Laura Anderson Barbata

Laura Anderson Barbata is a transdisciplinary artist born in Mexico City who lives and works between New York and Mexico City. Since the early 1990s, her practice has centred on socially engaged, community-based projects developed in collaboration with diverse communities across the Americas and Europe. Her work explores themes of transcommunality, social justice, cultural memory, and collective action.

Her work is held in major public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City), MUAC, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Widely published and awarded, she has received honors such as the Anonymous Was a Woman Award and a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. She currently teaches in MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology programme and serves on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association.