Laurel Nakadate

Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) is an American video artist and photographer living in New York City.

Laurel Nakadate was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Ames, Iowa.

Nakadate's 2005 solo show at Danziger Projects, "Love Hotel and Other Stories," was featured in The New York Times, the Village Voice and FlashArt. Art critic Jerry Saltz named her a "standout" in the 2005's "Greater New York" show at P.S.1.

Since then Nakadate's work has been exhibited at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Asia Society, New York; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Berlin Biennial; Grand Arts, Kansas City; the Mary Boone Gallery, New York; and the Howard Yezersky Gallery in Boston.

A cover interview with the artist appeared in the October 2006 issue of [http://www.believermag.com/issues/200610/?read=interview_nakadate The Believer] .

Nakadate currently lives and works in New York City. She is represented by Danziger Projects.

Work

Her early video pieces featured Nakadate in improvised vignettes alongside a variety of single men that she met in her daily life, later soliciting their participation on camera.cite news
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Her current work removes Nakadate from the immediate focus of attention; videos shown at Danziger Projects in the fall of 2006 centered mainly on Nakadate's men, with results that ranged from humorous to eerily violent.

More recent video pieces include the artist by herself in various hotel rooms, going through the motions of love-making without a partner present. The effect remains as a sad one, usually associated with the loner male as cited in an interview on Art Talk in 2007.

Reception

"New York Times "critic Ken Johnson called her, "smart and scarily adventurous." She was also featured in the book "25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers". [cite book
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Selected Bibliography

2007:
[http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0719,baker,76556,13.html Baker, R.C. "Best in Show," The Village Voice, March 7, 2007.]
Finkel, Jori. "Saying the F-Word," ArtNews, February 2007.
Iaccarino, Clara. "Saddle Up for a Wild Video Ride," The Sydney Morning Herald, March 22, 2007.
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Laurel Nakadate,” ArtForum, January 2007.

2006:
[http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0647,baker,75061,13.html Baker, RC. "Best in Show," The Village Voice, Nov 16, 2006.]
[http://www.e-flux.com/displayshow.php?file=message_1159357895.txt e-flux, Sept 26, 2006.]
[http://www.believermag.com/issues/200610/?read=interview_nakadate Indrisek, Scott. “Laurel Nakadate,” The Believer, October 2006.]
[http://www.nysun.com/article/39699 Kunitz, Daniel. “Defying the Definitive,” New York Sun, Sept 14, 2006.]
[http://www.nysun.com/article/42076 Ribas, João. “Sex, Danger, and Videotape,” New York Sun, Oct 23, 2006.]
Rosenberg, Karen. “Fall Preview – Art,” New York Magazine, Sept 4 - 11, 2006.
[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/arts/design/08asia.html?ex=1172379600&en=6228ad2476162e2f&ei=5070 Smith, Roberta. “A Mélange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities,” New York Times, Sept 8, 2006.]

2005:
Eleey, Peter. “Review: Greater New York,” Frieze, May 2005.
Ichikawa, Akiko. “Love Hotel and Other Stories,” Flash Art, 2005.
[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E4DA1430F935A35756C0A9639C8B63 Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: Laurel Nakadate,” New York Times, May 6, 2005.]
Kunitz, Daniel. “Art Review 25,” Art Review, 2005.
Lowry, Glenn et al. Greater New York: PS1/MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, 2005.
Remy, Patrick. “Eight Women,” French Vogue, March 2004.
[http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0518,saltz1,63589,13.html Saltz, Jerry. “Whatever Laurel Wants,” Village Voice, May 2, 2005.]

References

External links

* [http://www.nakadate.net/ nakadate.net] Laurel Nakadate's web site
* [http://www.danzigerprojects.com Danziger Projects]