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        Laura McLean

        curator and researcher, Sydney

      2. 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]


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