LAUREN A. BIERLY is an arts professional and artist living and working in New York City. She is Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). Recent productions include Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology; Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion; and upcoming monographic exhibition Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between. Prior to The Met, Bierly produced twenty-two independently curated exhibitions and artist-projects, coordinated more than ninety exhibition-related events and activities, and co-directed an annual artist/administrator residency through four seasons. She’s worked with The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York), Trestle Gallery/Brooklyn Art Space (Brooklyn, NY), Christie’s (New York), The Museum of Arts & Design (New York), EYEBEAM: Art & Technology Center (Brooklyn, NY), among other organizations.
She has guest lectured in professional practice courses at Pratt Institute’s School of Art & Design (Brooklyn, NY), and participated on panels with Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) (New York); Christie's Education (New York); Emergent Art Space (San Francisco, CA); and Feldenheimer Gallery (Portland, OR).
Bierly holds an M.A. in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education, New York (2010), and a Bachelor of Architecture and Minor in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University (2009). Bierly has shown her artwork in New York City; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; and Kolkata, India.
Photograph by Matthew Vicari.
She has guest lectured in professional practice courses at Pratt Institute’s School of Art & Design (Brooklyn, NY), and participated on panels with Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) (New York); Christie's Education (New York); Emergent Art Space (San Francisco, CA); and Feldenheimer Gallery (Portland, OR).
Bierly holds an M.A. in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education, New York (2010), and a Bachelor of Architecture and Minor in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University (2009). Bierly has shown her artwork in New York City; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; and Kolkata, India.
Photograph by Matthew Vicari.
