Laura Fried

Director and Co-Founder

Laura Fried is a Los Angeles-based curator and is a co-founder and Director of Active Cultures. Throughout her career, Fried has advocated for artists and institutions while pushing forward new models for engagement and exhibition making. She was the founding Artistic Director of the Seattle Art Fair, for which she organized a comprehensive program of large-scale installations, performances, talks, and projects. Fried was previously on the curatorial staff of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, as well as a curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Fried received her MA in the History of Art from Williams College and the Clark Art Institute.