BIOGRAPHY

Laura Huertas Millán is a Colombian and French artist and award-wining filmmaker whose work bridges visual arts, cinema, and decolonial research. Drawing from ethnography, literature, and ecology, her films and installations have been exhibited at institutions like MoMA, LACMA, MASP, and C/O Berlin, and screened at major festivals including Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, and TIFF. A graduate of Beaux-Arts de Paris and Le Fresnoy, she holds a practice-based PhD from PSL University and is a former member of the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University). Between 2020 and 2022, she was a Visting Faculty at the Film/Video Department at Bard College’s MFA and from 2022 to 2024 she co-chaired the department which was renamed the Moving Image Department under her leadership. In 2024, she was awarded the AWARE Prize and the Ulrike Crespo After Nature Award. She is currently developing a feature-lenght film about the history of the coca plant, after a decade long research developed between the Colombian Amazon, the United States, and Europe.