ARTWORK
copyright © LEONOR JURADO
Leonor Jurado Laspina
(b. Quito-Ecuador 1979)
EDUCATION:
- M.F.A. 2009 Photography – University of Missouri-Columbia
- B.A. 2004 Studio Art – University of Missouri-Kansas City
- 1998-2000 General Studies – Penn Valley Community College- Kansas City
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- 8/2009-12/2011Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor of 2D Foundations – University of Missouri- Columbia, Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor of Photography – Missouri Valley College
- 6/2008-12/2009 Gallery Assistant, George Caleb Bingham Gallery – University of Missouri-Columbia
- 1-5/2008 Guest Instructor of Photography at the Craft Studio Gallery -
University of Missouri, Columbia - 8/2006-5/2009 Graduate Teaching Assistantship Instructor of Record – University of Missouri, Columbia
- 8/2006-5/2008 Teaching Assistantship of Photography Courses – University of Missouri, Columbia
- 9/2004-6/2005 Reporter/Photographer Boonville Daily News, Boonville, Missouri
EXHIBITION RECORD:
2011
- “Desarraigo“ Solo Show, Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión, Quito, Ecuador
- “On Spirituality: Emerging Visions of the Spiritual“ Group show at Marshall University, Gallery 842, Huntington, West Virginia.
2010
- “Beyond the Resume” Group show at Foundry Art Centre – St. Charles, Missouri
2009
- “Unrooted” MFA Solo Exhibit, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
- “Happy Medium” MFA Graduates Group Show, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
- NAGAS-North American Graduate Art Survey, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Juried by Christopher Atkins, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Macalester College)
2008
- “WINTER SUN: Festival of New Arts and Tradition” Group Show, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY
- “Self-Portraits” at Craft Studio Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia
- “Naturalezas Muertas” with Derek Andes at Craft Studio Gallery, University of Missouri,Columbia
- “Nineteenth Annual Missouri Top 50 Competition” Group Show, Missouri State Fair, Sedalia, (Juried by Tom Piché, Director of Daum Museum of Contemporary Fair Community College, Sedalia MO)
2007
- “Exchange” MFA Graduates Group Show, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2006
- “Plurality” MFA Graduates Group Show, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
- “La Loteria” Group Show, Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- “Vestigios” Group Show, Arsenic Leopard, Columbia, MO
2004
- “Mascarada” with Sara Zuñiga, Utrecht Art Space, Kansas City, MO
- “Self-portraits by Leonor Jurado”, Crave Cafe, Kansas City, MO
2003
- “Uniendo Nuestras Culturas” Group Show, Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- “The Photo Show” Group Show, Late Show Gallery, Kansas City, MO
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS:
- Hazel Steele Burney Endowment, 2008-2009 Department of Art, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
- Ann Stevens Hoffman Memorial Scholarship, 2007-2008 Department of Art, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
LECTURES:
- 2010 Regional Society for Photographic Education/Time for Light: Panel on Photography and Other Facts of Life (Panel with Carlos Diaz, Richard Gray, Elijah Gowin and Jon Yamashiro), October 1, 2010, Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Women and The Politics of Possibilities, June 11, 2010 Montgomery College, Washington DC
- 2009 Lecture Series, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, March 15, 2009 University of Missouri-Columbia
- 2008 “The Body and Photography: Examinations on the Being” The Body Project: Anatomy, Relationships, and Representations” April 11, 2008 English Department and the Center for Arts and Humanities University of Missouri-Columbia
PUBLICATIONS:
2008 Cover of (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies, Spring, 2011
2008 Photograph for the cover of the book Troubling Violence: An Auto/Ethnographic Performance Project, by Elaine Lawless and M.Heather Carver, University of Mississippi Press, 2008
2004 Revista Trazos Libres/November Issue Quito-Ecuador
2002 Shots Magazine 80 Minneapolis, MN
WORKSHOPS:
Photogravure with Deborah Riley :
Two day workshop at Visual and Communications Art Department, Avila University, Kansas City, MO 2003
One day workshop at Art and Art History Department, University of Missouri, Kansas City,MO 2004
Ambrotypes/Wet Plate Collodion:
One day workshop under the direction of Len Fohn in his studio in Kansas City, Missouri.2004
Two day workshop under the direction of Robert Szabo in his studio, Arts Incubator,Kansas City, Missouri. 2008