Laura Acosta is a Colombian-Canadian transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of textiles, performance, and immersive scenography to create hybrid materialities and transtemporal environments. Through this, she creates surreal characters and worlds that resist a singular interpretation, where meaning emerges from the viewers’ perceptions, relations and subconscious negotiations rather than fixed narratives. To do so, Laura draws inspiration from diasporic, queer and feminist subjectivities to question established relationships between body and space, exploring possible paths towards decolonial forms of embodiment. Collaboration is central to her practice, working with artists and researchers across disciplines to produce textures, shapes and environments that merge physical and digital elements, thus claiming liminality as a generative space.

Acosta has presented her work across Canada and internationally through exhibitions, artist talks, workshops, and residencies. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University and an Master of Fine Arts in fibres and material studies from Concordia University, where she is currently completing her PhD in Humanities with a research-creation focus. In 2023, she and her main collaborator were longlisted for the Sobey Art Award by the National Gallery of Canada, representing Quebec. Her projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts as well as Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.