Lauren Leving

Lauren Leving is a curator and writer based in Chicago, IL. Her work explores how creative practice can expand institutionally rooted understandings of access. She is ACRE's Exhibitions Director (Chicago, IL) and Associate Curator for the 225 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art (Costa Mesa, CA). Previously, she served as Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (moCa) Cleveland (OH). Leving was co-curator of Everlasting Plastics in the US Pavilion during the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, which traveled to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. While at moCa Cleveland, Leving organized numerous projects including a large scale textile commission by Aram Han Sifuentes entitled Messages to Authorities (Go Away!), Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Synergy, and Don't mind if I do, a group exhibition stewarded by Finnegan Shannon. Leving holds an MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois Chicago and a BA from Tulane University (New Orleans, LA). She was an AAMC 2024 Propel Program Fellow and a 2025 Critic/Curator-in-Residence at Art Omi.