Laura Augusta

Laura Augusta, PhD, is the Jane Dale Owen Director & Chief Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston. Her recent exhibitions include Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue (2024-2026), Presentiments (2024), Adán Vallecillo: Tiempo Libre (2024), Proving the Hypothesis of Celestial Flirtation: Christin Apodaca (2023-2024), Jessica Kairé: Levantamiento (2023), Laura Turón: Immersive Abstractions (2023), Here, And the Wind (2023), Sam Reveles: Solastalgia (2022), On Porous Edges & Radical Decay (2021, online), Touch Over Fear (2021, online), Stone’s Throw: Arte de Sanación, Arte de Resistencia (2020), To Weave Blue: Poema al Tejido (2020), and To Look at the Sea is to Become What One Is (2019), among others. Her work has been awarded Fellowships from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Core Critical Studies Program at the MFAH, and Yale University, among others, and her essays have been widely published internationally, in English and Spanish. She has actively published arts criticism in Texas since 2005. From 2016-2020, Laura ran a domestic project space, Yvonne, in her apartment in downtown Guatemala City. Laura’s curatorial/essay projects connect the landscapes of disaster-prone places, thinking specifically about storms and muddiness, shared space, and everyday forms of embodied ongoingness.