Visitors 2024

Mia Locks is an independent curator and Executive Director of Museums Moving Forward, a research organization devoted to envisioning and creating a more just museum sector by 2030. She was previously a curator at MoMA PS1, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she organized exhibitions including the 2017 Whitney Biennial and Greater New York 2015. She also organized solo exhibitions with artists including Math Bass, Samara Golden, and Ulrike Müller.

Her current projects include an exhibition of works by Cauleen Smith,The Deep West Assembly, at Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, and an exhibition of works by Miranda July, New Society, at the Fondazione Prada, in Milan.

Dr Cliff Lauson is currently Director of Exhibitions at Somerset House, London overseeing the exhibitions and commissions programme. He has personally curated commissions by international artists such as Jitish Kallat, Zheng Bo, Amba Sayal-Bennet and Theresa Weber. Until 2022, Cliff was Senior Curator at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, having organised major exhibitions of work by Matthew Barney, Bridget Riley, Martin Creed, Ernesto Neto, Tracey Emin, and David Shrigley as well as the critically-acclaimed group exhibitions Strange Clay, Light Show and Space Shifters. Independently, he recently curated Rana Begum: Dappled Light at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, which toured internationally. Cliff has held previous positions at Tate Modern and at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver. He currently serves on the steering group for the Artfund Curatorial Diversity Programme, is a former trustee of Film and Video Umbrella, and a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Laura Raicovich is a New York City-based writer and curator. Her recent book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, was published in 2021 by Verso Books. She is also editor and curator of Protodispatch, a digital publication featuring artists’ takes on the local and global conditions that make their work necessary; she initiated the forum with Mari Spirito and Protocinema in 2022. With a collective of artists, musicians, and culture workers, Raicovich opened The Francis Kite Club, a bar/cultural/activist space in NYC’s East Village in 2023. Prior to these projects, Raicovich served as Director of the Queens Museum and Interim Director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; she was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Bellagio Center, and the Tremaine Curatorial Fellow for Journalism at Hyperallergic.