Lisa Slominski is an American writer, curator and researcher. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London. Centred around her long-term engagement with Nnena Kalu and ActionSpace, her research project A Liminal Site: Cultural intermediaries, agency, identity and representation examines how artistic agency is fostered and mediated within supported studio contexts, with particular attention to non-normative communication, facilitation, and the representation of learning disabled artists. Drawing on disability, feminist, and decolonial thought, the project develops a liminal curatorial and critical methodology attentive to cultural intermediation and relational agency. 

Slominski’s wider curatorial and writing practice engages with questions of access, care, and positionality across exhibition-making and visual culture. Recent projects include Super Trouper at Stanley Picker Gallery (2026), James Paddock: Life Could Be Done So Much Better, Exeter Phoenix (2024), curatorial work with Jo Longhurst at Studio Voltaire (2023) and chair of the symposium Curating and Coalition: Challenging and Expanding the Art World in the Wake of Nnena Kalu's Turner Prize Win (2026). 

Her writing has appeared in Art Monthly and other contemporary art publications. Her book, Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists (Yale University Press, 2022), presents an international history of artists often identified as ‘self-taught’, advocating for a nuanced understanding of art often challenged by the establishment. It considers how predetermined personal/cultural conditions (race, poverty, disability, mental illness) often presented challenging positions much more complex than just being self-taught

She holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Art Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London. Lisa is a Senior Art Producer at the Contemporary Art Society, co-founder of Art et al. and the co-editor, with Amanda Cachia, of Manchester University Press’ forthcoming series Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access.