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Lauren Wetmore is a curator, writer, and editor based in Brussels.
She is Director of Programs at Momus, and co-host of Momus: The Podcast, a monthly program dedicated to arts and writing in its 6th season.
As a curator, she has contributed to exhibitions, biennials, and commissioning programs internationally including Frieze Projects (London), the 2013 Carnegie International (Pittsburgh), and Mophradat’s Meeting Points 8 (Beirut, Brussels, Cairo). She has also held positions at Mudam (Luxembourg), The Banff Centre (Banff), and Barbican Art Gallery (London).
Her independent curatorial projects include Contact Tracing for Mudam (Luxembourg), Basir Mahmood: I watch you do for Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), and The Conversation for which she was awarded the Encura curatorial residency at Fundació AAVC Hangar (Barcelona).
Wetmore is editor of the forthcoming book The Employee, with Joshua Schwebel (Art Metropole, 2024) and has contributed to publications including After Laughter Comes Tears, Post-Capital: A Reader (Mudam), Eyes Recently Seen (Letitia Gallery), These Are the Tools of the Present: Beirut–Cairo (Sternberg Press), and Xavier Cha: abduct (MOCA Cleveland). As a critic, she has been published in H ART, Momus, MadaMasr, Spike Arts Quarterly, and C Magazine, among others.
Wetmore has a MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practices from OCAD University (Toronto) and a BA in Art History and Gender Studies from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver).
Contact: lauren [dot] eleanor [dot] wetmore [at] gmail [dot] com