Laia Abril
Workshop
Laia Abril is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, text, video, and sound in research-based projects. She is the author of Thinspiration (2012), The Epilogue (Dewi Lewis, 2014), Tediousphilia (Musée de l'Elysée, 2014), and Lobismuller (RM, 2016). She has also collaborated as a creative editor on numerous publications and was part of the staff at COLORS Magazine for five years.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in both private collections and museums, including the Musée de l’Elysée, Fotomuseum Winterthur, FRAC, MNAC, and FotoColectania.
Her ongoing long-term project A History of Misogyny has received several major awards, including the 2016 Arles Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro, the 2018 Visionary Award, the 2019 Magnum Foundation Grant, and the 2020 FOAM Paul Huf Award. Her book On Abortion won the 2018 Aperture–Paris Photo Best Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
Abril is based in Barcelona and is represented by the gallery Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris.