Lois Taylor Biggs

I’m a writer, curator, and art historian based in Chicago.

Over the years I’ve written on the aesthetics and politics of the Alcatraz Occupation, desire and repair in contemporary Indigenous art, and Robert Houle (Saulteaux First Nation)’s 2010 installation Paris/Ojibwa as a model for art historical practice. I recently curated Gagzhibaahiwan, a 2024 exhibition on paradox in Anishinaabe art, and have published art writing in Frieze, Forging, Momus, and C Magazine. I’m a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and of White Earth Ojibwe and Jewish descent.

Currently, I’m the Rice Curatorial Fellow in Native American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. I was formerly Assistant Curator and Terra Foundation Curatorial Research Fellow at the Block Museum, and Curator-in-Residence at Center for Native Futures. I received a BA in Art History and Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University in 2020, and a Fulbright-funded MA in Social History of Art from the University of Leeds in 2021.