Art historian and author of multidisciplinary artist mounir fatmi’s monograph (Suspect Language, Skira, Flammarion), Lillian Davies writes for Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, 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 through interviews and public workshops. Founder of Playgrounds Press, she published Portraits with artist Rebecca Dolinsky, Collages with artist Lauren Coullard, and Glossaries with artist Elene Shatberashvili as part of a series that explores the possibilities of a form through image, text and conversation. 

Curator of Elene Shatberashvili's “Crimson” at Chapel Sainte Croix, Angles-sur-l’Anglin, "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.