Lucy Cotter’s practice encompasses experimental and art critical writing, curating, and performance to engage with art as a form of knowledge production and a site for cultural and political transformation. Recent curatorial projects include Undoing Language: Early Performance Works by Brian O’ Doherty at The Kitchen, New York (2021), and a year-long program as Curator in Residence at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art (2021-22). She was curator of the Dutch Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale (2017). Internationally published in books, catalogs, and journals including Flash Art, Frieze, and Artforum, she is the author of Reclaiming Artistic Research (2019). Cotter holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. Irish-born, she is currently based in Portland.
