Laida Lertxundi is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works between the USA and the Basque Country. Combining conceptual rigor with sensual pleasure in a process she calls Landscape Plus, her films establish parallels between landscape and the body as centers of pleasure and experience.
Her work has been exhibited at the High Line Art, New York (2023 forthcoming), Whitney Biennial, New York, (2012), Hammer Museum (2026), LIAF Biennial (2013), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Frieze Projects New York (2014) and in museums and galleries such as MoMA in New York (2022, 2017), Tate Modern, London (2016), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015), Angela Mewes, Berlin (2020), Joan, Los Angeles (2017), Cibrían, San Sebastián (2021), ARKO Art Center, Seoul (2022), McEvoy Arts Foundation, San Francisco (2021), Human Resources Los Angeles (2019), MAK Schindler House (2013), ICA, London (2013), Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín , Colombia (2015), CCCB (2017, 2013, 2021, 20122), PS1 MoMA (2013), Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago (2013), Baltimore Museum of Art (2013), Kunstverein Hamburg (2014) and the Havana Biennial (2015) among others.
She has had solo exhibitions at Artspace Aotearoa, New Zealand (2023 forthcoming), La Taller, Bilbao (2022), NoguerasBlanchard (2021), Matadero Madrid (2019), LUX London (2018), Tramway Glasgow (2018), FuturDome Milano (2019), fluent Santander (2017), Tabakalera San Sebastián (2017), DA2 Salamanca (2015), Azkuna Zentroa Bilbao, (2014), Vdrome London (2014) and Marta Cervera, (2013). Her films have been screened at numerous festivals such as Locarno, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, BFI, TIFF Toronto, Gijón, San Sebastián or Edinburgh among others.
Writing about her work has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Babelia, Village Voice, Art Agenda, BOMB Magazine, Art in America, Film Comment, The Nation, Revista Código, Editorial Concreta, CinemaScope, among others. She curated moving image programs at Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona from 2001 to 2011.
Lertxundi received a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Bard College. Pedagogy is central to her practice and she is currently a Professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. She also teaches at Universidad del Pais Vasco and previously taught at University of California, San Diego (2008-2014), Art Center College of Design (2015-2019), Pasadena and Otis College or Art and Design, Los Angeles (2015-2017), among other institutions.
Her work is represented by LUX in London and is part of the collections of the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris and various private collections. Her monographic book Landscape Plus was published by Mousse Publishing and fluent in 2019. In 2020 she received the Gure Artea award.
Read Miguel Armas’s LUX New Artist Focus commissioned text on Laida Lertxundi’s moving image practice, re-enactment, and a sense of loneliness and longing here.
