A.E. Chapman is an independent curator, writer, teaching artist, and facilitator based in New York City. She received her MA in Art History and an Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies from Hunter College where she was awarded the Edna Wells Luetz/Frederick P. Riedel Scholarship to support her masters studies based on her excellence in significant post-baccalaureate undergraduate coursework at Hunter in studio art and art history. Her masters coursework focused on modern and contemporary art within transnational networks and the Americas. She holds an undergraduate degree in Journalism with a Photojournalism Emphasis and a minor in Sociology from the University of Georgia.

Abbas A Malakar is a curator and artist born in Kolkata, India. His practice spans public media, social practices, and storytelling. From cooking to collective zine-making, his practice is deeply rooted in the everyday need for communal gatherings and hopeful of universal empathy and generosity. His undergraduate degree (BFA) was completed in Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University (India) in Art History and studio practices in ceramics, textile design, sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Subsequently he has pursued an MA in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His primary focus now is exhibition making and essay writing. He has been involved in various capacities with SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin, Germany), the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studios (New York), Arthshila Santiniketan (India), Emami KCC (India), and presented with Praksis Oslo (Norway), Indie Comix Fest (Mumbai, India), Gaysi Zine Bazaar (Mumbai, India), Emami KCC, Arthshila Santiniketan, and Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University.

Aidan Chisholm is a writer and curator based in New York City. She focuses on contemporary art, with a particular interest in image-based practices, performance, and installation. Originally from California, she holds a M.A. from Columbia University, where her research concerned evolving practices of self-representation.

Alex Feim is a contemporary art researcher, writer, and curator based in Brooklyn. Her research, writing, and curatorial work focuses on intersections between art and architecture, exhibition context and phenomenology, time-based media, and experimental cartographic practice. Her writing has been published in Art Spiel, Art Press, Battery Journal, and New York Review of Architecture.

Alex Schmidt (b. Chicago, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is an artist and educator. They are hosting Queer Speed Cruising at White Columns on December 6 (4-6 pm). Read about their practice in Face to Face: October 2025.

Alex Wexelman writes criticism, fiction, and poetry.

Alex Jhamb Burns is an arts and culture writer, audio producer, and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing also appears in Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, and The Brooklyn Rail.

Alice Wolfe is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon. She writes about art, culture, food, and mental health, all through a decolonial, intersectional feminist lens.

Aliya Nimmons is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and arts administrator based in New York City. She has worked with organizations such as Pioneer Works, Hank WIllis Thomas Studio, and The New York Times. Her work explores themes grounded in identity, empowerment, and culture. She holds a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute.

Almog Cohen-Kashi is an art critic, historian, and theorist currently pursuing her PhD in art history at Stony Brook University. Recently, she contributed entries to the Benezit Dictionary of Artists (Oxford University Press). Instagram: @_alm0g_

Alyssa Monte is a New York-based artist and writer. Her personal work focuses on landscape and memory, focusing on the way text and image create conversations and inform each other. Alyssa holds a BFA in Photography and Journalism, and currently specializes in editorial content, social media, and marketing, fascinated by the ability to tell impactful stories and build community in the digital space.

Amanda SRGE_Lindsay is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist whose work seeks to dignify the abject and highlight our digital absurdity. Utilizing bio-discard: hair, urine, spit, and blood, SRGE_Lindsay explores themes of domination (both imagined and concrete), cybernetic self-manipulation, and time. SRGE_Lindsay specializes in press release writing, show reviews, and copywriting. SRGE_Lindsay earned her BFA in Studio Art and Art History from NYU. She served as a guest lecturer at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Media, Culture and Communications. She is an awardee of Morris Foundation Grant, and the 2019 and 2023 Art & Practice Grant.

Amelia Langas is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The Architect’s Newspaper, Hyperallergic, and COPY among other publications. You can find her on Instagram @ameliaalangas.

Andrea Gil-Garcia is a cultural worker, artist, and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. Her commitment to equity, meaningful social engagement, and amplifying diverse voices is evident in her work with New York City museums and grassroots community art institutions. These include the Groundswell Community Mural Project, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Artists Space, Dedalus Foundation, and the Laundromat Project. In each of these roles, Andrea has advocated for improved access to the arts for first-generation immigrant youth of color and families from underserved communities. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts and Education Studies from the New School and is completing an Executive Master's in Public Administration from New York University, where she is the inaugural Lateefah Simon Social Justice Leadership Fellow.

Andreia Santana is an artist and writer based in New York City and Vienna. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College – City University of New York with a Fulbright/Fundação Carmona e Costa and Calouste Gulbenkian Fellowships. Her artistic practice spans mediums such as sculpture, installation, and performance, being exhibited in several international institutional venues.

Anh Dao Ha (b. United States) is an artist, independent curator, and cultural worker living and working between New York City and Saigon. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design and a BA from The New School. She will be pursuing her MA in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

Anna Carlson is an arts and culture writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in Architectural Digest, The Artist Forum, and Whitehot Mag, among others. She's obsessed with live literature readings and buying random dolls on eBay.

Anna Lustberg is a New York-based arts professional and visual storyteller. She partners closely with artists, galleries, and cultural organizations to help communicate their work, crafting narratives that make art accessible and meaningful to diverse audiences.

Anna Mikaela Ekstrand is a curator and public relations specialist based in New York. Her art criticism has appeared in Vogue Scandinavia, Cultured, BOMB, Art Spiel, Artefuse, and Artslooker. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Cultbytes.

Annalise June Kamegawa is a writer and artist based in Milan. She was a Fulbright scholar in the creative arts, an artist-in-residence at Fabrica Research Centre, and a writer-in-residence with Spike and the Salzburg Kunstverein.

Annette An-Jen Liu 劉安蓁 is a Taiwanese arts writer and curator working between Taipei and New York City. Her practice is informed by her studies in photography and anthropology in Australia. She is a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant and manages projects at Cai Studio. In 2024, Liu was recognized as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in Media.

Annette LePique is a freelance writer based in Chicago. She has contributed to Momus, Hyperallergic, Frieze, WhiteHot, and ArtReview, alongside other regional publications. Annette's a member of the International Association of Art Critics and was the recipient of a Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism in 2023. She's a big fan of dream logic and psychoanalysis.

Anoushka Bhalla’s work explores the intersections of mythology, history, poetry, memory, and power, examining how personal and collective histories shape the human experience. Through confrontational portraits that capture singular emotions—grief, resilience—as well as intimate, introspective studies, she investigates the weight of history and the persistence of hope. Terracotta, with its ties to the earth, time, and archaeology, serves as both material and metaphor, grounding her work in themes of endurance and transformation. Anoushka Bhalla (b. 1997, India) is an artist based in New York City.

Arimeta Diop is a writer, editor, and artist based in Brooklyn. A longtime Vanity Fair staff member, they have contributed to Untitled Art Fair, Vogue, New York, Highsnobiety among other titles where they primarily cover art and culture.

Ashley Davila is a Brooklyn-based writer and critic, and she is the Editor in Chief at Critics Chronicle. She holds a B.S. from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine and other publications.

Asia Stewart is a performance artist whose conceptual work centers her body as a living archive. Based in the United States, she devises rituals that reflect the way she weathers life in a deeply extractive society. Many of her performances unfold as social experiments that negotiate terms of agency and power with audiences. Stewart’s performances have been supported by organizations that include The Bronx Museum, The Shed, Franklin Furnace, A.I.R. Gallery, Silver Art Projects, Marc Straus Gallery, Marble House Project, GALLIM, The Watermill Center, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. Stewart routinely questions how live art can be documented and represented across multiple mediums. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at venues across the United States, including the Mercury Store, Untitled Space, NARS Foundation, Goodyear Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, Kellen Gallery, and Anthology Film Archives. Her first series of prints is also held in the permanent collection of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.

Atreya Mathur is based in New York City and works as the Director of Legal Research at the Center for Art Law. She received her Master of Laws from New York University School of Law. At the Center she conducts legal research on an array of art and law-related topics including copyright law, artificial intelligence, contracts, artist rights, immigration, estates, and legal issues in contemporary and digital art. She publishes articles, teaches legal workshops, addresses legal inquiries, drafts/reviews contracts, and conducts interviews with artists on various legal concerns. She also works as of counsel at On This Spot NYC and at the law office of Irina Tarsis. Mathur worked as a research assistant to Professor Jeanne Fromer at NYU School of Law, and she contributed to the second edition of The Sale of Misattributed Artworks and Antiques at Auction by Anne Laure Bandle, Ph.D. In her free time, she loves exploring the city and her creative side through photography, sketching, writing, painting, fostering pups, and volunteering at rescue shelters.

