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Laura Jiménez Galvis (Bogotá, Colombia), holds a BFA with a Minor in General History from Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá) and an MFA in Studio Arts with an emphasis in Photography from Hunter College (New York).

Carried by a sense of history, her work focuses on the notion of transience and its connection to the perpetually oscillating ideas of absence, permanence, enigma, and transmutation. Taking form in scale models, props, artists' books, and works on fabric, she grounds her practice in the use of photography—from analogue black and white to high- and low-res digital processes—to discover and recover the past. She does this by photographing art and history collections, natural history museums, and—more recently—the remnant of a lost library. The resulting images are indistinctly printed, cut, creased, and folded to convert them into new paper objects. Her work is informed by a multitude of sources, from the history of art and architecture, cinema, and psychoanalysis, and is strongly influenced by the world of theatre and drama, by familial connection.

Parallel to her artistic practice, she has been a commissioned photographer and image specialist for gallery spaces, museum publications, and art books, documenting art objects and spaces—an exercise which has thoroughly informed her own creative practice. She has worked with artists like Carolee Schneemann and Peter Beard, among others, and was the commissioned photographer of the cover of the inaugural edition of The Magazine of The Artist’s Institute (New York), under the artistic direction of Pierre Huyghe and Jenny Jaskey, which was named "Swiss Most Beautiful Book of the Year" by the Swiss Federal Design Awards.

She has participated in exhibitions in Colombia, the United States, Spain, and France, in places like the Instituto Cervantes New York, Centro Colombo-Americano (Bogotá), Artecámara of the International Art Fair of Bogotá, and Centro Las Cigarreras del Ayuntamiento de Alicante (Spain). She was also part of the two-person show Mise-en-scène: Beyond the Photographic on the occasion of the International Year France-Colombia. Her work has been featured in the pages of 39 NULL Magazin für Gesellschaft und Kultur (Berlin); CARMA Colombian Artistic Research Magazine; and Punto de Fuga: Experimental Platform for Art and Photography). In 2015 she was included in the "promising emerging artists" annual listing from Christie’s Education New York.