Lauren Rosati

Lauren Rosati is an Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Projects at The Met include Lorna Simpson: Source Notes (2025), The Roof Garden Commission - Jennie C. Jones: Ensemble (2025), The Great Hall Commission - Jacolby Satterwhite: A Metta Prayer (2023) and Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra (2019). Prior to joining The Met in 2018, she held curatorial positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Academy Museum, and Exit Art. She worked on the team for the exhibition Louise Lawler: Why Pictures Now (2014) at MoMA and co-organized Open Plan: Cecil Taylor at the Whitney (2016). Her writing and criticism have appeared in books, edited volumes, exhibition catalogues, magazines (Art in America, Artforum, Brooklyn Rail, Frieze), peer-reviewed journals (The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, the Journal of Curatorial Studies, Leonardo), and online. She has lectured, organized conferences, and taught internationally on art, media, curatorial practice, and performance. Rosati holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York, Graduate Center.