Laura Allred Hurtado

Laura Allred Hurtado is the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. As a director, curator, and writer, her practice explores issues of gender, belief, identity, and the local. She is the author of numerous texts including the most recent Actual Source publication, A 15 Year Expanse (2020); UMOCA Press, Baggage: Alex Caldiero: In Retrospect (2021); and the forthcoming Oxford University Press, Object/Belief (2025). She has curated exhibitions in New York City and throughout Utah, most recently a retrospective of the Guerrilla Girls (2020) as well as a collaborative exhibition with For Freedoms artist collective (2022).