Laura Mega works between Rome and New York. She studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and at the Università dell'Immagine in Milan, the school of the five senses created by photographer Fabrizio Ferri.

Her practice alternates drawing, text, embroidery, printing, alongside unconventional techniques such as the use of pink wax for hair removal, applied to textile materials mostly from antique trousseaus. The trousseau—the set of clothes, linens, and other items a bride brings to her new home—becomes the starting point for an investigation into the condition of women and their roles as wives and mothers. With an eccentric, humorous, seemingly playful style, she combines research on the female world with works on contemporary politics, such as recent projects on the U.S. migration and healthcare systems, and explores intimate aspects of everyday life, often overturning appearances.

Laura Mega has exhibited at Ivy Brown Gallery (NYC), M55 Art Gallery (NYC), Resobox Gallery (NYC), Endless Biennial (NYC), Sejong Museum of Art (Seoul), MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Rome), MADXI (Latina), Every Woman Biennial (London), and Clio Art Fair (NYC).

Her works are part of the collections of Moleskine Foundation (Milan) and Glo’Art (Lanaken, Belgium).

She has collaborated with Moleskine S.p.A., PULSE Art Fair – Art Basel Miami, Some Serious Business (Los Angeles), Culture Monks (India), Sense Lab (Milan), and The Blue Bus Project (NYC).

She is the creator and curator of the international art project “DREAMERS” and co-founder of the project “LAZZARO_art doesn’t sleep”.

She has published two limited-edition artist books with the publishing house Pulcinoelefante (Milan), one in collaboration with Alda Merini. In 2021 she wrote and illustrated two artist books: “Amazoniano. Il nuovo HERO”, resulting from her performative research on Amazon warehouse workers, and “ThePinkSide of WTF”, available in a standard and a colorable edition.