Carey Lovelace is a writer, critic, curator, activist, theatre-maker, and producer, who originally trained as a composer of avant-garde music.
Active in social causes, she is the Founder of Visions2030, a cross-disciplinary collective platform, harnessing the artistic imagination to create new models of society, creating future-oriented gatherings with an international focus. She received a Visionary Pathmakers Award from The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
As curator, she was Co-Commissioner of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, featuring Sarah Sze, among other exhibitions. She has written on contemporary visual art for publications including Artforum, Art in America, and The New York Times. From 2003-7, she was Co-President of the AICA/USA, the nation’s largest organization of art critics.
As a playwright, she has had over 50 performances of her plays at venues including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre, and REDCAT in Los Angeles. She is a member of the BMI Librettists workshop and the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors workshop. Lovelace is Executive Creative Director of New York-based Loose Change Productions, dedicated to transnational, transcultural productions.
A a 2010 Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy of Rome, she has a BFA in ethnomusicology and composition from Cal Arts, an MA in journalism from NYU, and an MFA in playwrighting from the Actors Studio/New School, studying music composition under James Tenney at California Institute of the Arts and Iannis Xenakis at the University de Paris 1; cultural reporting under Margo Jefferson at NYU; playwrighting under Curt Dempster at Ensemble Studio Theatre – among others!