Film

Kerry Laitala

Princess Grace Award:
Graduate Film Scholarship, 1996

Additional Grants:
• 2015 Special Project Award, 2014 Special Project Award,
• 2007 Special Project Award: Muse of Cinema Series, 2004 Special Project Award

Kerry Laitala is an award-winning moving-image artist who uses analog, digital, andhybrid forms to investigate the ways in which media influences past and present culture. She considers this type of approach to making art a type of media archeology. Laitala's work resides at the crossroads of science, history, and technology, and her uncanny approach to evolving systems of belief manifests through an array of media including films, videos, installations, photographic works, performances and kinetic scuplture. She studied Photography and Film at Massachusetts College of Art and received her Masters degree in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute. Laitala’s 2015 City Luminous Series encompasses seven separate works (and counting), spanning the realms of installation, multi-projector performance, photography, and single-channel film, shown thus far at the Palace of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, the California Historical Society, and in solo shows at Oddball Films and Shapeshifters Cinema. Elements of The City Luminous series have been funded by a Special Projects Grant from the Princess Grace Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission Grant, Yerba Buena Benefit District grant, California Historical Society, and Maurice Kanbar.