Mia Locks

2024 Summer Series Speaker

Mia Locks is an independent curator and Executive Director of Museums Moving Forward, a research organization devoted to envisioning and creating a more just museum sector by 2030. She was previously a curator at MoMA PS1, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she organized exhibitions including the 2017 Whitney Biennial and Greater New York 2015. She also organized solo exhibitions with artists including Math Bass, Samara Golden, and Ulrike Müller.

Her current projects include an exhibition of works by Miranda July, opening in March 2024 at the Fondazione Prada, Milan; and an exhibition of works by Cauleen Smith, opening in June 2024 at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo.