Laurel Parker studied painting and film at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Fine Arts diploma), and at Tufts University (BFA). In New York, she was an assistant on the Polaroid 40 x 80 Camera, and taught at the Center for Books Arts. In 2008 she created Laurel Parker Book in Paris — a studio for the design, fabrication and publication of artists’ books. She was laureate of the Villa Kujoyama in 2019 in duo with Paul Chamard. En 2020, the studio is adding a gallery space and moving to Komunuma in Romainville, next to the FRAC Reserves, Parsons School, and the galleries Air de Paris, In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, etc. She gives workshops and conferences at different art and design schools in France.