Laurie McDonald is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, four American Film Institute/NEA Fellowships and was twice-nominated for the Alpert Award in the Arts from CalArts, Los Angeles. Her video work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and festivals nationally and internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Festival du Cinema, the Tokyo Video Festival, and the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. In addition to a BFA in film and video from the Rhode Island School of Design, she holds an MA in Literature from the University of Houston and is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.