Laida Lertxundi

Laida Lertxundi is a Spanish artist, filmmaker and professor of fine arts based in the United States and the Basque Country.

[2] Her vocation for cinema began during her studies at Bard College, when she learned about the work of different filmmakers such as Hollis Frampton, Maya Deren and Michael Snow.

Her films use the visual language of Hollywood cinema but omit the narrative, leaving propulsively edited works that lend equal mystery to the Los Angeles skyline, rumpled sheets, or the curve of a neck.

In this way, the more formalistic or abstract aspect of her cinema, with a structural vocation, is pierced by an emotional tone while giving rise to false clues about ambiguous fiction.

[1] Her work has been exhibited at Cibrían, San Sebastian (2024), Highline Art, New York (2023), Artspace Aotearoa (2023), Whitney Biennial New York (2012), Hammer Museum Los Angeles (2026), LIAF Biennial (2013), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Frieze Projects New York (2014) and in museums and galleries such as MoMA in New York (2022, 2017), Tate Modern, London (2016), Whitechapel Gallery, London, Angela Mewes, Berlin (2020), Joan, Los Angeles, Cibrían, San Sebastián (2021), ARKO Art Center, Seoul (2022), McEvoy Arts Foundation, San Francisco (2021), Human Resources Los Angeles (2019), MAK Schindler House (2013), ICA, London (2013), Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia (2015), CCCB (2017, 2013, 2021, 20122), PS1 MoMA (2013), Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago (2013), Baltimore Museum of Art (2013), Kunstverein Hamburg (2014) and the Havana Biennial (2015) among others.