Laura August

Laura August is Curator at The Rubin Center at The University of Texas at El Paso. From 2016-2022, she worked as an independent curator and arts writer between the U.S. and Central America. Her writing about contemporary art in Guatemala City received The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and she was a Core Critical Studies Fellow at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2016-2018), where she curated the exhibitions Una piedra y la lluvia (Lawndale, 2017), Tell it to the Horses (MFAH offsite at Bermac Arts, 2018), and In Case of Natural Disaster (Harrisburg Studios, 2018). Her 2019-2020 exhibitions include citysinging (Lawndale, Houston, TX), To look at the sea is to become what one is (Radiator Arts, NYC), Stone’s Throw (The Anderson, Richmond, VA), and To Weave Blue: Poema al tejido, the first exhibition in the U.S. to center contemporary art and conceptual practice by Maya artists (University of Memphis, TN). In 2021, she was an inaugural Mellon Arts + Practitioner Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. She holds a PhD in Art History from The University of Texas at Austin.