Laura Ortman

Laura Ortman is an American musician and artist from Whiteriver, Arizona who lives in Brooklyn, New York City.

Ortman was born in Whiteriver, Arizona, United States. Ortman was adopted at birth and grew up in Alton, Illinois. Ortman grew up in a musical family. Her mother, Terri Ortman was a pianist who managed a youth orchestra for 20 years. Her sister played the flute and harp, her brother played the french horn. Her grandmother, Mrs. Hummer was a symphony violinist in Des Moines, Iowa^[1] Ortman describes her grandmother as influencing her taste in classical music introducing her to musicians such as Sibelius, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Bartok. As a teen, Ortman was a part of the St. Louis Youth Symphony.

She is a White Mountain Apache.^[2][3] In 2001, Ortman reconnected with her birth family in Arizona.^[2] The timing was significant as it was one month prior to the 9/11 attack in New York, where Ortman was residing and it was also seven months prior to the death of Terri Ortman, her adopted mother.^[2]

Ortman has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas, where she studied drawing, painting, sculpture and performance art.^[2]

In 1997, Ortman moved to New York City.^[3][4] After moving to New York she began doing improvisational music for modern dancers, soon attracting the attention of the New York Native community.^[2] While Ortman lives in busy Brooklyn, New York, she enjoys nature and walks in Prospect Park, as well as hiking and camping in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains.^[2]

Ortman es solista y artista colaboradora. ^{[ 5 ]} Su práctica incluye álbumes grabados, presentaciones en vivo, bandas sonoras para cine y arte. Ortman ha colaborado con artistas como Nanobah Becker , Martin Bisi , Raven Chacon , Tony Conrad , Martha Colburn , Jeffery Gibson , Okkyung Lee , Caroline Monnet y Jock Soto . ^{[ 5 ]} Ortman toca violín al estilo Apache, piano, guitarra eléctrica, teclados, guitarra de pedal steel y canta. ^{[ 5 ]} Ha producido grabaciones de campo. ^{[ 5 ]}

• Bienal de Arte de Toronto 2019 ^{[ 9 ]}
• My Soul Remainer , video, Bienal Whitney 2019 ^{[ 10 ] [ 11 ]}
• Intérprete en "For Zitkála-Šá" de Raven Chacon , Bienal Whitney 2022 ^{[ 12 ] [ 13 ]}
• From My Home to Yours: Caroline Monnet and Laura Ortman (2022), Montclair Art Museum^[14]
• "Transonic Homes" (2023), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum^[15]
• Laura Ortman: Wood that Sings (2024), Baltimore Art Museum^[16]
• 60th Venice Biennale (2024)^[3]

• 2017 Jerome Foundation Fellowship^[8]
• 2016 Art Matters Foundation Grant
• 2016 National Artist Fellowship Native Arts and Culture Foundation
• 2015 IAIA's Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Resident
• 2014–2015 Rauschenberg Foundation Residency
• FIRST NATIONS COMPOSERS INITIATIVE Common Ground Award Grant

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