Laura Bernstein is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She uses video, performance, sculpture, installation and painting to reflect on human and animal behavior, historical fictions, mythology, and the grotesque. Her work has been included in exhibitions at The Children's Museum of The Arts, New York, NY; BRIC, NURTUREart, Y2Kgroup Project Space and the Long Island University Humanities Gallery, all in Brooklyn New York; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Vox Populi and Icebox Space, both Philadelphia, PA; ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL; Anytime Dept. Cincinnati, OH; and Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna, Austria. Her artwork is part of the permanent collection of National Dance Institute, NY. She has received fellowships and residencies including the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn; The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Artist in the Marketplace program; The Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, NY; the Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship; and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. She was a 2018-19 Grant Recipient of The Franklin Furnace Fund and has directed and produced A Speculative Performance Presented by The Institute of Super-Species Research and Experimentation in conjunction with the BRIC Biennial: Volume III, South Brooklyn Edition. Bernstein holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA with a certificate in Time-Based Media from the University of Pennsylvania.