Audrey Valentine Weisburd is an essayist, fiction writer, poet, and arts and culture journalist based in Brooklyn, with roots in Texas and London. She holds a B.S. in Television, Radio, and Film with a minor in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, as well as a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Oxford. Her writing on art, film, music, and identity has appeared in Flaunt Magazine and Paste Magazine. Her work often explores how we experience art, emotion, and intimacy in an increasingly digital world.

Ava Sharahy is a writer and student based in Manhattan. A recent graduate from Sarah Lawrence College and a current journalism graduate student at Columbia University, their writing focuses on art, gender, culture, and the way these all intersect. You can find them on Instagram, where they go by @r_ava_lations.

Ben Burton is a fashion, film, and culture writer. Originally from Los Angeles, they graduated from Oberlin College in 2023 with degrees in English and Film Studies and a thesis on archive fashion and textuality that was awarded high honors. Ben has been self publishing biweekly through his substack Hi & Lo since 2022, and focuses on cultural criticism spanning and combining disparate artistic mediums and tastes. Nowadays, Ben lives and writes in Astoria, Queens and spends too much money at the movies.

Ben Lipkin is an artist and writer living and working in Brooklyn. They studied New Media and Anthropology at SUNY Purchase, and work as an assistant at KAJE in Gowanus. Ben’s work consists of the accrual and degeneration of language.

Bowie Bo Gyung Kim is an art researcher living and working in New York. Bowie holds an MA in Art History and Criticism from Stony Brook University, where she focused on internet-based artwork from the early 1990s, and an MFA in Fine Art from Hongik University, where she explored imagined landscape collage painting in her own artistic practice. Currently, with a focus on audience participation in artwork, she is investigating the audience’s embodied agency in virtual space by expanding her research to include virtual cognition and awareness.

Bryan Martin is a writer and art critic based in New York City. Currently, he works as an editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and recently received his MA in art history from City College, where he concentrated on the intersections between disability, chronic illness, and self-taught artists.

C.C. McKee is Assistant Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. They received a dual doctorate from Northwestern University and the École des Hautes-Études en Sciences Sociales in 2019 and were a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen from 2022-24. Their research focuses on the intersections of art, colonialism, and natural science in the modern Atlantic World (c. 1750-1950) with an emphasis on the Caribbean. McKee also maintains an active curatorial practice, writes art criticism, and researches the exploration of colonialism and slavery’s injurious ecological “afterlives” in contemporary Caribbean and African Diasporic art. Their writing has appeared (or will appear) in Art Journal, liquid blackness, Small Axe, CASVA Seminar Papers, Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, Art Forum, and Hyperallergic.

Camila Marambio is a curator, writer, and performer working at the intersections of ecology, art, and decolonial thought. She is Co-Director of Ecological Culture at Para la Naturaleza in Puerto Rico, where she leads Territorios Vivos, a curatorial platform for collaborative ecological stewardship. Her recent work includes the book Cancer Ecologies: A Queer Femme Portal (Bloomsbury 2026) and performances that explore voice, grief, and more-than-human worlds.

Catherine Sawoski is an arts and culture critic based in New York City. She specializes in theater and literature, with a focus on experimental performance and the Off Off Broadway scene. She is a regular contributor to Culturebot and FF2 Media, and has been featured in The Drift magazine. Originally from Rhode Island, Catherine holds a B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University. Find her work at catherinesawoski.com.

Celia Mattison is a film critic and culture writer based in Brooklyn whose work has appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vulture, and Slate. She is the author of Deeper Into Movies, a newsletter about the unasked questions of cinema.

Charlie Parsons is a writer and provenance researcher based in New York. He is the author of the monthly art criticism Substack Everybody Be Nice.

Chidinma Iwu is a writer interested in deep dives and analyses into underreported phenomena that underpin large subcultures. She writes about technology, sustainability, gender justice, and culture as we know it for ArtNews, Complex, Paste, Shondaland, Daily Dot, Fast Company, etc. Follow her on Twitter @Chidxnma.

Chloe Alto is a New York based writer and founder of CRITCLUB, an organization holding formal studio critiques for young artists with the goal of fostering dialogue around developing practices. Her writing centers contemporary art discourse, with a focus on Asian and Asian American artists. She has worked with galleries including SAPAR Contemporary and Eli Klein and was the curator for Silk in collaboration with the Asian American Alliance at Columbia University. She continues to engage in critical writing and exhibition-making, and in advancing spaces for rigorous discourse in emerging New York artist communities.

Chloe Zhong is a New York-based curator and writer currently pursuing an M.A. at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Her research and curatorial practice focus on memory, identity, and remembrance, with a particular interest in photography, installation, and time-based media. She holds a B.A. in Art History and Economics from the University of Chicago.

Christina Elia is a freelance journalist and essayist from New York City who writes about fine art, photography, and travel. Her work has been published online in Observer, Apartment Therapy, and i-D Magazine, and has appeared in print in SixtySix Magazine, UP Magazine, and Graffiti Art Magazine.

Ciaran Short is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and activist born and raised in NYC. His work explores New York culture and tackles issues of race and masculinity. His multifaceted creative practice stems from an interest in holistic storytelling using a multimedia approach. He co-founded All Street, an art collective and protest group utilizing art to raise visibility and support social movements in NY. In the spring of 2022, All Street established a permanent gallery space for emerging and underrepresented artists in the East Village. He holds a master’s degree in Media Studies from The New School.

Clare Gemima is an artist and writer from Aotearoa, based in New York City. She contributes art criticism to The Brooklyn Rail, Contemporary HUM, Hyperallergic, Frieze, and other international publications with a particular focus on immigrant painters and sculptors who have relocated their practice to New York.

Colette Bernheim is an art writer, editor, and thinker from New York City. A recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she concentrated in Art History, her research and writing focus on feminist art, conceptual sculpture, performance, and work exploring material and conceptual ephemerality. Instagram: @colettefabiennee Twitter: @colettebernheim

Colleen Dalusong is a curator and writer based in New York City. She has curated shows at Accent Sisters, Uncool Gallery, A Space Gallery, CP Projects Space, and Think!Chinatown.

Colleen Rodgers is a freelance writer covering art, music, and fashion. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Communications from The Fashion Institute of Technology and is currently based in New York City. She writes about the arts and their impact on the cultural landscape of New York City, and has been published by Office Magazine, V and V Man, Blush, and Primadonna Magazine. IG: colleen_rodgers

Connor Sen Warnick (b. 1996) is a filmmaker, artist and writer based in NYC. A lifelong New Yorker, Connor received his B.A. in both Film Studies and Fine Art from Columbia University in 2018 and was unanimously selected as the 2022-23 A4 Van Lier Fellow in Visual Art. Previous work has been featured in the New York Times and Filmmaker Magazine, and exhibited / screened at the Guggenheim Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Metrograph, New/Next Fest and CAAMFest, among other venues.

Cora Fisher is a curator and arts writer based in New York City. She is currently Curator of Visual Art at the Brooklyn Public Library. From 2013 to 2017, she was the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA). She holds a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

Corinne Worthington is an art world dropout turned writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Describing herself as “two parts dilettante and one part intellectual,” her interests are varied and include local politics, wine, tennis, queer media, textiles, and most other art forms. She holds a B.A. in Global Liberal Studies and Art History from New York University and an M.A. in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University.

Cynthia Chen is a writer based in New York City. Originally from Shanghai, she is currently a candidate for New York University’s MFA program in Poetry. Her writings can be found or forthcoming in Asian American Writers Workshop, The Common, Florida Review, Epiphany, Sinetheta Magazine, Poetry Lab Shanghai, and elsewhere. Her work has also been supported by the Community of Writers, Accent Sisters, Beijing Poetry Festival, and Push the Boat Poetry Festival. She is the poetry editor at Washington Square Review.

Danaë Petsimeris is a freelance journalist specializing in culture, lifestyle, and food reviews. She is currently based in Paris and has previously worked in Greece, California, Ireland, and France.

Daniela Murillo is a History of Art graduate from The Courtauld Institute of Art and is currently pursuing an MA in Art and Business at the same institution. Throughout her studies, she dedicated herself to studying Latin American art, which led her to found a platform called Puente, a nomadic gallery that holds exhibitions for artists from her home country (Costa Rica) in London. She has set out on a mission to widen Latin American artists’ visibility, sparking curiosity in the mechanisms behind the Latin American artistic ecosystem in terms of local and global dialogues. Currently, she is researching and mapping the Latin American art market, from the late 19th century to the present day.

