Theodore Lau (he/they) is an Asian American curator and writer based in New York, born and raised in the Bay Area. His interests include enmeshed modes of knowledge production that deal with the complexities of trans-pacific life, film & video, performance, exhibitionary & institutional histories, brownness & queerness, affect, critical mixed-race studies, and failure. They currently work in the Film Department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and serve on the curatorial team for Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has held positions at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, KADIST Art Foundation, Brown University, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. They graduated with honors from Brown University in December 2019