Laura Lupton is an art and climate consultant and solution generator.
With over a decade of experience working directly with some of contemporary art’s leading artist studios, non-profit institutions, museums, and galleries to produce large scale projects, Laura has a robust inside knowledge of what it takes to catalyze action within a team. Believing that art is a climate solution, her work focuses on engagement, action led by people on the ground, and imagining resilience as core to climate strategy. This approach has led climate action projects developed for clients like the ADAA, MOCA, the Getty Museum, and Hauser & Wirth.
Projects Laura has been part of have been presented at Creative Time, the Schaulager, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Venice Biennial, Tate Modern, the Standard Hotel, and The Shed, among others. She is a co-founder of several collaborative ventures at the intersection of art and climate: Galleries Commit, Artists Commit, Barder, and the Visual Arts PACT and is on the Founding Committee of the Gallery Climate Coalition New York chapter. She holds a degree in History and Critical Theory from Wesleyan University and is earning a Graduate Certificate in Corporate Sustainability and Innovation at Harvard ES.
Contact: support@climateconsulting.art
Panels/Talks:
EXPO Chicago Dialogues | Practices of Conservation — Exhibition and Environmental Impact | Alternate Assembly, January 22, 2021
Art / Switch | Environmentally-Conscious Exhibition Planning in the Art Market | [re]Shaping Exhibition Practices, January 29, 2021
NYU Steinhardt | Impact of Climate Change on the Art Market | Visual Arts Administration Colloquium, February 19, 2021
Art Institute of Chicago | Art and Climate Crisis | Earth Day 2021 Virtual Conversations, April 23, 2021
ArtBO | Responsabilidad climática en las artes | Semana ARTBO, October 2, 2021
ADA | Art and the Environment with Rafael Hernández Martínez (Reina Sofia Museum's Head of Sustainability), Kate MacGarry, and Daniel Canogar | March 8, 2022
Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries | Art, Collections, and the Environment | March 16, 2022
POWarts | Sustainability in the Art World | May 13, 2022
AAMG | 2022 Annual Conference - Exhibitions as a Catalyst for Action | June 16, 2022
Getty | Exhibition Making, Sustainability, and Climate Justice | July 13, 2022
Sustainability in Action | A day of industry collaboration, dialogue, and knowledge sharing organized by Hauser & Wirth | July 15, 2022
POWarts | Women Leading Climate Action in the Visual Arts | December 8, 2022
Responsible Art Market | Hot Topics for Art Businesses in 2023: Sustainability | March 2, 2023
National Museum of Women in the Arts | ART IMPACTS: Moving Towards a Sustainable Future | March 21, 2023
The Art Business Conference | Sustainability and the artworld | April 26, 2023
Sustainability in Action | Hauser & Wirth | November 3, 2023
Press:
The Art Newspaper | Can Biden's inauguration galvanise the US art world into finally taking action against climate change? | January 22, 2021
The Art Newspaper | Launch of Artists Commit intensifies the push to act on climate change | April 22, 2021
The Online Gallery: Pioneers Issue | Committing to the Possible | December 2021
The Art Newspaper | Exhibitions’ carbon footprints come under growing scrutiny | January 14, 2022
The Art Newspaper | New resource-sharing website seeks to cut art industry waste and give new life to reusable materials | March 1, 2022
The Art Newspaper | Art world organisations, galleries and artists helped fund conservation of a Peruvian cloud forest | April 12, 2022
The Art Newspaper | Is the Art Show the first green fair? | April 2023 print edition
The Art Newspaper | 'New York is so influential in our industry': the Gallery Climate Coalition sees its newest chapter as essential | May 30, 2023
Ocula | Getty Announces Climate Plan for PST ART Exhibitions | 24 April 2024