Eve-Lauryn LaFountain

Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain (Ojibwe) is an artist, educator, and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her analogue practice is multifaceted, employing beadwork, installation, and live film performance to explore landscape, identity, family history, and Indigenous futurism from the perspective of her mixed Native American and Jewish heritage. She received a BA in Experimental Film, Photography, and Native American Studies from Hampshire College (2008) and a dual MFA in Film & Video, Photography & Media from the California Institute of the Arts (2014). Her work has been exhibited at venues around the world, including the Venice Biennale, Autry Museum, Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Los Angeles Filmforum, Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, REDCAT, and Images Festival, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including a Sundance New Frontier Labs Fellowship (2019), an Indigenous MacArthur Fellowship (2018), a Flaherty Fellowship (2013), an ABC Disney Film Workshop Fellowship at the Institute of American Indian Arts (2008), and grants from the Mike Kelley Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She was a COUSIN collective Cycle I artist (2020–2021) in support of her documentary project Re/Dislocation, exploring transgenerational Ojibwe migration and the legacies of the Indian Relocation Act. She was general operations manager at Echo Park Film Center (2009–2011) and currently teaches alternative photographic processes and handmade filmmaking as a special faculty member at the California Institute of Arts. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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