Laura Barlow (she/her) is a curator of international modern and contemporary art who has worked with museums, non-profit organisations, and independent art spaces and projects in Africa, Asia, the UK, and the USA. She is experienced in caring for and building collections of international art, as well as researching, curating exhibitions, publishing, and programming public events with artists and cultural thinkers, with a specialist focus on multi-dimensional sculpture, public art, and architecture.
Laura is currently Senior Curator of Research and Collections at the Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire, UK. From 2019-21, she was Director and Senior Curator of Rubaiyat Qatar, a contemporary art quadrennial at Qatar Museums, Doha, Qatar. In parallel, Laura was curator of a series of public art commissions with contemporary artists. Prior to this, Laura was Curator at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar, from 2014-19. She was Projects Curator at e-flux, New York, from 2010-13, and Managing Editor of Art Agenda Reviews at e-flux from 2010-12. Laura is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London.
