Bio

Lauren Moya Ford is an artist and writer based in Spain. She has exhibited and performed her work at The Menil Collection’s Byzantine Chapel, the University of Texas at Austin's Visual Arts Center, and at other art spaces in Houston, Lisbon, Madrid, Montreal, Philadelphia, Porto, and Tokyo. She uses drawing, ceramics, photography, text, and printmaking to explore themes of memory, the body, and nature.

Ford is also an art writer. Since 2019, more than 300 of her exhibition and book reviews, essays, and interviews have been published in print and online by Apollo, Art Papers, Flash Art, Frieze, Mousse, and others. A regular contributor to Hyperallergic and Glasstire, Ford’s writing focuses on under-recognized contemporary and modern artists with an emphasis on women, people of color, and creators in the Iberian Peninsula and the American Southwest. She has served as a visiting artist, panelist, and lecturer at The University of Texas, Texas State University, Southwestern University, Del Mar College, and the University of Houston.

Learn more about Ford’s work in this 2023 article for Arts and Culture Texas by Nancy Zastudil and in this profile for Glasstire by Barbara Purcell.