Laurel V. McLaughlin (she/her/hers) is a writer, curator, and art historian based in New Haven, CT and Boston, MA. She is a curator and director of the Collective Futures Fund at the Tufts University Art Galleries. McLaughlin completed an MA at The Courtauld Institute and her doctorate at Bryn Mawr College, writing a dissertation concerning performative migratory aesthetics, 1970–2018. She has published her work in Art Papers, ASAP/J, BOMB Magazine, C Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Contact Quarterly, Performance Research, te magazine, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, and recently published a co-edited volume with Carrie Robbins entitled Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production (Amherst College Press, 2024). She has organized exhibitions, performances, and symposia concerning border politics, migratory aesthetics, and queer object relations.