Eden Chinn is an artist, curator, and educator whose work explores femininity and self-construction through media. Working across photography, installation, and bookmaking, her practice reflects on how media shapes identity. Her research examines the evolution of feminist self-portraiture in relation to technological change. At Parsons School of Design, she teaches Time in the BFA First-Year Study program. She has also taught in the Interactive Media Arts program at NYU Tisch, where she completed a Research Residency at ITP/IMA. Beyond higher education, she is a Teaching Artist at the New Museum, facilitating the NewMu Teen Fellowship, a two-year, stipend-supported program for NYC public high school students. She is the Co-Founder of All Street Gallery, an artist-run exhibition and community space with locations in the East Village and Chinatown. Through All Street, she has curated exhibitions and public programs that foreground socially conscious practices and support emerging and underrepresented artists.

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Eleonora Hristova is a writer, editor, and copywriter based in Berlin. Her work focuses on the intersections between art, culture, sociology, and fashion in contemporary contexts. She is the Fashion Editor of the Berlin-based magazine The Columbist.

Elisheva Gavra employs interdisciplinary research to investigate vision and its role in the politics of belief and knowledge, using performance, photography, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York, the Broad Art Center in Los Angeles, the Wallach Art Gallery in New York, Jenkins Johnson Projects in Brooklyn, and elsewhere. Her performances have been presented at the New York Public Library, the Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York, the 14 street Y in New York, and the Frankel Center at the University of Michigan. She received an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, was a participant of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York, and is currently doing her research at the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, NYPL.

Eliza Blackorby is a writer and translator from California currently based in New York City. Her work explores the areas of beauty, art, languages, animals, literature, fashion, and video games. Instagram: @elizafictional

Elizabeth Wiet is a writer, editor, and curator based in New York. Interdisciplinary in both method and scope, her research focuses on feminist and queer art, time-based media, and art from the Middle East and its diasporas. She is currently Deputy Editor at Topical Cream and Contributing Editor at Bidoun and has organized programs and exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery, The Kitchen, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. She holds a Ph.D in English from Yale University and is in the process of completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled Maximalism: An Art of the Minor, and with Bidoun, is editing the first monograph on Lebanese-Egyptian artist Nicolas Moufarrege.

Emily Chun is a Seoul-born, New York-based writer. She has written about art for the Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, Frieze Week, ArtAsiaPacific, and ArtReview among others, and has organized curatorial projects at various museums and galleries. She is pursuing her doctorate in art history at Stanford University, where she focuses on the relationship between sculpture of the 1980s & the era’s larger socioeconomic changes such as de-industrialization and the decline of the American middle class. Her work has been supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship in Art History. She is also a member of the curatorial team at Below Grand in NYC.

Emily Lutzker is a cultural advisor and the Executive Director of International Arrivals, operating at the intersection of innovation, social impact, and the arts. Dr. Lutzker is the Slavoj Zizek Fellow of the European Graduate School and has provided expert services for litigation on ideation and the creative process. She is a passionate advocate for arts–business partnerships, artistic freedom, and the NYC community where she lives. IG @lutzker https://www.internationalarrivals.org/

Emma Fiona Jones is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. She holds a BA from Vassar College in art history and women's studies and an MFA in studio art from Stony Brook University, where she also taught courses on craft, Fluxus, and environmental art. Her art practice explores queerness and the reproductive body, using materials ranging from plaster and gauze to pomegranates and salt. She has written for publications including Whitehot Magazine, the Fire Island News, and The Miscellany News, and edited for institutions such as the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Emma Huerta is a writer, mover, and arts worker based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Chicago. For more of her work, see www.emmahuerta.com.

Emma Thibodeaux-Thompson (she/hers) is an art historian based in the US. She recently completed her MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute in London, and research interests range from early medieval to early modern art across cultures and regions, with particular experience with works on paper, German artists, and portraiture in Britain and Europe.

Eunice Lee is a researcher, poet, and translator of Korean literature. Her translations include Syncopation by Kim Sono (ASIA, 2024) and Fruit of Life: Poems by Kim Myong-sun (Rutgers UP, forthcoming). She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Harvard University.

Febe Lamiroy (b. 1995, BE) is an art historian and writer based in Brussels. She has worked on exhibitions and publications for NICC (New International Cultural Centre), WIELS, and Lichtekooi Artspace. In addition, she regularly writes for and with artists, and publishes texts on contemporary art in periodicals and exhibition catalogues, including GLEAN Magazine, De Witte Raaf (The White Raven), and Flash Art. Her work focuses on but is not limited to text, fiction, publications, and visual narrative strategies.

Felicity Wong is a graduate student and writer based in Boulder, CO. Her research focuses on contemporary South/Southeast Asian art, the Asian diaspora, and the aesthetics of the everyday. She received her BA in English from the University of Notre Dame. Instagram: @fashionfictionfelicity

Francisco Donoso is a transnational artist and curator based in NYC. He recently completed the LMCC Workspace Residency 2023-24. Originally from Ecuador but raised in Miami, FL, he’s been a recipient of DACA since 2013. He received his BFA from Purchase College and has participated in fellowships and residencies at Wave Hill as a Van Lier Fellow, Stony Brook University, and The Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace, among others. Donoso has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US notably at El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of Arts, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Wave Hill, Kates-Ferri Projects, NADA House, Field Projects, Second Street Gallery, Baik+Khnessyer, and SPRING/BREAK LA. He is a recipient of an Artist Corp Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant. His work is in corporate and many private collections like Capital One Collection and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Collection. Donoso’s work has been written about in Art & Object, Hyperallergic, The Latinx Project Intervenxions, and The Financial Times among others. https://www.franciscodonoso.com/

Fred Voon is an arts writer from Singapore who has contributed features and criticism to the Observer, Milieu, Plural, The Amp, Art & Antiques, and The Art Newspaper.

Gabriele Di Donfrancesco is an Italian freelance journalist based in Rome covering environmental investigations, Italian politics, culture, queerness and social media. Bylines on IrpiMedia, Jacobin, la Repubblica, L’Espresso, Rolling Stone Italia, Mashable Italia, DailyDot, New Humanist, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Georgina Bruce is a housesitter who also purports to be a writer. She spends much of her time staying in other people’s houses and silently judging their decor and design choices. She also writes fiction, and a weekly newsletter which you can read here. https://thedistracted.substack.com/

Iacopo Prinetti is a curator and writer based in Turin, Italy. He develops public programs and special projects for OGR Torino, and he is an editor for TBD Ultramagazine. His research focuses on how cultural institutions can and should influence society, under the expansive definition of “Creative Institutionalism”. In OGR, Iacopo has worked on several exhibitions and programs featuring artists such as Maria Hassabi, Arthur Jafa, Sarah Sze, Rebecca Moccia, and Sara Enrico. As a co-founder of TBD Ultramagazine, he focuses on contemporary aesthetic theories, on which he commissions essays and artworks from emerging artists and theorists. His writing practice broadens his research by focusing on various aspects of how institutions can and should influence society, under the expansive definition of “Creative Institutionalism” (Imaginart, 2023). Among others, he has published: “Borghi, Against a Rhetoric of Excellence” in IMG Journal N°5 (University of Bologna, Italy), “Convivialities” in Public Parking (Manitoba, Canada), and "Gardening Commons” in Vesper N°8 (IUAV – University of Venice, Italy).

Indira Priscilla (1998) is a Mexican-American art writer, cultural manager, and communications strategist whose work bridges editorial writing, art criticism, curatorial research, and cultural PR, amplifying artists and projects within national and international contemporary art conversations.

Isabel Sonderéguer is an art historian, critic, and curator whose work explores the intersections between art, politics, and affect, with a focus on image theory and the representation of violence. She has curated exhibitions such as Siqueiros y los artistas americanos, Embalsamada con picante, and Con mi dedo trazo el camino del agua, and has written for outlets including GASTV, OndaMx, and Disonare. Formerly Associate Curator at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, she is currently pursuing an MA in Cultural and Creative Industries at King’s College London.

Izzy DeSantis (she/her) is the curatorial assistant at the Tang Museum, where she curates sound art for the museum’s longstanding Elevator Music series. She has an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, and she shares texts from her zinemaking practice at Vanitas Press on Substack. She lives in the woods and has a risograph printer in her bedroom.

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J. Scott Orr is a career writer, editor, and recovering political journalist. His work has appeared in Ocula, Whitehot, UP Magazine, The Lo-Down, Sculpture, Artefuse, and Art511. Based in New York, he is the publisher of the magazine B Scene Zine. He can be reached via @bscenezine on Instagram or at bscenezine@gmail.com.

