Audrey N. Lopez, PhD
Audrey N. Lopez, Ph.D. is a curator, researcher, writer, and connector working at the intersection of public art + installation and spatial + aesthetic justice across New England and Southern California. Grounded in participatory, decolonial approaches to public space, Lopez’s curatorial practice works to strengthen communities’ relationships to public land and ecologies through art that inspires sustained civic engagement and creative collective action.
Her curatorial work has been featured in Artforum, ARTnews, ArchDaily, designboom, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, KCRW, The Boston Globe, WBUR, and Boston Art Review. Lopez earned her doctorate from the University of California Santa Barbara and has taught courses on activism and public art at UCSB and RISD. A multiracial Filipina American woman raised in a rural area of Maryland, Lopez is most at home working at unexpected borderlands of all kinds.