Laura Raicovich, one of the 6 participants at the discussion entitled ‘Red Discussion 2’ by Nada Prlja, part of the inauguration of The National Pavilion of Republic of North Macedonia.
Venice, Italy, 08.05.2019 – save the date.
Laura Raicovich is a writer and art worker dedicated to art and artistic production that relies on complexity, poetics, and care to create a more thoughtful and equitable civic realm. Until recently, she served as President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum where she oversaw an inviting and vital commons for art, ideas, and engagement. In 2018, she co-curated Mel Chin: All Over the Place (with Manon Slome and No Longer Empty), the first major presentation in New York City of artist Mel Chin in more than 20 years, which occupied the entire Queens Museum and multiple public sites in the city. She is currently working on a new book to be published in 2020 on the myth of neutrality in museums and cultural institutions.
Prior to Queens Museum, Raicovich inaugurated Creative Time’s Global Initiatives, including the launch of the acclaimed artist-driven media website, Creative Time Reports, and worked for a decade at Dia Art Foundation, where she served as deputy director. Prior to that, she worked at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Public Art Fund, and New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation. Raicovich lectures internationally and has published a number of books including as co-editor (with Carin Kuoni and Kareem Estefan) “Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production” (OR Books/Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2017); and as author of “At the Lightning Field” (Coffee House Press, 2017) and “A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties” (Publication Studio, 2014). She graduated from Swarthmore College and holds a Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
