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A soloist musician, composer and vibrant collaborator, Laura\u00a0Ortman\u00a0(White Mountain Apache) creates across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks. She has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Jeffrey Gibson, Caroline Monnet, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Martha Colburn, New Red Order, and as part of the trio, In Defense of Memory. An inquisitive and exquisite violinist,\u00a0Ortman\u00a0is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and amplified violin, and often sings through a megaphone. She is a producer of capacious field recordings.\u00a0Ortman\u00a0has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Guggenheim, Pioneer Works, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Contemporain de Montr\u00e9al, MASS MoCA, MCA Chicago, REWIRE Festival at the Hague, Baltimore Museum of Art, The New Museum, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, The Toronto Biennial, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, and Europe. In 2008, She founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis\u2019s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast.<\/p>\n
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Ortman is the recipient of the 2025 Pioneer Works Music Residency,\u00a0 2023 Institute of American Indian Arts Fellowship, 2022 Forge Project Fellowship, 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists, 2020 Jerome@Camargo Residency in Cassis, France, 2017 Jerome Foundation Composer and Sound Artist Fellowship, 2016 Art Matters Grant, 2016 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship, 2015 IAIA\u2019s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Residency, 2014-15 Rauschenberg Residency, and 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room. Ortman was also a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image media=”89020″ media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ css_animation=”zoom-in”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
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\nRives BFK Cream
\nSheet Size: 18.5 x 24.5 inches
\nImage Size: 12.5 x 18.75 inches
\nEdition of 20
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\nPublished October 2021<\/p>\n
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\nRives BFK Cream
\nSheet Size: 18.5 x 24.5 inches
\nImage Size: 12.5 x 18.75 inches
\nEdition of 20
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\nPublished October 2021<\/p>\n