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Laura Benetton is a London based multidisciplinary contemporary artist working at the intersection of art and science. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Art, Venice,Italy. In 2008 she has been awarded the Arnaldo Pomodoro’s artist in residence Grant where she spent three months in Urbino, Italy, studying metal sculpture, culminating in the creation of a wall metal sculpture for the Pomodoro’s foundation.

She received her Master in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins University in London ; Her work is informed by scientific phenomena as bioluminescence and movement science as part of her continue research and studies at Central Saint Martins, London.

Generative in nature her work spans a wide range of media, including performance, light installation, sculpture, and bio-art.

Laura’s abstract painting and drawings incorporate the language of geometry where structures are dynamic and entangle color washes, led light and lines.

There is an element of nomadism in Laura’s poetic which is eminent in all her works.

A hidden urgency of movement from one space to another to construct an unconfined realism, a sort of desire to map a territory of migration that evolves overtime with her research.

A key part of Laura’s experimentation is the establishment of space and emancipation.

Often working with Institutions and galleries, Laura questions her work on a deepen level investigating every aspect of the process.

Laura Benetton’s work has being held in private and public collections and commissioned for many private projects including private residences and corporations by art consultants and galleries in London and abroad. Her work has been selected for a different number of art residences and in 2016 she has been awarded to exhibit at the Houses of Parliament for the exhibition “Tomorrow’s child”. Selected exhibitions have included The Houses of Parliament; Zari Gallery, London; Gallery Claire Corsica, Paris, New York; Affordable art fairs; A+A Gallery, Venice; Black Book gallery, Colorado Usa , HubArt Milan, Biennale Fondazione Modigliani.

In 2019 she has been awarded a month-long artist residency in Shenzhen, China, where she had the opportunity to explore intensively her recent research in the field of light installation.

Recently her work has been published in the magazine I_Science from the Imperial College and has been included in The Future Material Bank Library of the Jan Van Eyck Academie.

Laura Benetton is the 2021-2022 Winner of the Laszlo’s year long Artist in Residency program by Artiq gallery and recently the third prize winner of the Landmark Artist Prize in September 2022.

Laura Benetton is also a UAL mentor, educator and a collaborator in the Lepidoptera’s department-Entomology at the Natural History Museum .