Lauren Wetmore

Lauren Wetmore is a Canadian writer, editor, and curator based in Brussels. She is Director of Programs for Momus, co-host/producer of Momus: The Podcast, and is a member of the Board of Directors of rekto:verso magazine. She is co-editor of The Employee, with Joshua Schwebel (Art Metropole, 2025) and has contributed to publications from Lenz Press, Mousse Publishing, and Sternberg Press. As a critic she has been published by frieze, MadaMasr, Spike Arts Quarterly, and C Magazine, among others. Wetmore has held curatorial positions at MUDAM (Luxembourg), the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), Frieze Projects (London), Mophradat (Beirut/Brussels/Cairo), the Barbican Art Gallery (London), The Banff Centre, and she has curated independant projects for the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels) and Fundació AAVC Hangar (Barcelona). Wetmore has received grants and awards from Creative Europe, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Goethe-Institut, and the Flanders Arts Institute.

(photo: Celia Perrin Sidarous)