Laura Cannamela is an American artist whose work in collage and in ceramic sculpture explores the layered process of landscape formation. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and non-profit spaces across the country and internationally. Recently her collage work was included in the US Department of State Arts in Embassies program in Timor-Leste, and shown in a solo exhibit at The Hammond Museum in North Salem, NY. Her work has been published in Contemporary Collage Magazine and Cut Me Up Magazine. Her ceramic installation, Currents, was selected for the Hudson Valley Artists Purchase Award and entered into the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s permanent art collection.
Cannamela has received recognition for her artwork through grants from the Martha Boschen Porter Fund – a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, the Platte Clove Artist-in-Residence Program, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)SOS Grant Program, the NYFA Mark Program, and the Freeman Foundation, along with the Five College Center for East Asian Studies, to travel to Japan. Born in New Jersey, Cannamela received her MFA from Queens College of CUNY and currently resides in the Hudson River Valley of New York and the Mississippi River Valley of Eastern Ontario, Canada.
“Making a connection between landforms created through erosion by natural forces and relief collage created by cutting away layers of paper is fundamental to my practice. In my artwork, as in nature, the process of layering indicates a state of transformation, becoming a record of change through time.”




















