Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson is the kind of artist who makes genre boundaries look like an afterthought. Trained in violin and sculpture, she emerged from 1970s New York fusing language, technology, and visual imagery into performance art unlike anyone else. Composer, singer, poet, choreographer, writer, filmmaker, she refuses every box, and the Guggenheim Fellowship and Wolf Prize in Arts confirm the field caught up to her vision. For me she is a model of fearless creative curiosity, and the avant-garde is richer for it.

Name (English)

Laurie Anderson

Name (Japanese)

ローリー・アンダーソン

Reading

ろーりー・あんだーそん

Born

June 5, 1947 (age 79)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

composer / singer / poet / choreographer / writer

University

Barnard College

Awards & achievements

• Rome Prize
• 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2017 Wolf Prize in Arts
• Qwartz Electronic Music Awards

• Official sitehttps://www.laurieanderson.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/laurieandersonofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/onlyanexpert
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Anderson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235066

Tags

• Illinois
• composer
• singer
• poet

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.