photo Industries in New York City, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Jackson Fine Art,Gallery 1401 in Philadelphia and others.
Her photographs have appeared on-line and in print in Photography Now, Hot Shoe (United Kingdom), Photography Quarterly, PHOTONEWS (Germany), Slate Magazine’s Behold Photo Blog, CNN Photo Blog, Lens Culture, Planet, Art News Daily, The Humble Arts Foundation, F-Stop Magazine, One One Thousand, South X Southeast, La Lettre de la Photographie, Conscientious, aCurator, Fraction Magazine and many others.
Her artist books are in the collections of the International Center of Photography library in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Savannah College of Art Design’s ACA Library of artist books, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Cleveland Art Institute, The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas and many private collections. Fall Line Press will publish Smoke Break in the summer of 2021.
Her most recent installations Will Tomorrow Never Come and Locked, Lost, were part of MOCA GA’s 2018 exhibition, Far From Home: Stories of Refugee Girls. Past installations include a commission from Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority to convert a subway car into an art gallery called Kaleidoscope, To Do, an examination of how mundane tasks usurp creativity, shown at the Spruill Gallery, The Enchanted Forest of Books, on the Atlanta Beltline, and Give/Swap/Receive at Emory University.
Noel works as a photographer and picture editor. She has also taught at Emory University, Kennesaw State University, and Oglethorpe University in Atlanta.