Laura Arminda Kingsley is an American-born Dominican artist based in Switzerland. Drawing on evolutionary biology, deep time, microbiology, and diasporic mythologies, Kingsley’s practice envisions a humanity that recognizes its oneness with nature and transcends hierarchical categories of race and gender. She creates work that resists the notion of separation, both from the natural world and from those historically othered by colonial ideology.
She holds an Associate Degree in Fine Arts from Chavón in La Romana, Dominican Republic, a Bachelor of Science from the City University of New York - Hunter College, and a Master in Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts.
Kingsley participated in the closing of the 2024 Venice Biennale with her performance "Desblanqueamiento at the San Trovaso River. Her public art projects have been shown as part of “Sculpture in the City” in London (2021), “Tableau Zurich” (2023) and “Twingi Land Art” in Valais (2024), among others. Exhibition participations include The Recovery Plan (2025) in Florence, Cultural Center of Spain in Santo Domingo (2025), VFO Zürich (2024), Helmhaus Zurich (2024), the CICA Museum in Seoul (2021), the Berkeley Art Center (2021), the Kamene Art Center in Nairobi (2024) and the Aargauer Kunsthaus (2023 and 2021).
Her work was awarded the Dorothy & George Saxe Fellowship (2012 and 2014), the Kunstatelier-Stipendium of the City of Dübendorf, and the LOCUS Micro-Grant (2021).
Education
2014 Master of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, US
2012 Bachelor of Science, CUNY B.A - Hunter College, New York, US
2004 Associate Degree in Fine Arts, Chavón, La Romana, DR
Recognitions and Awards
2021 Art Studio Award of the City of Dübendorf
2021 LOCUS Mikro-Grant
2014 California College of the Arts Graduate Merit Scholarship
2014 Dorothy & George Saxe Fund Scholarship
2012 Hunter College Class of 1938 Scholarship
Collections
Die Mobiliar Art Collection
Baloise Art Collection
Swiss Re Art Collection
Zürcher Kantonal Bank Art Collection
Art Collection Kanton Zürich
Graphic collection of the Swiss National Library
Kunsthaus Grenchen Art Collection
Residencies
2025 Murate Art District, Florence, IT
2024 PICMOL 245 Art Residence, Brussels, BE
2024 Kamene Art Residence, Nairobi, KE
2004 Julio Valdez Studio Printmaking Art Residence, New York, US
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Between 'Facelessness' and 'Facefullness', The Recovery Plan, Florence, IT
2025 Recuerda: Eres solo diminutos fragmentos de existencia, Cultural Center of Spain,
Santo Domingo, DR
2024 Mother Water: Maladamatjaute was a Woman, PICMOL, Brussels, BE
2024 Transient Formations, Coin Coin, Zürich, CH
2024 Becoming Thoughts, Dreams and Landscape, Kamene Art Residence, Nairobi, KE
2022 Murmurs of the Deep, Obere Mühle, Dübendorf, CH
2011 Dreams, Thomas Hunter Project Space, New York, US
2010 Selves, Thomas Hunter Project Space, New York, US
Public Art Projects
2024 Twingi Land Art Twingischlucht, Binn, CH
2023 Remember; You are but tiny bits of existence Tableau Zurich, CH
2021 Sculpture in the City, The Leadenhall Building, London, ENG
Performances
2024 Desblanqueamiento at San Trovaso River, Passengers in Transit, Official Collateral
Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Gallery 193, Venice, IT
2024 See Me Through You, Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau,CH
2023 Where We Come From, ECK, Aarau,CH
2023 Wo Wir Herkommen, Künstlerhaus S11, Solothurn, CH
2013 The Procession of Future Artifacts, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US
