Lucy Steeds

Lucy Steeds is a writer and teacher based at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her research centres on art in its public moment, historically and around the world, where this challenges norms in ways that are useful to reflect on here and today. She is a series editor for the Exhibition Histories books published by Afterall, University of the Arts London, in association with: Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; documenta Institut, Kassel; and the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg. Her co-edited books include: Art and its Worlds (2021), Curating After the Global (2019), How Institutions Think (2017) and The Curatorial Conundrum (2016). She is responsible for Exhibition in the Documents of Contemporary Art series (2014).