— Photo by Morgan Connellee
Lola Kramer is a curator, writer, and editor based in New York City. She is known for her essays, profiles, and interviews with pioneers of creative disciplines.
Her latest exhibition focuses on the boundary-breaking contributions of the American artist Dorothea Rockburne, presenting a selection of work spanning 50 years and opening in November 2024 at Bernheim, London. Before this, she was the curator of Nancy Holt: Perspectives, an exhibition dedicated to the legendary American artist’s moving-image artworks, presented at the artist-run project space, Dunkunsthalle, and in collaboration with the Holt/Smithson Foundation and Electronic Arts Intermix.
In 2022, she organized 7 Gardens, a public art exhibition throughout the community gardens in the Lower East Side, conceived as a journey connecting local community space to the practices of established and emerging artists working to represent ideas of nature and community engagement. After completing her MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2017, she was Curatorial Director of Wide Rainbow, a contemporary art after-school program connecting contemporary artists with the community, primarily in under-resourced neighborhoods with limited or no access to the arts or arts education.
She was selected by Cultured magazine as one of “Young Curators to Watch” and is recognized as a leading expert and advocate for the next generation of artists and change-makers. In 2019, she was the editor of the Bastard Cookbook, a collection of hybridized recipes by Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija and Finnish chef Antto Melasniemi, co-published by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and Garrett Publications. She has written for monographs like Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You, published by the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, and institutional publications like the Whitney Biennial Catalogue. She contributes to international journals like Artforum, Frieze, Art Basel, Interview, CURA, Kaleidoscope, and Apartamento, among others. Her research appeared in the documentary film Sisters with Transistors, a new history mapping the visionary women whose radical experiments with machines redefined the boundaries of music.
