LAURIE ANDERSON
Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most visionary and daring artists. A pioneer of multimedia performance, she has continually redefined the intersections of music, technology, storytelling, and visual art. Rising to international prominence with her groundbreaking 1980 single O Superman, Anderson has since created a remarkable body of work spanning albums, films, books, stage productions, and large-scale installations.
Her performances—ranging from intimate spoken word to expansive multimedia spectacles—include landmark works like United States I-V, Songs and Stories for Moby Dick, and Homeland. As a composer and collaborator, she has written for film, dance, and theater, contributed scores to projects by Wim Wenders, Robert LePage, and Bill T. Jones, and released acclaimed recordings on Warner Brothers and Nonesuch.
Anderson’s visual art has been presented in major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, and her 2015 film Heart of a Dog received widespread acclaim. She was the first artist-in-residence at NASA and has been recognized with honors including the Gish Prize and Yoko Ono’s Courage Award for the Arts.
Still restlessly inventive, Anderson continues to expand the possibilities of performance and technology, offering audiences new ways to imagine sound, language, and the world around us.
