Belenna Mesa Lauto is currently a professor of photography at St. John’s University in New York. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States, and internationally in Spain, France, Italy and Columbia. Exhibition venues include several New York City galleries, The Fogg Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art of Miami, the Parthenon in Nashville, Musee D'Art Moderne in France, Centro Colombo-Americano in Colombia and the Queens Museum of Art. She is represented in several museum and private collections including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Islip Art Museum, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Belenna has lectured and written extensively on the medium of photography and is actively involved in using the photographic medium as a way of contemplating personal and observed moments.
" I work simultaneously with both documentary and mixed media projects, believing that all serious work is an on-going process that requires great discipline, dedication and passion. Art making…and life, for that matter, have similar objectives. They both evolve and improve when we aim to grow and learn from experiences that come from doing the work, putting it out there, and sharing it with others, moving forward and never giving up."
