Lauren Redniss

Lauren Redniss is an artist and writer seamlessly integrating artwork, written text, and design elements in works of visual nonfiction. Redniss undertakes archival research, interviews and reportage, and field expeditions to inform every aspect of a book’s creation, from its text, to its format and page layout, to the design of the typeface, to the printing and drawing techniques used for the artwork. Her intimate, idiosyncratic perspective illuminates widely varying subjects. Lauren Redniss received a B.A. (1996) from Brown University and an M.F.A. (2000) from the School of Visual Arts. She is an assistant professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, the New School for Design. She is a 2017 fellow at the New America Foundation, has been artist-in-residence at the American Museum of Natural History (2013), and was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library (2008–2009), where her work was the subject of a solo exhibition in 2011.