Eve Andree Laramee, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janiero

About Laramée Eve Andrée

Biography: Eve Andree Laramee is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and activist working at the confluence of art and science, specializing in the environmental and health impacts of Cold War atomic legacy sites. Her interest in the culture of science has enabled collaborations with physicists, hydrologists, geologists, biogeographers, and ecologists. Recent projects deal with climate change, sustainability, and the environmental health impacts of our nuclear legacy. In 1980 Laramée began zeroing-in on radioactive issues and atomic legacy sites where uranium mining/milling, plutonium production for nuclear weapons and the nuclear energy industry have contaminated surface water and land with radioactive isotopes. Radioactive contamination is invisible; visual art allows for multiple modes of visualizing the invisible through images and direct action through social-sculpture interventions deployed directly into communities raise environmental awareness, and activate community participation in remediation efforts. Laramee divides her time between Brooklyn, NY, Santa Fe, NM and Baltimore, MD, where she is Professor of Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Performance Art History at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her art has been exhibited throughout the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland, Israel, China, Japan, Poland and the Czech Republic. Her work is included in the collections of the MacArthur Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in numerous other public and private collections. Laramée has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, New York Foundation for Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum.

Website: http://www.evelaramee.com

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