Laura J. Padgett lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.

Born 1958 in Cambridge, USA, she received her BFA in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She continued her studies in film and photography at the Städelschule from 1983 to1985 and received her MA in Art History and Aesthetics in 1994 from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, both in Frankfurt am Main.

Since the 1990s Laura J. Padgett has produced a complex body of work. Further to her work in photography and film, she also publishes texts on film, art and aesthetic theory and has taught and lectured at various universities in Germany and abroad.

Her work is held in various major public and private collections, including the German Historical Museum (DHM), Berlin, Städel Museum, Graphic Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DZ BANK Art Foundation, Frankfurt am Main, Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main, Museum of Modern Art, Museion, Bozen, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Hessen Kassel Heritage, Deutsche Bank Collection, Land Rheinland Pfalz, Land Hessen, City of Frankfurt and the Goethe-University, Frankfurt.