Jacksun Bein (b. Louisiana; lives/works in New York) is an artist and writer interested in embodiment, individuation, and limits. Bein graduated from The Cooper Union (2024) with the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Prize and Fred A. Lane Award. In 2025, Bein was selected as a Durational Pedagogies Fellow at Dia Chelsea (2025–6). Past fellowships and residencies include: the Prepared Table Fellowship at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought with the Amistad Research Center (2023); the Benjamin Menschel Creative Inquiry Fellowship (2024); Craft 101 at Arts Letters and Numbers (2024); SunShip Studios at Arts Letters and Numbers (2023); and the Critical Philosophy certificate program at The New Centre for Research & Practice (2024—5). Bein operates the project space Interrobang 11232 in Brooklyn.

Jacqueline Yu is an academic based in New York City. She holds a BA in art history and East Asian studies from Columbia University and has published research for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Morgan Library, see/saw, and the Michigan Journal of Asian Studies. She is currently working on a digital history project for Reid Hall, Columbia's historic Global Center in Paris. Her interests include everything and long walks on the beach.

I am a composer. I was born in the year 2000. I have worked with ensembles and performers including Les Percussions de Strasbourg, ASKO Schönberg, the Talea Ensemble, the Mivos Quartet, the ETHEL Quartet, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Noise Catalogue, and Rob Schwimmer. I studied composition with Michael Hersch at the Peabody Institute. I studied Raga with La Monte Young and Michael Harrison. I am now studying composition with Reiko Füting at the Manhattan School of Music. I live in New York; Washington Heights. I grew up in a harbor town called Port Washington; out on Long Island. My mother works with animals and my father is a businessman. I have an older brother; Austin. He lives in Florida and works at a golf course. I have devoted my life to composition and music.

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and zine artist in New York City. He has written for the Brooklyn Rail, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and Words Without Borders, among other outlets. In previous incarnations he was a Senior Producer for Asia Society New York and the Online Content and Community Manager for Library of America, the nonprofit publisher.

Jenan Marcela is a poet, writer, and educator based in Brooklyn.

Jenna Putnam is a writer based in California. She is the author of the novelette Cicadas (2024) and the poetry collection Hold Still (Paradigm Publishing, 2017). Her work has appeared in Hero, ExPat Press, The Moth, The Sun, The New York Times, and others. https://www.jennaputnam.com/

Jiayin Flora Song is a writer and curator based in New York City. Flora is the co-founder of Surfacescape, an online platform highlighting emerging artistic voices and spaces in New York City. Hailing from Beijing, Flora holds degrees from UCLA and Columbia University.

Jill Webb is a Brooklyn-based award-winning journalist and audio producer. She mainly covers mental health, the environment, and labor issues. http://www.jillmwebb.com/

Jiwon Geum is an independent curator from Seoul, based in New York. She explores how artistic practices produce and negotiate embodied and material knowledge, with a focus on feminist and decolonial approaches. She holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BFA from Ewha Womans University, and is a recipient of the 2026 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Exhibition Grant.

Jo Minhinnett is a cultural worker, arts researcher, and writer based in upstate NY. You can find her @jominhinnett on Instagram and at jominhinnett.com.

Joanna Seifter is an art and film critic, museum educator, public programmer, and artist living and working in New York City. Her writing has also appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Tussle Magazine, The Film Magazine, and Art Spiel.

Jonah James Romm (b. 2003) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent curator based in Ridgewood, Queens. They are a graduate of Bard College and a resident of Kaleidoscope Studios in Bushwick. Their art practice is informed by existentialism, queer theory and semiotics, and recent solo exhibitions include The Nausea at Kaleidoscope Gallery. Their work can be viewed online at www.jonahromm.com or on Instagram @jonahjames.r.

Joshua Caleb Weibley is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He also acts as executor of the estate of Joshua Caleb Weibley, which has staged exhibitions at various venues in America including Game Transfer Phenomena at CHART gallery early this year.

Joëlle Antonia Santiago (b. New York, New York) is a writer and choreographer based in NYC. She is a Fulbright Scholar, grantee of the Harriet Hale-Woolley Award for the Arts, and an adjunct faculty member at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Joëlle's writing has been featured in CultureBot and is forthcoming in The Whitney Review. Her dance work has been presented at venues in New York and Paris. Joëlle is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University and speaks English, French, and Spanish.

Julia Norkus is a journalist and photographer currently based in New Jersey. Their focus lies with the arts, with a love for music and performance. Prior to graduating from Emerson College in 2024, they acted as Editor-in-Chief of WECB.live’s Milk Crate, WECB’s music publication, as well as the host of one of WECB’s radio shows—“Lavender Tea.” Their work spans across platforms like underground zine, HorizonMass, The Cambridge Day, and Milk Crate. Julia’s photography has also been featured at The Photographic Resource Center in Cambridge, MA.

Originally from the Big Island of Hawaii, Julia Smith is currently based in the grey margin between New York City and Tokyo. With a forward-looking perspective on the future of techno-humanities and a curiosity for media histories, their work is reflected through a sociological lens with consideration to the environment around them.

Julia Travers (she/they) is a writer, artist, and teacher who covers creativity and innovation in a variety of fields. From her homebase in Virginia, Julia has written for ARTNews, Yes! Magazine, Americans for the Arts, Earth Island Journal, SciArt Magazine, Discover Magazine, and NPR, among other outlets. Find more of their work at linktr.ee/JuliaTravers and jtravers_wordspics.

Julian Stern is a writer whose work explores contemporary art, aesthetic judgment, and cultural critique. His writing has also been published in Artforum.

June Kitahara is an art historian and researcher based in New York City. Her research and writing focus on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and aesthetics.

Justin Kamp is a writer, critic, and performer in New York. His writing has appeared in the Art Newspaper, Observer, and Forever Magazine, and he has participated in performances at galleries including Canada, Sara's, and Foreign + Domestic.

Kate Meadows is a poet and critic from North Carolina living in Brooklyn, New York. Her prose on art and literature has recently appeared in STIRword, ArtCurrently, Little Mirror, and Annulet Poetics; her poetry can be found online in Small Orange and Terror House. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at CUNY Hunter College.

Katherine Williams is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, NY.

Katia Vanlandingham is a writer and artist from Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a degree in English literature from Yale University, with a personal concentration in Modernism and the Arts. She currently lives and works in New York City.

Katya Borkov (they/she) is a queer, Russian-American writer and multimedia artist based in South Brooklyn. They share their practice as the founder and facilitator of Everything Spills Studio, a hybrid creative hub which offers interdisciplinary incubators and workshops.

Kenneal Patterson is a journalist, storyteller, and avid explorer. She’s written for Gothamist, The Brooklyn Rail, 5280 Magazine, Bushwick Daily, The Bay State Banner, Dorchester Reporter, and more. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Callie. https://kennealpatterson.com/

Kimberlean Donis is an essayist, blogger, and arts and culture journalist based in Brooklyn. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Art History, with a minor in Africana Studies, from Williams College and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY. Her work examines how Black visual culture is experienced, mediated, and reshaped within an increasingly digital landscape.

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Lavender Au is a writer from London based in Beijing. She has written for The New York Review of Books, Wired, and The Times. She also cooks @lavenderzuofan on Instagram and @lavender做饭 on RedNote.

Leah Amel Hornsby is a Brooklyn-based curator, writer, and researcher specializing in African American and Latin American art. She founded Art For Us By Us to support BIPOC artists and has curated exhibitions like Still/Moving and Their Lives in Art. Her work spans gallery management, press writing, and research focused on art institutions and cultural history.

Leah Triplett is a curator and writer, currently serving as the Director of Exhibitions and Contemporary Curatorial Initiatives at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), where she recently co-curated the exhibition Artists as Cultivators (2024). Previously, she was a curator at Boston's Now + There, facilitating the Public Art Accelerator and organizing large-scale, temporary, site-specific public art commissions in Boston. Her writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, ArtNet News, Sculpture, Public Art Dialogue, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. She is the 2024 Mary Ann Unger Estate Fellow, researching collaboration and community building in Unger's late 1970s and early 1980s works.

Lia Quezada writes, translates, and edits texts on contemporary art. She lives and works in Mexico City.

Liam Otero is a contributing arts writer for IMPULSE Magazine. Additionally, he is the New York Editor for Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, art critic, curator, and multidisciplinary artist who is based in New York. In conjunction with writing for Whitehot and IMPULSE, he regularly publishes a newsletter, Art & Ponder, on Substack. Otero maintains an active schedule that entails not only penning reviews for exhibitions, but also engaging in studio visits with artists, writing essays for catalogues, and curating exhibitions, among a slew of other projects. Otero's writing has also appeared in publications by Parsons School of Design, Miles McEnery Gallery, and Elza Kayal Gallery.

