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Lauren Wetmore is a Canadian curator, writer, and editor based in Brussels.
Wetmore is the Director of Programs at Momus, where she creates fellowship, residency, and publishing opportunities for art writers, critics, and journalists. Wetmore stewards these programs through collaborations with leading international cultural institutions including Forge Project and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics; and funding partners such as the Canada Council for the Arts, Critical Minded/Allied Media Projects, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is also co-host of Momus: The Podcast, a monthly program dedicated to arts and writing in its 8th season.
As a curator, Wetmore 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). Her independent curatorial projects include Contact Tracing for Mudam (Luxembourg), Basir Mahmood: I watch you do for the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), and The Conversation for which she was awarded the Encura curatorial residency at Fundació AAVC Hangar (Barcelona). She has also held positions at The Banff Centre (Banff), Mudam (Luxembourg), and the Barbican Art Gallery (London).
Wetmore is editor of The Employee, with Joshua Schwebel (Art Metropole and Forest City Gallery) and has contributed to publications including After Laughter Comes Tears (Mudam/Lenz Press), Post-Capital: A Reader (Mudam/Mousse Publishing), 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 received grants and awards for her work from Creative Europe, Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Goethe-Institut, and the Flanders Arts Institute. She holds a MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practices from OCAD University (Toronto) and a BA with a double major in Art History and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver).
Contact: lauren [dot] eleanor [dot] wetmore [at] gmail [dot] com