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Lexington Davis (she/her) is a writer, curator, and art historian whose work explores feminist art and activism from the 1960s to the present, artistic critiques of the capitalist state, and experimental practices. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Previously, she worked as a lecturer at Leiden University’s Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) and has held fellowships and curatorial positions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; the New Museum, NY; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions at the Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews; apexart, NY; the Neue Galerie, Innsbruck; the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest; and the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Getty Research Journal, Feminist Media Histories, Sculpture Journal, Burlington Contemporary, Metropolis M, Flash Art, and exhibition catalogues from the New Museum, NY and SITE Santa Fe. Her research and curatorial work has been supported by a Fulbright fellowship, Het Cultuurfonds, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Yale Center for British Art, the Paul Mellon Centre, PARALLEL – European Photo Based Platform, and the Association for Art History. She recently completed her PhD at the University of St Andrews, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.