Monumental Washington

Laura Roulet is an independent curator and writer, specializing in contemporary and Latin American art. She was one of five international curators chosen for the initial 5×5, a major public art initiative in Washington DC. She organized the 60th anniversary exhibition for the Washington Print Club at the Kreeger Museum, “The DMV Collects the DMV.” Other recent exhibitions include “The Human Flood,” “Landscape in an Eroded Field,” and “Foon Sham: Escape” (American University Museum, Katzen Center); “A Dark and Scandalous Rockfall” (Mexican Cultural Institute); and “Brian Michael Reed, In the Crosscurrent” (Huntington Museum of Art, WV). International exhibits include the OAS Art Museum of the Americas as well as exhibits in Mexico City and Puerto Rico.  She was a mentoring curator at the D.C. Arts Center and the first mentoring curator at VisArts in Rockville, MD. She is a regular contributor to Sculpture magazine. Her catalogue essay “Aglutinación: The Collective Spirit of Puerto Rican Art” is included in Relational Undercurrents, Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. Her other publications include many catalogue essays, articles in American Art, Art Journal, and Art Nexus, and the book Contemporary Puerto Rican Installation Art: the Guagua Aerea, the Trojan Horse and the Termite. She worked on the Ana Mendieta retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2004, and contributed to that catalogue.