Bio

Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is a multimedia artist and educator. Her work explores identity, history, Indigenous Futurism, feminism, ghosts, magic, and her mixed Native American and Jewish heritage through lens based media and installations. She is a Mandel Institute Jewish Cultural Leadership Fellow, a Sundance New Frontier and Indigenous MacArthur Fellow, and was an Interactive Storyteller for Tribeca Film Institute. She has also received support for her work from the Mike Kelley Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and COUSIN Collective. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and has shown in several venues and festivals around the world including the Venice Biennale, Autry Museum, Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Los Angeles Filmforum, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in New York, ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Festival, and Images Film Festival. In 2010 she was the first photographer to win the Santa Fe Indian Market Best of Classification award. LaFountain was born into a family of artists and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College in 2008, and a dual Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Photography & Media and Film & Video in 2014. She is a member of the Echo Park Film Center Collective where she taught filmmaking classes and curated screenings. LaFountain is a guest critic for the Institute of American Indian Arts Studio Art MFA Program, taught Experimental Filmmaking at Otis College of Art and Design, and also worked at CalArts as the Assistant Director of Admissions for the School of Film/Video, as special faculty in the Schools of Art and Film/Video teaching alternative photographic and filmmaking processes, as well as Extended Studies Portfolio Development Workshops and The Art of Filmmaking: Composition and the Moving Image on Coursera.