Lauren Rosati

Lauren Rosati is Associate Curator in the Department of Modern & Contemporary Art and Research Projects Manager in the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 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. Recent projects include the co-curated exhibitions The Great Hall Commission - Jacolby Satterwhite: A Metta Prayer (2023) at The Met and Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra (2019) at The Met Breuer, as well as large-scale programs devoted to early modern cinema (The Met, 2022), John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem (Red Bull Arts, 2017), Albert Savinio’s 1914 noise opera "Les chants de la mi-mort" (Issue Project Room, 2018), the 50th anniversary of Experiments in Art and Technology (Issue Project Room, 2016), and recent developments in sound, software, digital media and interactive design (New York University, 2016). Her writing and criticism on art, sound, media, performance, and technology has appeared in edited volumes; exhibition catalogues; peer-reviewed journals (The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, Leonardo); magazines (Art in America); and online. Rosati also co-edited Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960–2010 with Mary Anne Staniszewski (The MIT Press, 2012). She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York, Graduate Center.