Art historian and author of multidisciplinary artist mounir fatmi’s first 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. Her talk at L'AiR Arts at Atelier 11 on Niki de Saint Phalle’s playgrounds was part of the 2025 "Printemps du Dessin" program. Her latest publication, Glossaries with artist Elene Shatberashvili, continues a series, including Collages with artist Lauren Coullard (available at Librairie Yvon Lambert), and Portraits with artist Rebecca Dolinsky (soon available at Made Anywhere), that explores the possibilities of a form through image, text and conversation. 

Curator of Elene Shatberashvili's "Paintings and Drawings" at Villa Atrata (2024) and "Playgrounds" at Cometa (2023), Paris , Lillian is an advisor for the artists' residency L’AiR Arts and Atelier 11 at Cité Falguière. 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, and Quail Bell Magazine. Lillian is a recipient of AICA France’s Bourse Ekphrasis.