L.A. Samuelson is an interdisciplinary artist working in contemporary performance, sculpture, installation, and media. Their work follows the transmission of feeling across objects, sites, and bodies, searching for new strategies to help us bear impermanence, attachments to living, and to one another. L.A.'s projects have been presented nationally and internationally at institutions including RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Union Hall, Understudy Denver, Museum of Longmont, Museum of Contemporary Art - Denver, Tatwerk Berlin, and Black Cube Nomadic Museum. Their work has been supported by the National Performance Network and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. They have been an artist-in-residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Crosstown Arts Memphis, and the Denver Art Museum among others. They are a 2024-2025 Movement Lab Research Fellow in the Film/Animation/Video Dept at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). 

 

L.A. holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado-Boulder, with secondary emphases in visual art and somatics, and a graduate certification in Emergent Technologies & Media Arts Practices from the College of Media, Communication, and Information. LA has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance and Digital Arts at Hamilton College, and an instructor at University of Colorado-Boulder and Naropa University. They currently teach contemporary performance at RISD.