Laura Grace Chipley is a Queens-based interdisciplinary artist whose work examines the relationships between culture, ecology, technology, and power. Working across documentary, new media, and social practice, she develops participatory projects that combine community collaboration with emerging storytelling technologies to explore environmental issues and the impacts of resource extraction.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in publications including the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired. She has received support from Art Matters, the Hudson River Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. In 2015, she was awarded an A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art, and she received National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Projects for the Public grants in 2020 and 2024 for her current project, Virtual Aquapolis. She is an Associate Professor in the American Studies / Media & Communications department at SUNY Old Westbury.   
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