Writer, curator & educator, with a concern for public space and intergenerational practices of care and play, Lillian Davies recently founded Playgrounds Press as a space for creative conversation. Working with visual artists, we explore pluralities of form and practice inside the space of pocket-sized books and postcards. Lillian Davies contributes to apartmento, Artforum, Art in America, Camera Austria, and Interview.

Curator of Elene Shatberashvili's “Crimson” at Chapel Sainte Croix, Angles-sur-l’Anglin (2025), "Paintings and Drawings" at Villa Atrata (2024) and "Playgrounds" at Cometa (2023), Paris and guest lecturer at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Ecole W (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas); and Parsons Paris, Lillian holds a professorship at Paris College of Art and teaches at Sciences Po.

With a BA in Art History and Comparative Religions from Columbia University, a Masters in Curating Contemporary Art from Royal College of Art, Lillian conducted Doctoral research in a Troisième Cycle at the Ecole du Louvre, presenting her work at conferences hosted by EHESS, Université de Genève and Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne.

Lillian's poetry and creative writing appears in Cambridge Poetry, maintenant, The Opiate, Quail Bell Magazine and Verse of April. Lillian is a recipient of AICA France’s Bourse Ekphrasis and finalist for The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.