Laura Litten is a video artist based in Washington, D.C.

Her anthropological fieldwork with Indigenous communities in the South Pacific and local cultures in Italy has profoundly shaped her artistic practice, which spans video art, digital painting, and multimedia installations. A former Professor of Television, Aesthetics and Popular Culture at Columbia College Chicago, Litten brings ethnographic methods and cultural understanding to her creative work.

Her current video work explores both feminist experience, and the ecological anxiety in our culture. Her work employs humor and play to investigate the tensions between body, society, and environment.

Litten holds an MA in Art History from the University of Chicago and has worked extensively as a filmmaker and photographer in both artistic and anthropological contexts. Following her move to Washington, DC in 2008, she began experimenting with a distinctive low-tech narrative form combining horizontal inked landscapes with sound compositions. Her methodology, informed by ethnographic research and artistic exploration, combines rigorous investigation with playful experimentation, revealing how humor and ritual serve as bridges across cultural boundaries and personal transformations.