About Laura Myntti
Born in Virginia, Minnesota, Laura Myntti grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as in Moscow and Boise, Idaho. Making art was always something Myntti did, though she never considered a profession of art as a possibility until enrolling in art classes at university. She obtained her BFA from the University of Idaho, and has traveled extensively since then; to Paris for the Sorbonne, and living in Seattle, Anchorage, Boston, London, New York City, and then Chicago for twenty years. Laura got her MFA at Claremont Graduate University and now lives and works out of Madison, Wisconsin.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the New York Public Library and the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. She has had International solo exhibitions in Paris, London, Ljubljana, and at The Nordic Heritage Museum show in Seattle. She has created portraits for the Governor of Alaska’s wife and Harvard’s dean of the Graduate School of Design.
