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 Corpus Christi, Houston, Galveston, Lisbon, Madrid, Montreal, Philadelphia, and Tokyo. Her exhibition Cisne opened at Kubik Gallery in Porto, Portugal in January of 2024, and her two-person show The Source at Northern-Southern Gallery in Austin, Texas was reviewed by Caroline Frost in Glasstire in the fall of 2023. Her work – which spans drawing, ceramics, photography, text, and printmaking – explores her ongoing relationship to 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, Glasstire, Mousse, and others. A regular contributor to Hyperallergic, 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. In 2023, she was named Austin’s favorite art writer in the Concept Animals Community Favorites poll.

Ford’s art writing has appeared in monographs and exhibition catalogs published in the US, Spain, and Portugal, including Kevin McNamee Tweed: Ceramic Paintings (Steve Turner Gallery, 2020) and Wily: Unha técnica salvaxe (Concello de Lalín, 2016). She presented her research on the woodcut printmaker Naoko Matsubara at a symposium at Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum in 2019, and in 2021, Ford was named a finalist for the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. In 2024, her research on the Spanish artist Wily (Antonio Taboada Ferradás) was featured in La Voz de Galicia and El Faro de Vigo.

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