Art historian and writer, Lillian Davies contributes to Artforum, Art in America, Camera Austria, Interview, Numéro and Objektiv. Together with artist Chloe Briggs, Lillian published Playgrounds (Drawings is Free Press, 2023) and continues to build research on creative engagement with this public space. Founder of Playgrounds Press, she published Portraits with artist Rebecca Dolinsky, Collages with artist Lauren Coullard, and Glossaries with artist Elene Shatberashvili as the start of a series exploring possibilities of a form through image, text and conversation. 

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 is Assistant Professor at Paris College of Art and Sciences Po.

Lillian earned a BA in Art History and Comparative Religions from Columbia University, a Masters in Curating Contemporary Art from Royal College of Art, and conducted Doctoral research in a Troisième Cycle at the Ecole du Louvre, presenting her work on modern and contemporary art in the Arab and Muslim worlds and their diasporas 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.