Liana Zhen-ai is an interdisciplinary artist and dancer from Los Angeles, CA. Her work uses the lenses of new materialism and object-oriented ontology to interrogate shame, nature, and narrative. She has guest lectured at NYU and Marymount Manhattan College, presenting on disability and modification as glitch; the troubled boundaries of body and environment in dance; and defining choreographies of the global south. Liana was a 2025 participant in PERFORMA's Writing Live Program, and her writing has appeared in Naya Magazine, CultureBot, Dance Art Journal, and No, Dear Magazine.

Lili Rebeka Toth is an independent curator working between New York and Budapest. She is a recent graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. In the last two years, she worked as an assistant registrar at the Hessel Museum and as an assistant curator at Portikus in Frankfurt. Her latest curatorial projects include a conference on artist-curated exhibitions at the Giorno Poetry Systems (NYC, 2024), a solo exhibition with the artist-duo Lőrinc Borsos, titled NARNIA IS A LIE at the Hessel Museum (Bard College 2024), HOW(EVER), an art-book fair and symposium at Portikus (Frankfurt, 2023) and a group exhibition and a series of performances commissioned by the Austrian Esterházy Private Foundation, titled VILLA DEI MISTERI (Etyek, 2024).

Lillian Jenner is a metalworker and a poet. (When a metal is too “hard,” it shatters, and like a good anvil, she tries to keep some softness to her.) She is currently based in Philadelphia, where she recently debuted as a drag king named “The Working Man.”

Lily Kwak is a writer and performance curator based in NYC. She holds a BA from Columbia University.

Jiajing “Lily” Sun is a London-based translator and writer specializing in arts and culture. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a research focus on modern and contemporary East Asian art. Her work is featured in Artforum, ArtReview Chinese Edition, ARTNOW by Noblesse, and LEAP, as well as publications by TANK Shanghai, YDP London, and te editions.

Lingyi 灵一 Wang (she/they) is a multilingual playwright, stage manager, and aspiring arts administrator born and raised in Xi’an, China. Her recent credits include—Playwriting: Extraordinary Aliens (Barnard Theatre Department), Three Second Angel (TheaterLab, 2023), It's a Convoluted Play (New South Young Playwrights Festival, 2022); Stage Management: Calico (Under St. Marks, 2024), Crumbs of Joy (The Tank, 2023), Once Upon Rumspringa (The Wild Project, 2022), and 6 more at Columbia School of the Arts (2022–2023). Having received her BA from Columbia University (Theater & Education Studies), Lingyi is heading into Oxford University for research in postcolonial performance studies next year.

Lisa Kwon is a writer based in Los Angeles, CA. With a preservationist lens, she enjoys writing about the diasporic movements of the 20th century that have made Southern California one of the most culturally diverse areas in the state. You can find her work in Cultured Magazine, Vice, Teen Vogue, Eater, and many more.

Lodoe Laura is an artist and writer based in Toronto. Her writing has been featured in BlackFlash, C Magazine, esse and ISSAY!. She spent several years working in archives, galleries, museums and artist-run spaces, and is currently pursuing an education in Traditional Eastern Medicine.

Lu Millet is a writer, researcher, and curator based in Madrid, Spain. Their work addresses knowledge production and artistic methodology through multiple affective states, exploring the experiences of agency, loss, and transcendence inherent to thinking. Their research follows queer studies as a standpoint from which to propose a practical theory, as well as process-oriented curatorial spaces. @luciamillet_

Lucy Kudlinski is an arts and culture writer, dancer, and arts administrator based in Brooklyn. Her writing focuses on dance and the performing arts, especially highlighting experimental works. Her work has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail. Growing up dancing in Phoenix, Arizona, Lucy holds degrees in dance and history from Barnard College of Columbia University.

Lydia Nobles is a New York-based conceptual artist known for her ongoing series As I Sit Waiting, where she transforms functional forms like chairs into vessels for shared vulnerability and endurance. This series, a fiscally sponsored project by the New York Foundation for the Arts, was recently awarded the 2025 NYSCA Grant for Individual Artists. Nobles’ solo exhibitions include KAPOW (2024), SPRING/BREAK Art Fair (2023), Field Projects, and Ross-Sutton Gallery (2022). On the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade’s overturn, two of her sculptures were included in 50 Years Since Roe at the Brooklyn Museum. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, and others, and recognized by IMPULSE, ArtNet News, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Nobles holds an MFA from Parsons School of Art and Design and founded BolsterArts, providing free studio space to artists in New York’s Chinatown.

M. Sullivan was born in Western Mass and grew up on Cape Cod. After living in Boston for three years he traveled all over the States. He settled in NYC for eight years before taking to the road again, driving across the country to his current home on the steps of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. His work has appeared in Epiphany, The Fictional Café, Joyland, The New School Blog, and PANK. He’s also the founding editor of the online lit magazine, Vernacular.

Macy (they/them) is a non-binary Filipino documentary photographer, organizer, public speaker, & curator. They were born and raised all over Southeast Asia. They focus on advocating for psychology, mental health, social justice, and education in the work they do. They speak five languages. They run and founded a Philippine-based non-profit, Talang Dalisay, alongside its special project-based organization, Bayan Kinaadman. They are the head curator & organizer of Worlds Through Minds, which is a people-funded photography gallery and photo publication house that takes place around the world. To date, they have organized & hosted over 50 community events online & in-person, given over 100 keynote speeches, written & copy edited over 30 articles, and worked & collaborated with around 200 non-profits/movements/individuals for their cause & passion.

Madeleine Aitken is a freelance journalist based in Boston. A recent graduate of Tufts University and former editor-in-chief of The Tufts Daily, her work has appeared in Observer, Rewire News Group, PrideSource, Boston.com, and more.

Madelyn Grace likes to take long walks and write things down.

Marcus Civin has written about art recently for ArtReview, Boston Art Review, and Camera Austria, among other publications. His interviews with artists have appeared in Afterimage, BOMB, DAMN, Maake, Metal, Sculpture, and elsewhere. He also writes poems. Track him down at museums and galleries in New York or on Instagram: @marcuscivinwriting.

Maria Owen is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York and born in Lexington, Kentucky. Owen’s writing has appeared in Burnaway, Interview Magazine, Whitewall, and UnderMain. She has written for exhibitions at Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey. Owen holds a BFA in History of Art from Pratt Institute and a MSC in Psychology of Art, Neuroaesthetics, and Creativity from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Mariado Martínez Pérez is a freelance bilingual, arts, and culture journalist from Spain. She holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting and an MA in Bilingual Journalism with a concentration in arts and culture from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Currently based in New York, her reporting covers cultural issues, mainly through writing and audio, from slightly more mainstream influence as well as unique, individual stories under the concept of finding and making culture accessible to all audiences and communities. Her work has appeared in Vogue México, El País, Artishock, and Gatopardo. Instagram: @mariado.m Twitter / X: @mariadomrtnz

Marie Heilich is a writer and curator in Los Angeles. Her writing appears in BOMB, Texte zur Kunst, The Whitney Review of New Writing, Artforum, artist monographs, and exhibition catalogues.

Marthe Yung Mee Hansen is a writer and curator based in Oslo, Norway. She is particularly interested in environmental humanities and contemporary crafts, as well as perspectives from the Asian diaspora and projects that address class perspectives. Marthe graduated with a master’s degree in Museology and Cultural Heritage Studies from the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2020 and did her undergraduate studies in Art History and Media/Cultural Studies at UiO and Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. She currently works as a project and communication manager at the arts organisation Norwegian Crafts. Instagram: @marthemee

Matilda Lin Berke is a New Yorker from Pasadena, California. She has written theory and criticism for publications including the Brooklyn Rail, Filmmaker, Spike, and The Whitney Review, with pieces forthcoming in Purple Fashion Magazine and Mutt Magazine. You can find more information (fiction, poetry, and other projects) on her website. She teaches at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn.

Matt A Hanson is an art writer from Massachusetts, based in Turkey since 2016. He serves as Istanbul desk editor for ArtAsiaPacific, and writes for a variety of publications including Artforum, ARTnews, Artnet News, Hyperallergic and many others.

