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

(Selected) Commissioned essays

Reynaldo Rivera: Propiedad Privada, Semiotext(e), Upcoming
Kandis Williams, Hammer Museum, Upcoming
"Morgan Bassichis: Can I Be Frank?." REDCAT, 2025
"Mariah Garnett: Counter Epic,"" COLA. 2024
"Henni Alftan: Simple, Clean Gestures," Ars Fennica. 2023
"Andy Warhol: TV," Fondazione Prada, 2016
"Studio Systems" The American Academy in Rome, 2016
"Zach Harris: Zero Hour," Perrotin Gallery, 2021
"Brie Ruais," Night Gallery, 2018
"Claire Tabouret," Asterisk, Marseille, 2017
"Al's Grand Hotel," Frieze Projects, 2014


Interviews

"Pathological Aliveness." Los Angeles Review of Books, 2022
"The Story of Reynaldo Rivera's Los Angeles." Cultured Magazine, 2022

Magazine/Journal Articles

"Hyper Sensations: Diving in P. Staff's Work." Numero Art Magazine, 2022
Effects Magazine, 2021
"Alive From Off Center (a.k.a. Alive TV), 1985-1996." Walker Reader, 2018
"Martine Syms: A Pilot for a Show About Nowhere." Vdrome, 2016

Reviews

Annamaria Ajmone. Artforum, 2022
Jasper Marsalis at Kristina Kite. Artforum, 2020
Aram Saroyan: New Drawings. Artforum, 2020
Rosha Yaghmai at The Wattis. Artforum, 2020
Annie Leibovitz. Artforum, 2019
Takuro Tamayama and Tiger Tateishi at Nonaka-Hill. Artforum, 2019
measuring with a bent ruler at Actual Size. Artforum, 2018
Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property. Artforum, 2018
Colin Campbell and Lisa Steele in LA., 1976-77 at the ONE Archives. Artforum Online, 2018
Fernando Palma Rodriguez at House of Gaga LA. Artforum, 2018
Nikita Gale at Commonwealth and Council. Artforum, 2018
Patrick Jackson: DUMMUD. Artforum, 2018
Allen Ruppersbergs Sourcebook: Reanimating the 20th Century, BOMB Magazine, 2014