Laura Mott (US)
Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Design, Cranbrook Art Museum
Laura Mott is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at Cranbrook Art Museum located in metro Detroit, USA. She joined the museum in November 2013 following an active career as a curator and lecturer in both the United States and Europe. Previously, she has worked in various curatorial positions at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, Gothenburg Konsthall, IASPIS in Stockholm, Mission 17 in San Francisco, and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and was an adjunct lecturer at Valand Academy at The University of Gothenburg from 2009-2013. She is a graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York with an MA in Curatorial Studies, and the University of Texas at Austin with a BFA and BA in Art History and Studio Art. She was named a Warhol Curatorial Fellow in support of her exhibition, publication, and public art series Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, 2019.
Participating in
THE SYMPOSIUM: ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE (October 16)
Day two of THE SYMPOSIUM: ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE, featuring the programs WORKING WITH AND WITHIN ENVIRONMENTS (NORDIC TALK SESSION), SCREENING: PLEASE REST IN PEACE FOR WE SHALL NOT REPEAT THE ERROR (2021), CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL (NORDIC TALK SESSION) and SCREENING: 72 SEASONS. More information →