Larson holds a BA in English from Oberlin College and a MFA in Visual Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program as a studio artist from 1993-94.

Larson has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, SFCamerawork, Susanne Vielmetter/L.A. Projects, and Nassauischer KunstVerein in Wiesbaden, Germany. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, Newsweek, M, and The Art Newspaper. She has also published artist projects with Documents, Open City and The Literary Review. Her photographs are in the collections of the Deutsche Bank, the Margulies Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Microsoft, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the New York Public Library and the Sonesta Hotels. She has received grants from Art Matters, Inc and the New York Foundation of the Arts and residency fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Ucross Foundation. Since 2001, her work has been represented by the Lennon, Weinberg Gallery in New York City.

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