LAURA AUGUST
PHD|CURATOR, RUBIN CENTER
With a history of working between the U.S. and Central America, Laura August, PhD makes texts and exhibitions informed by (mis)translation, making relation, personal and political sanación, and the natural world; her work is structured by living alongside artists and poets, developing conversations and collaborative relationships over expansive periods of time. Her writing about contemporary art in Guatemala City has been awarded The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and her essays, reviews, and interviews have been published in international magazines, exhibition catalogs, edited volumes, and monographs. August was a Core Critical Studies Fellow at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (2016-2018) where she curated the exhibitions Una piedra y la lluvia (2017), Tell it to the Horses (2018), and In Case of Natural Disaster (2018). Her 2019-2020 exhibitions include citysinging (Lawndale, Houston, TX), To look at the sea is to become what one is (Radiator Arts, NYC), Stone’s Throw: Arte de sanación, arte de resistencia (The Anderson, Richmond, VA), and To Weave Blue: Poema al tejido (University of Memphis, TN). In 2021, she was a Mellon Arts + Practitioner Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. She began work as Curator at the Rubin Center in March 2022.
