Laura López Paniagua is an art history professor, writer, and independent curator based in Madrid. She has curated exhibitions at La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin; and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, and has taught courses, lectures, and master classes at institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Bard College, New York; and Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.
In 2015, she earned her PhD in Art History III from the UCM – Freie Universität, and published the monograph Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions (Mousse Publishing, 2015), which has just released its second edition. She has worked as a researcher and writer for La Biennale di Venezia and Tate Modern, London, and has published articles in Mousse Magazine and DARDO.