About

Laura
Raicovich

Laura Raicovich is a curator and writer. She is the recipient of the inaugural Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators at Hyperallergic, and is currently working on a book about museums, cultural institutions, and the myth of neutrality (forthcoming 2020). Her interest lies in artistic production that aims to create a more engaged civic realm through poetics and care. As President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum, New York (2015–2018), Raicovich collaborated on exhibitions such as Mel Chin: All Over the Place, 2018; Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art, 2017; and William Gropper: Bearing Witness, 2015. She also lectures internationally and has organized numerous lectures and programs, including Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies into the Darkness, a series of public seminars in collaboration with Carin Kuoni at the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, 2018–2019. Raicovich lives and works in New York.