Laura
McLean is a curator, researcher, and artist. Holding an
MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, and a BVA and MVA from Sydney College
of the Arts, where she has also lectured. McLean also studied at the Alberta
College of Art and Design and the Universität der Künste Berlin. Past
residencies include: Slakthusateljéerna
studios, Stockholm, 2014; ‘On
Critical Tourism, Site-specificity and Post-romantic Condition’, Nida
Art Colony, Lithuania, 2013; ‘Other
Possible Worlds: Proposals On This Side Of Utopia’, Casino Luxembourg Forum
d’art Contemporain, 2011; and ‘Expo-Exoskeleton’, Porosity
Studios / COFA, Shanghai, 2010. Past curatorial projects include: Contingent Movements
Archive, 2013–2014; Crisis Complex, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, 2012; and Survey, 2010. In 2013, she was assistant curator of the inaugural Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice. McLean lives and works in Sydney. [Last updated 2016]