Matthew Lawson Garrett is a curator, writer, and artist based in New York. His recent projects include SERVICE INTERRUPTION (2024) at Space N.N., Munich, and The Appearance of Distance (2025) at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York. His writing has appeared in publications such as Mousse and Flash Art. He holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

Maureen Sullivan, based in NY, is an independent curator, producer, and writer, in addition to working nationally and internationally through her company RedArtProjects with artists and art organizations on strategic planning, communications, public programs, and events. Interviews and reviews have included Tadaskia, Gary Simmons, Naama Tsabar, Leonardo Erlich, John Waters, and more, as well as Biennials, art fairs, and exhibitions. Curated projects have included solo projects by Christian Jankowski, Antonia Wright, Eve Sussman & Simon Lee, Jeremy Blake, Ghost of A Dream, Yorgo Alexopoulos, and more; and thematic group exhibitions have featured Bjorn Melhus, Marilyn Manson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sue de Beer, Jen DeNike, Meghan Boody, Gilad Ratman, Ugo Rondinone, and more.

Max Kruger-Dull writes about film and literature and also writes fictional works. His writing has appeared in AGNI, Story Magazine, West Branch, The Greensboro Review, the minnesota review, Quarterly West, Bat City Review, Hunger Mountain Review, and elsewhere. He lives in New York with his boyfriend and two dogs. For more, please visit maxkrugerdull.com.

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Meinzer is an artist and art writer interested in investigating traditional modes of artistic display and the choreographies that they produce. In both their own practice and their writing, they pay particularly close attention to the dynamics that exist between artist, artwork, institution, and viewer. By identifying certain restraints, we can locate and experiment with potential points of friction while working within (rather than against) these structures. They are based in New York City and received a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2024.

Micaela Vindman is a curator and architect from Buenos Aires, Argentina, based in New York City. She holds a professional degree in Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard).

Michela Ceruti is an art historian, writer, and editor based in Milan. She has been Managing Editor of Flash Art since 2023.

Michelle Ruiz is a Chicago-born curator and cultural worker with over 17 years of experience in visual arts management. Specializing in advancing BIPOC artists, she focuses on art acquisitions, civic engagement, and social impact initiatives. As the founder of Elle Art Consulting, Ruiz curates collections for corporate and residential clients and manages large-scale projects for artists. She previously served as Program Coordinator for the US Latinx Art Forum and Project Manager & Corporate Art Curator at Gallery 1871, specializing in healthcare, hospitality, and corporate art collections. Ruiz is a board member of Connecting Dots for Latinx Professionals, a 2025 Mujeres de HACE Entrepreneurs Program fellow, and the 2024 Leadership Institute Fellow for the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago, with certificates in Art as Global Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Arts & Cultural Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania. IG: @Michelle___Ruiz IG: @elleartconsulting

Mike Dressel is a writer based in New York. He has contributed to The Gay & Lesbian Review, The Drift, Warm Brothers, and Culturebot. His fiction has appeared in The Berlin Literary Review, Chelsea Station, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, among others.

Mirela is a Brussels-based journalist and communications professional from Greece with a background in law and investigative reporting. She focuses on digital rights, feminist policy, AI ethics, and cultural narratives. Her work includes reporting on violence against women, data privacy, arts and culture, and EU politics. She also conducts interviews with artists worldwide and covers cultural events across Europe.

Molly MacGilbert is a British-born writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She has written about arts and culture and lifestyle for various publications. In her spare time she knits, reads, wanders, and ponders. Her website is mollymacgilbert.com.

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. Her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

Montserrat Miranda Ayejes (Argentina, 1995) is an independent curator and art consultant. With a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art from Sotheby's Institute of Art and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires, she has vast experience working in galleries, museums, and auction houses in New York and Argentina. She has curated exhibits, including Testimonies of What Used to Be (Testimonios de lo que solía ser) at the Gachi Prieto Contemporary Latin American Art Gallery and My Body, My Property at the Consulate General of Argentina in New York. Her writings have been published in national and international media. She currently works at Friedman Benda in New York City.

Muriel Quancard is a New York–based curator, appraiser, and strategic consultant whose work engages artistic practices that challenge notions of value, ownership, and preservation. She is certified by the Appraisers Association of America in Postwar, Contemporary and Emerging Art. Muriel advises artists, collectors, estates, and institutions on valuation, stewardship, and legacy, advancing collaborative models that rethink market behavior, legal constructs, and material conditions. https://murielquancard.com

Mána Taylor is a writer currently based in New York. Her essays, reporting, and criticism on culture and the arts have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Drift, Artsy, Hyperallergic, and Observer, among others.

Nads Neman (b. 1997 in Norfolk, VA) is a writer and artist based in New York City. They earned their BA in History, English and French from the University of Richmond in 2020. In addition to freelance art criticism, they have written text for exhibitions at Flat Rate Contemporary and the Harnett Museum of Art. Nads is the writer of 5 Tubs of Gesso on Substack and is co-director of Flat Rate Contemporary. Their work explores historical sites as a reflection of overlapping cultures and archaeologies, labor, decay, and chronological ambiguity.

Natasha Chuk, PhD is a New York City-based media theorist, arts writer, educator, and independent curator whose work examines the intersection of art, philosophy, and creative technologies. She is the author of Vanishing Points: Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects (Intellect, 2015) and the forthcoming Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography (Intellect, 2025).

Natasha Roberts is an art curator, consultant, collector, and writer based in New York City. Specializing in contemporary art and design, Roberts facilitates collaborations between artists, galleries, and brands, advises collectors, and cultivates cultural capital through innovative campaigns with a range of creative partners. She has also worked for Artsy and Public Art Fund. Roberts is a graduate of The School for Curatorial Studies Venice and the American University. Follow @NatashaCR on Instagram, and learn more about her work at www.theknow.art.

Nicky Ni is a Chinese expat lurking in Chicago. She is assistant editor at Newcity, distribution assistant at the Video Data Bank, and programmer for Onion City Film Festival. @mllecolettex

Nicolas Poblete is a curator, writer, and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. His work honors art-based histories of activism in the Americas, interrogating how social justice ideals mutate as they migrate through borders and cultural contexts. He holds a BA in Art History from McGill University and an MA in Art History and Curatorial Studies from Hunter College. He is currently developing several curatorial projects while volunteering at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Nicole Kaack is an independent writer, editor, and curator with a background in performance production and archives. Kaack’s writing has been published by Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, BOMB, and Sound American. She has organized exhibitions and programs at The Kitchen, Hunter College, A.I.R. Gallery, NARS, Miriam Gallery, HESSE FLATOW, and Small Editions. Previous roles include editorial program manager at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), associate director at A.I.R. Gallery, curatorial fellow at The Kitchen, and archival fellow at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kaack is co-founder of the collaborative artist book project prompt:. @kaackattack https://cargocollective.com/promptcolon

Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani is a Georgian-born and New York-based curator, writer, and researcher. Chkareuli-Mdivani has contributed reviews, essays, and interviews to e-flux, Hyperallergic, Flash Art International, Artforum, MoMa.post, The Brooklyn Rail, The Arts Newspaper, JANE Magazine Australia, NERO Editions Italy, Spaghetti Boost Italy and others. She has curated over ten exhibitions in New York, Germany, Latvia, and Georgia. Chkareuli-Mdivani's book, King is Female, was published in October 2018 in Berlin by Wienand Verlag. Her research involves the intersection of art history and decolonization studies, focusing on totalitarian art and trauma theory; she has extensively written and lectured on the erasure of culture and recontextualization of feminist art within Eastern European and Western contexts. She holds undergraduate degrees in International Relations and Gender Studies from Tbilisi State University and Mount Holyoke College and a graduate degree in Museum Studies from the City University of New York.

Nina Oleynik is a writer and designer based in Washington, D.C. She’s interested in ephemerality in design, and how design can be used to engage the public in sustainable futures. Nina graduated from Colby College in 2018 and recently completed her MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Oceana Andries holds a BA in Art History and Fine Arts from Columbia University. Her background spans fine art, art writing, and curatorial work.

Born in the UNESCO heritage site of Berat, Albania, Odeta Xheka currently lives in Tampa, FL where she makes, curates and writes about art to claim her voice as a woman artist because art is the opposite of speechlessness. Focused on a cross-generational, multi-medium approach which goes beyond the conventional white cube paradigm, her work has been juried into prestigious national and international competitions and has been featured in art magazines and literary journals. She is currently working on gathering material on Fragments of Care, a new project that centers care not as an aside but as essential, particularly within the slow, often invisible labor of creative work.

Olivia Smith is an artist, writer, and gallerist. She is the co-founder and director of Magenta Plains, a contemporary art gallery in New York City.

Paige N Miller is an independent art historian, writer, and researcher. She holds a Master of Letters degree in Art History from the University of St Andrews, where she first became interested in the complex relationships between artists’ writings and their visual work. She has worked internationally with private collections and organizations such as the Artist Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI), the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, and Frieze. Available for projects worldwide, she can be reached through her website www.paigenmiller.com or via @paige.n.miller on Instagram.

