— Photo by Morgan Connellee
Lola Kramer is a curator, writer, and consultant. Working across exhibitions, curatorial research and strategy, and critical writing, she collaborates with artists, estates, foundations, museums, galleries, and publications on projects that shape how contemporary art is presented and interpreted.
Her recent writing includes profiles of the 2026 CHANEL Next Prize winners, commissioned by the CHANEL Culture Fund and Frieze, and an essay on the work of Hannah Levy for the forthcoming Rizzoli volume The Abstract Future: New Abstract Painting and Sculpture.
Her most recent exhibition, Dorothea Rockburne: The Light Shines in the Darkness and The Darkness Has Not Understood It, was presented at Bernheim, London. Spanning seven decades of Rockburne’s career, it was the artist's first historical exhibition in Europe. The exhibition preceded a major acquisition of Rockburne’s work by the Guggenheim Museum and drew coverage by The Guardian, The New York Times, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, and Vogue.
Her curatorial projects include Nancy Holt: Perspectives (2023), an exhibition dedicated to the American artist’s moving-image artworks, in collaboration with artist Rachel Rossin and the Holt/Smithson Foundation and Electronic Arts Intermix; 7 Gardens (2022), the first public art exhibition to unfold across community gardens in the Lower East Side, with public works by artists including Urs Fischer, Robert Gober, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Ivana Bašić; and Lawrence Weiner: A Means of Avoiding Bureaucracy at the Hessel Museum of Art (2017). Her thesis exhibition examined Weiner’s working postcards as both source material and an expression of his commitment to the public circulation of ideas.
After completing her MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2017, Kramer served as Curatorial Director of Wide Rainbow, a contemporary art non-profit connecting contemporary artists with communities with limited access to the arts or arts education. She later worked with Cecilia Alemani on the inaugural Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires (2018) and with Massimiliano Gioni on Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even (2019).
Her interdisciplinary practice extends across contemporary art, publishing, film, and music. She edited the Bastard Cookbook (2019), a collaboration between Rirkrit Tiravanija and Finnish chef Antto Melasniemi, and contributed research on Maryanne Amacher, Pauline Oliveros, Éliane Radigue, and other female pioneers of electronic music to Lisa Rovner’s documentary Sisters with Transistors (2020).
In 2021, Cultured named Kramer one of its “Young Curators to Watch.” Her writing has appeared in monographs and institutional publications including Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You, published by the Columbus Museum of Art; Inès Longevial, published by Rizzoli; and the Whitney Biennial catalogue. She contributes to publications including Artforum, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Basel, Artnet, Interview, CURA, and Kaleidoscope.
