Lauren Moya Ford

Writer and artist

Spain

About

Freelance writer with over 350 published exhibition reviews, book reviews, artist interviews, and essays in print and online. Work featured in Apollo, Art Papers, Artsy, Atlas Obscura, BOMB, CARLA (Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles), Flash Art, Frieze, Glasstire, History Today, Hyperallergic, and Mousse, among others, as well as exhibition catalogs published in Portugal, Spain, and the US. Focused on under-recognized contemporary and modern artists, books, fashion, and creators in the Iberian Peninsula and the American Southwest.

Experience

  • Writer at Hyperallergic
    Feb 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

    "The Mysterious Life of Fluxus Dame Alison Knowles," April 28, 2026 "Juan Uslé's Childhood Shipwrecks," March 30, 2026 "The Disappearing Art of Iberian Democracy," February 24, 2026 "How Joan Miró and America Fell in Love," January 27, 2026 "The Trailblazing Pueblo Potter Who Forged Her Own Path," September 25, 2025 "Unpacking the Ageist Mythos of Western Art," September 21, 2025 "How Liberty Fabrics Weaves Design and Art History," August 19, 2025 "Joe Overstreet's Activism Through Abstraction," June 29, 2025 "Henri Matisse Never Really Left Morocco," June 17, 2025 "A Spanish Artist Makes Room for Women's Stories," May 19, 2025 "An American Artist's Vignettes of Rural Italian Life," March 2, 2025 "A Garden of Ideas in John Berger's Letters to His Son," February 17, 2025 "A Mother-Daughter Inheritance Illustrated in Thread and Ink," November 4, 2024 "An Overdue History of Japanese Women Photographers," October 24, 2024 "Isabella Stewart Gardner's Never-Ending Quest for Beauty," September 22, 2024 "A Japanese Painter's Cosmic Love Letters to Hawaii," May 20, 2024 "Why Did Art History Marginalize Janet Sobel?" May 6, 2024 "Isabel Quintanilla's Dreamy Realism," May 1, 2024 "A Spanish Artist's Dreamy Homages to Her Homeland," April 17, 2024 "Teresa Lanceta Weaves the Fraught History of Spain," April 9, 2024 "Javier Arce's Collaboration With the Spanish Wilderness," March 25, 2024 "A Galician Artist's Return Home," March 20, 2024 "Madrid's Enterprising Heritage Seen Through Its Signs," March 1, 2024 "Prado Show Reveals the Hidden Artworks on the Backs of Masterpieces," February 25, 2024 "Ben Shahn's Ever-Relevant Political Art," February 12, 2024

  • Writer at Glasstire
    Sep 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

    "Book Review: Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac," April 1, 2026 "Book Review: Art Work: On the Creative Life by Sally Mann," March 6, 2026 "Book Review: Alice Baber: An Artist's Triumph Over Tragedy," February 18, 2026 "Book Review: 'Grandma Moses: A Hard Day's Work,'" January 26, 2026 "A Conversation About Ernest de Soto, the First Latino Master Printmaker in the U.S.," January 12, 2026 "Book Preview: Escaramuza by Constance Jaeggi," December 12, 2025 "Book Review: Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris," November 19, 2025 "Book Review: Aaron Parazette," November 11, 2025 "Book Review: Art at the Crossroads: The Surprising Aesthetics of the Texas Panhandle," October 23, 2025 "Book Preview: 'Barnett Newman: Here' by Amy Newman," September 30, 2025 "Interview: Hung Hsien on Her 70-Year Art Career," July 2, 2025 "Book Review: 'Border Documents' by Arturo Soto," June 24, 2025 "Review: Michael Anthony García's 'Radical Synergy' at the Galveston Arts Center," June 2, 2025 "Review: 'Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," May 6, 2025 "Review: 'Ise Katagami & the Art of Textile Design,'" April 27, 2025 "Review: 'The Sun Rises at Midnight' at Pablo Cardoza Gallery, Houston," March 30, 2025 "Review: Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism," January 27, 2025 "Review: 'Dining with Rolando Briseño: A 50-Year Retrospective at Centro de Artes, San Antonio," January 13, 2025

  • Writer at The Art Newspaper
    Mar 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

    "Hundreds of galleries across Spain will strike next week to protest 21% tax on art," January 29, 2026 "Our pick of the shows to see in the world's great art cities in 2026," December 31, 2025 "Prado show lifts the lid on the cases built to protect a French prince's treasures," March 6, 2020

  • Writer at Artsy
    Aug 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

    "New Art Space in Dallas Brings One Family's Impressive Collection to the Public," October 15, 2021 "I'm Obsessed with Diego Velázquez's 'The Triumph of Bacchus,'" October 21, 2020 "The Artist Who Survived Three Concentration Camps and Captured her Trauma in Art," January 17, 2020 "These Quiet Landscape Photos Reveal Spain's Violent, Dark History," August 12, 2019

  • Writer at Southwest Contemporary
    Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

    "Review: Bradley Kerl at Ivester Contemporary," July 30, 2021 (print edition, volume 3) "Review: New Hong Hong Exhibition at Asia Society Texas Center," June 22, 2021