Parker Ewen is an artist and writer based in New York. His writing includes interviews with fine artists, exhibition reviews, and contemporary museum theory.

Payal Khandelwal is an art and design writer with 18 years of experience. She is also the founder and editor of The Floating Magazine, an independent visual arts publication she ran for six years. The platform now serves as a digital archive. Website: https://payalkhandelwal.com/

Peiyue Wu is a journalist based in New York City. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the Institute of Fine Art at NYU. Beyond art, she writes about China’s technology and business, with a keen interest in how they are reshaping labor relations, social norms, and the humanities. Her work has been published by Sixth Tone, Caixin Global, Rest of World, Tech in Asia, and Journal of Curatorial Studies.

Penny Yiou Peng 彭憶歐 is an interdisciplinary writer, scholar, and art critic based in Berlin, with roots in Beijing. Her work spans philosophy, performance, and ecological-sensing dramaturgy, engaging Daoist cosmology, critical posthumanism, technology, genetics, rituals, and archaeology of the senses. She composes “Faeview”, a form of speculative art criticism merging fantasy, sci-fi, and poetic methods to reinvent the artistic experience guided by the original artwork. Her writing has appeared in LEAP, Ocula Magazine, Art News, Art Review, Spike Art Magazine, Ars Electronica, CTM Festival, Norberg Festival, Journal of Body, Space, Technology; Performance Research; Stedelijk Studies, among others. Peng holds a double BA in Economics and Film Studies from Smith College (USA), an MA in Film Studies from University College London (UK), and a PhD in Philosophy from the Institute for Theatre Studies, Free University of Berlin (DE). http://www.yioupennypeng.com

Peter Conrad was a winner of My Dream Writing Contest appearing in Wingless Dreamer Publisher’s 2024 anthology Summer Fireflies 2. His work appears in Bare Hill Review, The Quillkeepers, Folklore, Half and One, Prairie Journal, and LOFT Books (issue vi). He had two short stories broadcast on CBC radio. He published articles and lectures in Art History for the Art Institute Online. BookLand Press published his book Training Aces: Canada’s Air Training During the First World War. He is the author of Canadian Wartime Prison Escapes: Courage & Daring Behind Enemy Lines, published by Folklore Publishing. Western Producer Prairie Books published his book Training for Victory: the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in the West. He held the position of Senior Editor and Writer for the Alberta Online Encyclopaedia. Peter holds a Bachelor of Education and MA from the University of Saskatchewan. He has been a high school English teacher.

Peter Kelly is an independent curator, writer, and artist based in New York City. His focus is on contemporary art–in particular craft traditions, post-minimalism, installation, new media, and spirituality.

Petra Bibeau is a New York City-based writer, independent dealer, and curator. Throughout her career, she has worked with contemporary galleries that foster a specific focus on photography and moving image. As an independent dealer, she fosters collaborations with artists, institutions, collections, and publishers. She holds a BA in Liberal Studies from The New School and a certificate in Art Business and Administration from New York University.

Phil Zheng Cai is a curator and writer based in New York. His writings have been published in Whitehot Magazine, Widewalls Magazine, the New York Times T Magazine, Artnet, Parsons MFA Photography, and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, among others. With an interest in philosophy and institutional critique, his translated book The Story of Philosophy was published by Shanghai Yuandong Press in 2020. His curated exhibitions have been reviewed by the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Musee Magazine, Asian American Arts Alliance AMP Magazine, and many others.

Pola Pucheta is a first generation documentarian from New York living and working in Barcelona. She has worked at For Freedoms, The Vision and Justice Project, The Guild of Future Architects, and Brown Girls Doc Mafia. Pola has written for The Creative Independent, Labaatan Zine, Love Injection Magazine, and Cinema Tropical. She is also currently the host of NEW RECORDING: a voice memo podcast supported by Scope of Work.

Qingyuan Deng is a curator and writer based between New York and Shanghai whose practice focuses on time-based media and performance, with a sustained interest in socially engaged work by artists of the Asian diaspora. His research and curatorial projects examine how affect, technology, and the politics of memory shape contemporary forms of subjectivity. He has curated exhibitions and projects at venues including BANK, YveYang and Art in General. Alongside his curatorial practice, Deng writes extensively on contemporary art and visual culture. His criticism and essays have appeared in publications such as Artforum, ArtReview, Hyperallergic, Frieze, Flash Art, and ArtAsiaPacific, as well as institutions including Tanoto Art Foundation and Hartwig Art Foundation.

Rain Chan (b. 1994, Hong Kong) is a New York based architect, artist, exhibition designer and educator based in New York. Rain has served as assistant professor in art and design at universities across Hong Kong and New York, and is currently serving as the Editor in Chief of September. Rain’s work is often interdisciplinary, working with artists, curators, and experts in fields from media theory to quantum physics. His research interests are in the interfaces between personal histories and the public realm. His exhibition design and fabrication work has been shown in MoMA, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Denver Museum of Art, and National Building Museum.

Raymond Diamond works as a reporter with Maine’s only multilingual newspaper, Amjambo Africa, and holds a BS from Southern New Hampshire University, studying Criminal Justice. In addition to journalism, Diamond also works as a professional circus acrobat.

Reg Zehner (they/them/theirs) is a Black American, Jersey City-based curator, DJ writer, and cultural worker from the Midwest. Currently, their practice expands upon errant histories of Black social geographies and how such legacies still continue to shape the current political, physical, and emotional landscapes we currently live in. As well for Zehner’s DJ moniker, Love Higher – their soundscapes are multi-genre experiences that tap into high-energy worldbuilding. They currently are a member of SLICK DOWN, and Blessed Up Gang.

Robert Curcio, curcioprojects, is an independent curator and writer, consultant to art fairs and galleries, and assists artists developing their career. Recent exhibits include At Face Value, Station Independent Projects, Toronto, In It For The Long Haul a career survey of 57 artists he has worked with, Lichtundfire, NYC, and Mortality: A Survey of Contemporary Death Art with Donald Kuspit. Curcio has written for Arte Fuse, Artvoices, ARTnews, Cover, dART International, Sculpture, Tema Celeste, WhiteHot Magazine, and Zing magazines. Curcio was a co-founder and co-producer of the Scope Art Shows and has consulted with the art fairs Asia Contemporary Art Show, CONTEXT, and Pinta Art Fair.

Robin Waart is an artist and writer.

Rory Martin is a detail-oriented and research-focused writer from Boston, currently based in New York. He earned an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art and has experience in art administration, writing, and archival research for prestigious galleries and museums. Rory has written reviews for numerous online art publications and is an admirer of all kinds of art, with a true passion for the abstract. Coupled with a deep interest in pop culture and its movements, writing about art is a platform he often utilizes to help track these major shifts.

Rui Jiang is a Baltimore-based independent curator and writer. She holds a Master's degree in Curatorial Practice from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her research moves between semiotics, intimate gestures, and shifting dialogues, examining how art forms deconstruct and reconstruct within a polycentric field. She investigates the tensions embedded in exhibition-making—complicity, reflexivity, and the shifting power dynamics that shape artistic discourse. Through interdisciplinary approaches, she experiments with curatorial strategies that challenge linear narratives, embrace contradictions, and reimagine the relationships between artists, audiences, and institutions.

Ryan is an arts professional and writer based in New Jersey. She holds a B.A. in Art History and Foreign Languages from Sarah Lawrence College and serves as Gallery Manager at Nicodim in New York. Her criticism is informed by both academic study and professional engagement with contemporary practice.

Sahir Ahmed is a New York-based writer and critic, and senior editor at Family Style. His work has appeared in The Face, i-D, Document Journal, and other publications.

Sam is a Brooklyn-based artist from Northern California. She studied Art History and Studio Art at NYU, and graduated from the Creative Practices program at the International Center of Photography in 2024. Her work tells stories about intimacy, the familial and the environmental, and the collision between personal and public histories.

Samuel Harwood is a freelance writer and filmmaker whose work has been published by The Spool, Projektor, Slant Magazine, L.A. Taco, The Los Angeles Times, and more. Originally from Los Angeles, he currently lives in Mexico City.

Sanaphay Rattanavong is a versatile writer and educator with a deep passion for arts and culture. With a diverse background in arts, culture, mental health, science communication, and technology, his work spans from journalism to fiction writing. He has received various grants and awards for his contributions to the arts and cultural discourse, including the Walker Art Center Twin Cities BIPOC Artist Grant, selected by The SEAD Project (Southeast Asian Diaspora), and the Artist's Initiative Grantee from the Minnesota State Arts Board. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.

Sara Yossef is a writer based in New York City currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing at NYU. Her writing focuses on themes of immigration, arts, culture, and feminism and works to shed light on conversations happening underneath buzzwords.

