Collection: Laura Valentino

Website: https://www.lauraval.com

Instagram: @lauraval.artist

Laura Valentino is a visual artist based in Reykjavik, Iceland. She has recently returned to her first love, painting, after many years exploring alternative photographic processes, which she also approached in a painterly way. She draws her inspiration mainly from the power of the Icelandic landscape.

Laura has a BFA degree from Eastern Kentucky University and an MA from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a currently a member of the Association of Icelandic Artists (SÍM) and the Icelandic Printmakers Association (IPA), and was a founding member of the former Iceland Film Photography Association. She served on the studio committee of of IPA for 10 years and taught workshops in the gum bichromate process. She curated an exhibition of analog and alternative photography at Gallery Fold in Reykjavik in 2018. Her work has been shown both locally and abroad. 

Since retiring from her job as a UX designer in the fall of 2024, Laura spends her days in her studio at Phenomenon art complex. Expect things to happen.