Laura Letinsky
Selected Series

Ill Form & Void Full

This series investigates consumer aftermath and the fragility of elegance. Magazine clippings, reproduced images, and real objects blur boundaries. Working primarily with analog medium-format photography, the arrangements explore the intimate, poetic decay of the table, turning domestic remnants into painterly compositions.

Still life, spatial ambiguity & the remnants of domesticity

Laura Letinsky’s practice orbits the poetic decay of the table. Working primarily with analog photography, she captures half‑eaten meals, wilted flowers, and shifting perspectives.

Born in 1962 in Winnipeg, she now lives and works in Chicago. Her photographs examine the intimate aftermath of consumption — transforming domestic detritus into minimalist compositions suspended between painting and photography.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 To Say It Isn't So Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Laura Letinsky: Still Life School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
2019 Ill Form & Void Full Document Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Crepuscular Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Ill Form and Void Full Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Still Life & The Domestic Space Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2023 Time’s Relentless Melt The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
2020 The Quiet Show Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art Tate Modern, London, UK

Selected Public Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Hermès Collection, Paris, France