Laura Whitcomb is a curator, writer, and fashion designer whose interdisciplinary career spans contemporary art, fashion, music, and cultural history, with a particular focus on the influence of Surrealism, hermetic traditions, and experimental culture in California.

Beginning her career in the late 1980s, she wrote for publications such as Blitz and contributed to the underground anthology Apocalypse Culture, while also organizing early curatorial projects that connected fashion and contemporary art. She later founded the clothing line and gallery space Label in New York’s SoHo (1990s–2010), where exhibitions and fashion collections engaged shared conceptual themes. Whitcomb has since developed a body of scholarly research and exhibitions examining the intersections of art, occult philosophy, experimental music, and California avant-garde movements, including work as a resident scholar at the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation in Figueres. Through exhibitions, publications, and archival research—including projects on the Light and Space movement, artist- and poet-run galleries in the Bay Area, the Dilexi Gallery, and the channeler-artist Paulina Peavy—her work traces how émigré Surrealists, alternative art spaces, and experimental composers helped shape postwar California art and its broader cultural networks.