Laura McLean-Ferris is a writer and curator based in Turin, Italy, where she is writing a novel. Her criticism and essays have appeared in Artforum, ArtReview, Bookforum, frieze, and Mousse among other publications and she was the recipient of a 2016 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Her short form collection The Lacustrine was published in 2016. Formerly she was Chief Curator at Swiss Institute, New York where she recently curated the first survey of Rosemary Mayer and co-edited the publications Rosemary Mayer (2023) and The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer (2022).