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Layla Curtis (born 1975) is a British artist based in London. She is known for her collaged map works which are included in the Tate Collection and the Government Art Collection. In recent work she appropriates technologies such as geo-fencing, thermal imaging cameras and GPS to create drawings and trace journeys.

Biography
Curtis received her BA from Edinburgh College of Art in 1998 and her MA from Chelsea College of Art in 2000.

Her work was included in New Contemporaries in 1999 and shortly afterwards was purchased by the Tate. Her first UK solo exhibition was at Milton Keynes Gallery in 2000. She has since has solo exhibitions at Spacex, Exeter; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast and New Art Gallery Walsall. Group exhibitions include those at Tate Modern, London; Pavilhão Lucas Nogueira Garcez-Oca, São Paulo, Brazil; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, France; and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Canada.

Curtis was awarded the Great North Run Moving Image Commission in 2014 and created Heatscapes, a series of films exhibited in her solo exhibition at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. Her iphone app Trespass, was launched following a research residency with Lancaster based StoreyG2 and discussed by Bradley Garrett in his article about Freeman's Wood and landownership for Guardian Cities.

In 2010 she travelled to the Borneo rainforest to live with nomadic hunter-gatherers and made her immersive video and sound work Tong Tana, which was subsequently exhibited in Revolver at Matt’s Gallery, London with Juneau Projects and Andrew Kötting and later in her solo exhibition at Spacex, Exeter. She was awarded an Arts Council England International Fellowship to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey in 2005. Her Antarctic work Polar Wandering was included in solo exhibitions at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, New Art Gallery Walsall and Gimpel Fils, London.