Lois Taylor Biggs is an emerging writer, curator, and art historian of Oklahoma Cherokee, White Earth Ojibwe, and white
settler descent. She resides on Council of Three Fires homelands
in Chicago, IL. Lois is currently the Terra Foundation Curatorial Research Fellow at Northwestern University’s
Block Museum of Art, where she is part of a curatorial team
developing an exhibition focused on the Indigenous art history of Chicago. She holds a BA in Comparative Literary
Studies and Art History from Northwestern University, where
she served as a student leader within the Northwestern University Native American and Indigenous Alliance, and a
Fulbright-funded MA in Social History of Art from the University
of Leeds, where she wrote a dissertation on Anishinaabe
art history as expressed within Robert Houle’s 2010 installation
Paris/Ojibwa. Her research interests include archival studies,
Indigenous curatorial practice, and Indigenous art-historical
methodology. She has published writings on the visual and literary culture of the Alcatraz Occupation in the Columbia University Journal of Politics and Society and presented archival artwork as part of the 2021 Leeds Creative Labs cohort.