Lauryn Youden is a Canadian poet, performance and installation artist. Her practice derives from her research and navigation through the medical industrial complex/colonial medicine, ‘alternative’ healing practices, and traditional medicine for the treatment of her chronic illnesses and disabilities. By publicly presenting her personal experiences and queer Crip reevaluations of history, her work illuminates and advocates for repressed, marginalized, and forgotten forms of radical care and Crip knowledge.

Youden has performed and exhibited internationally at institutions including (selection): Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL), Museion Bolzano (IT), Tabakalera, San Sebastián (ES), Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH), Frye Art Museum, Seattle (US), Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis (USA), 11th Berlin Biennale (DE), Manifesta 12, Palermo (IT), Shedhalle, Zurich (CH), Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (DE), Volksbühne Berlin (DE), Migros Museum, Zurich (CH), Kunsthalle Zurich (CH), Pogo Bar – KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien (AT), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin (DE), Rochester Art Center (USA), Emma Kunz Zentrum, Würenlos (CH), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE), and Musik Installationen Nürnberg (DE).

Youden was awarded residencies at E-WERK Luckenwalde in 2023, Rupert, Vilnius (LT), and Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (UK) with Sickness Affinity Group in 2021, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin in 2020. In 2016, Youden was awarded the Berlin Art Prize.