Louisa Lee is a writer, editor and lecturer in critical studies at Goldsmiths University, she completed an AHRC funded PhD at the University of York in collaboration with Tate. She has received two postdoctoral fellowships from the Paul Mellon Centre, and one doctoral fellowship from the AHRC to research at the Library of Congress. She has taught art history at the University of York and Fordham University.
Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including Art History, Art Monthly, Sculpture Journal, Burlington Contemporary, The Burlington Magazine, Journal of Visual Art Practice and Philosophy of Photography. Louisa has also edited a book on the artist Jo Spence for Ridinghouse, and written for major publishers such as Phaidon. She has ran reading groups at Flat Time House in London and Spike Island, Bristol, and assisted on the major retrospective at Tate Britain in 2016, Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979.
Before completing her PhD, Louisa completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art and worked at publishers and galleries including Yale University Press, Barbican, Tate and White Cube.