LAURA
VUORIO
Laura Marie Katriina Vuorio was born in Turku, Finland, but has lived the majority of her life in Singapore. She received her Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts (Honours) from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, and is currently working as an art's teacher in ArtVillage in Singapore. As a practicing artist, she covers a range of mediums, including painting, drawing, and digital-media. Her work focuses on themes of perception, dealing with sexuality, body politics, disgust, alienation, and humour,which she conveys by the use of the nude female body.
Her most recent work deals with the dynamic manipulation of the female body in art and society, where women have remained in a constant struggle in taking control of their own sexuality, from those whom deem it for her. Through combining motifs of disgust and sexuality into various singular artworks, she aims to pervert the viewers into distorting their own standards of acceptable sexuality. By asserting the presence of the female nude through her body language, eccentric size, and lewd medium, Laura hopes to mould the female body into a symbol of resistance, and to gain control over her own sexual character.
EDUCATION
2015 Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts (Honours)
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
2014 Diploma in Fine Arts (Western Painting)
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
2010 International Baccalaureate (IB) Certificate
International School of Singapore, Singapore
EXPERIENCE
2015 - Current Arts Teacher
Art Village, Singapore
2014 Graphic Designer
Maple TreeHouse, Singapore
2013 Graphic Designer
NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Singapore
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Redefining Sexuality
Merlin Gallery, Singapore
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Bank Art Fair
Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore
The Grad Expectations
NAFA Gallery, Singapore
Unpredictable Volume: A Painter’s Vision
NUS Guild House, Singapore
2014 ‘Comma’ NAFA Final Year Exhibition
NAFA Gallery, Singapore
2010 IB Arts Final Year Exhibition
Sculpture Square Gallery, Singapore
ART ACTIVITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2014 - 2015 Portrait Commissions (series of two)
NUS Paint a President, NUS Guild House, Singapore
2014 Installation Assistant for artist Tang Ling Nah
Aliwal Arts Center, Singapore
AWARDS
2014 Winner of Meeting Room Category
Clyde & Co Clasis Community Art Project