Lauren Leving (she/her) is an independent curator and writer based in Chicago, IL. Her work explores how creative practice can expand institutionally-rooted understandings of access. She is ACRE Project’s Exhibitions Director and previously was Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (moCa) Cleveland.
In 2023, she co-curated Everlasting Plastics in the U.S. Pavilion during the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, which also traveled to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. At moCa Cleveland, Leving organized numerous projects including Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya’s first solo museum presentation, Skinchangers: Begotten of my Flesh; a largescale textile commission by Aram Han Sifuentes entitled Messages to Authorities (Go Away!); Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Synergy; and Don’t mind if I do, a group exhibition stewarded by Finnegan Shannon.
Leving holds an MA in Museum & Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois–Chicago and a BA from Tulane University. She is an AAMC 2024 Propel Program Fellow and in 2025, will be a Critic/Curator-in-Residence at Art Omi.
