Lauren Buckley is currently Senior Project Curator at Tate, where she leads the development and delivery of international Tate exhibitions in partnership with museums and galleries around the world. Her research and professional interests include post-colonial studies, indigenous Australian art, British Romanticism, arts and disability and approaching British collections through global perspectives.
Recent exhibitions Lauren has led on include Light: Works from Tate’s Collection which she toured to 6 venues in the Asia-Pacific; the exhibition of David Hockney: Moving Focus which travelled to a total of 7 venues worldwide, and most recently, in curating the tour of Hew Locke’s Tate Britain 2022 Commission The Procession to ICA Boston, marking the first time a Tate site commission has toured internationally.
Lauren holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Critical Theory from the University of Western Australia and has completed an Academic Year specialising in Philosophy and History of Art at Bard College Berlin. She holds a Master of Arts in History of Art from the School of World Art and Museology at the University of East Anglia, UK, where she focused on portraiture emerging from the first half of nineteenth century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
