Laura Barlow

Laura Barlow is Curator at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Her work is focused on artists’ invention of new forms and visual languages in relation to global histories of socio-political change. Recently curated exhibitions at Mathaf include Hana Al Saadi: Proposal for Public Sculpture (2018); Mohammed Melehi: 1959- 1971(2017);Basim Magdy: It All Started With a Map and a Picture of Scattered Little Houses(2017); Hassan Sharif: Objects and Files (2016); and Saloua Raouda Choucair: The Meaning of One, The Meaning of the Multiple (2015); Wael Shawky: Crusades and Other Stories, (2015), as assistant curator; and Manal AlDowayan: Crash, (2014). At e-flux, New York, between 2010-2014, she organized exhibitions with Mariana Silva & Pedro Neves Marques, Khalil Rabah, Rossella Biscotti, and Hito Steyerl, and was managing editor of Art Agenda reviews from 2010-2012. She is a PhD candidate at the BauhausUniversität Weimar Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and Planning. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from CCS, Bard, USA, and a BA in History from Swansea University, Wales. 

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Program Highlights | 2018 MoMA International Curatorial Institute Convenes Curators of Modern and Contemporary Art

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