Veronique Wantz Gallery is excited to host a multidisciplinary solo show of Laura Rockhold’s work in 2026.

Laura Rockhold is a visual artist and poet living in Minnesota. Her multidisciplinary work explores: interconnectedness between the personal, ecological, universal, and spiritual; language and place; and the restorative power of art, hope, beauty, and healing. 

“My creative practice is energized by inspiration, intention, and intuition. I find inspiration in nature, the landscape and wildlife of Minnesota, poetry, writing, art (especially abstract expressionist painting), philosophy, science, music, and my family and friends. I work across mediums, as the source of inspiration often influences the medium(s) for each piece. My visual art and poems are created alongside each other, informing and inspiring each other. 

I view art as an opening—a way to transcend limiting beliefs and systems, and a way to access and express the subconscious, the inner life, the resonant personal and universal truths that elevate and heal the human spirit.”

Laura Rockhold is the inventor of the golden root poetic form and a recipient of: the Save Our Earth Award by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, the Bring Back The Prairies Award and Southern MN Poets Society Award by the League of Minnesota Poets, and several International Academy of Visual Arts and Hermes Creative Awards. Her debut book Thunderroot was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry, and a semi-finalist for The Word Works 2024 Washington Prize. 

Her work is in two exhibits at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, private collections, anthologies, has been nominated for Best of the Net, published internationally in numerous literary journals, and will be the subject of a 2026 feature in Lake Minnetonka Magazine. 

Previously, she was an art gallery director; a communications and marketing director at a global Fortune 500 company; and led copywriting at a global creative agency. She is a trained fine artist and holds a Bachelor of Science in child psychology from the University of Minnesota.