Lauren Mackler is a French-American curator, writer, and designer based in Los Angeles. She has organized exhibitions at MOCA LA, the Hammer Museum, The Huntington, MCA Chicago, Artissima, Frieze Projects, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, MoMA PS1, and more. In 2020, she co-curated the Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum and The Huntington. Mackler has taught at SVA, UCLA, and Otis, and served as managing editor of Sublevel, the literary magazine of CalArts. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, BOMB, Flash Art, and others. She is the editor of Michael in Black, published by CARA and Public Fiction; Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City; and the forthcoming Propiedad Privada, published by Semiotext(e). In 2010, she founded Public Fiction, an ongoing forum for staging exhibitions, performances, and programs by contemporary artists and writers, as well as a journal with the same mission in print. In 2015, she was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome. contact