Sarv Gersten is a writer and editor from New York. She programmes Haft Cinema and is an editorial intern at W.W. Norton. Sarv holds a B.A. in English from the University of Oxford, where her work, at the intersection of Renaissance verse, philosophy, and intellectual history, earned a Gibbs Prize.

Sehrish Alikhan is a journalist and writer based in London. She holds a BA in History of Art from UCL, where she studied Islamic and modern South Asian art. Her writing includes exhibition reviews, creative essays, and poems.

Shreya Ajmani is a writer and arts professional focusing on art from Asia and its diasporas. She has contributed writing to Artnet, Artsy, Frieze, Ocula, Vogue, and Bonhams, among others, as well as to exhibition catalogues.

Sofía Festa is an arts professional with over seven years of experience in cultural programming, artist liaison, and communications. She holds an MA. in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York and has contributed to major institutions, galleries, and artists' studios in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. She has worked as Gallery Manager in New York and Studio Manager for a contemporary artist, where she oversaw exhibitions, public installations, and international collaborations. At the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), she coordinated the institution’s Acquisition Committee, developing cultural experiences and engagement strategies for patrons. Sofía’s work combines curatorial thinking with hands-on coordination, aiming to foster meaningful connections between artists, collectors, and audiences. Her writing projects have been featured in various international arts publications, reflecting her interest in expanding the visibility of Latin American art in global contexts.

Sophie Barfod is an independent curator and writer from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She works at the intersection of the curatorial and strategy, currently contributing to SaveArtSpace. Her practice is focused on curating in found spaces, with exhibition concepts often rooted in feminist theory and social practice work. She is a MA Curatorial Practice candidate at the School of Visual Arts, with a BSc. (hons) in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics from the University of Amsterdam. She has held strategic positions at YAG (McKinsey-affiliate), Heineken, Julietta Alvarez Galeria, and is an ex-founder of an experimental arts and technology startup in Amsterdam.

Sophie Steinberg (she/her) is a writer from Brooklyn, NY. She is a journalist, playwright, poet, and sometimes live storyteller. She is a graduate of Occidental College and has previously lived in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Her writing has been published in The Nation, Business Insider, Santulan Creative Magazine, and The Occidental. She is also a contributor for the music blog Passion of the Weiss. At the moment, she is an intern at Brooklyn Poets.

Spencer Klink (b. 2001, Los Angeles, CA) is a 23-year-old artist, designer, and writer based in Dessau-Roßlau, DE. Currently, he is completing a Fulbright research fellowship at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. He holds a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Wesleyan University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2024. Samples of his work can be viewed on his website, spencerklink.com, or his Instagram, @thespencerklink.

Sterling Corum (she/her) is a journalist and filmmaker in Queens, NY. An alumnus of the University of Miami, Sterling is passionate about environmental justice and highlighting the influence of politics on arts, culture, and sports. Her writing has been published in Gothamist, Cultbytes, The GIST, and more. As an Associate Producer at CaveLight Films, she is currently working on their forthcoming feature documentary.

Taeyoon Kim is a DJ based in Seoul. He writes about rap music and plays anything that is not rap music.

Tahney is an Australian writer from the deserts surrounding the Murray River near Pomberuk (lands of the Ngarrindjeri people). She began her arts career in curating, programming, and communication roles at arts organizations in Naarm/Melbourne, and holds a First Class Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne, along with other arts and marketing degrees. Currently, she’s the Art Editor at The Suburban Review, writes for art media across the world, and runs Compass North: a communication agency for artists and creative organizations. She lives in a tiny, art-filled Paris apartment with her bunny, Enzo, but can be spotted in on long distance trains across Europe, and occassionally back in a Melbourne cafe.

Tara Parsons is a New York-based writer interested in contemporary art, literature, and arthouse cinema. Her writing career began in the political sphere, where she contributed to G7 and G20 reports and drafted communications for the US House of Representatives. She has worked with institutions including Christie’s, Nunu Fine Art, and the Catalogue Raisonné of Robert Ryman. Her academic work, including a thesis awarded highest honors, has been presented at SUNY New Paltz and the Hunter Museum of American Art. Parsons graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College, Columbia University, with a Bachelors in Art History.

Teddy Sandler is a writer, curator and sensory artist working alongside electronic music as founder of the show and exhibition series, -STHESIA. She creates speculative worlds to divine positive futurities and is currently creating The Common Almanac, a platform for affective artists. You can find her critical reviews and experimental writing in Newcity Magazine, Write That Down Magazine, Firebird Magazine, and Better on Vinyl.

Terra Keck is an image-maker, performer, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and her BFA from Ball State University. She co-hosts the comedy-educational podcast “Witch Yes!,” and is a curatorial partner at Field Projects Gallery. You will find her artwork in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford American Arts and in permanent institutional collections in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and California. Her work has been exhibited in New York at Spring/Break Art Show, Future Fair, All St Gallery, and internationally this year with MAIA Contemporary in Mexico City, and Sun Contemporary in Bali. She is a regular contributor to Artspiel and Artefuse.

Theodora Bocanegra Lang is a writer from New York. She has an MA from Columbia University and a BA from Oberlin College, both in Art History. She previously worked at Dia Art Foundation and Gavin Brown's enterprise. You can find her on Instagram @realtheodora.

Tiffany Babb writes and edits articles about comics and pop culture. She has previously served as deputy editor at Popverse and as co-editor of the Eisner Award winning PanelxPanel magazine. She has written for The AV Club, Paste Magazine, and The Comics Journal. You can find her poetry in Rust & Moth, Third Wednesday Magazine, and Cardiff Review. Her first collection of poetry A LIST OF THINGS I’VE LOST is available from VA Press.

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Vinh Phu Pham is an artist, literary scholar, and critic based in New York City. His writing covers Vietnamese contemporary art, the musical legacies of the Republic of Vietnam, and Asian American literature in diaspora.

Waltpaper (American, b. 1972) is a gender queer author and interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. As a subcultural diarist, his explorative and allegorical work is rooted in his first hand experiences with interlocking themes of identity, gender, sexuality, addiction, trauma and healing. He has published two books, NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS and THE CLUB KIDS, as well as, the fiction zine series, HOTGLUE, and is considered one of the foremost voices on New York City’s vibrant nightlife, art and street culture.

Will Heinrich writes about contemporary art for The New York Times. He has also written for The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, and GalleristNY. Heinrich’s novel The Pearls was published in 2019; his first novel, The King’s Evil, was just reissued in London by Thousand Horsemen Press.

Xuezhu Jenny Wang is an art journalist with a background in postwar art and architecture. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University and is based in New York City. Wang is the Editor-in-Chief of IMPULSE Magazine.

Yasmeen Abdallah is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and educator examining history, contemporary culture, materiality, reuse, memory, and space. She has been a visiting and teaching artist at institutions including New Museum; Pratt Institute; Sarah Lawrence College; Residency Unlimited; BRIC; Kean University; Parsons; Columbia University; Children’s Museum of NYC; El Barrio Artspace; Fairleigh Dickinson; and University of Massachusetts. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology (focus in Historical Archaeology) and in Studio Art with honors, with a Minor in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies from University of Massachusetts; and received an MFA in Fine Arts, with distinction, from Pratt Institute. Exhibitions include Art in Odd Places; the Boiler; Bronx Art Space; Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center; Cornell University; Ed Varie; Elizabeth Foundation; NARS Foundation; Open Source; Pratt Institute; PS122 Gallery; Spring Break Art Show; University of Massachusetts; and Westbeth. Publications include Anthropology of Consciousness; Ante Art; Art Observed; Bust Magazine; Emergency Index; Hyperallergic; Papergirl Brooklyn; Free City Radio; Radio Alhara; Tussle Magazine; the Urban Activist; and Transborder Art. Her work is in public, private, and traveling collections in the U.S. and abroad. IG: @86cherrycherry.

Yonatan Eshban-Laderman is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an M.A. in German Studies from Stanford University with concentrations in Performance Studies and Media Studies. Yonatan’s art practice and scholarship investigate the intersection between performance, technology, and politics.

Yuyang Zeng (Rainne) is a doctoral candidate at the School of Film at Xiamen University, with a research focus on cinema of exhibition. She holds an M.A. in Art Curating and a B.A. in Art History from the University of Sydney. Rainne is a reviewer for Cumulus, the Global Association of Art and Design Education and Research, and her scholarly articles have been published in both A&HCI and CSSCI-indexed journals. She frequently presents at international academic conferences, such as the World Congress of Art History (CIHA). Rainne is also an independent curator and artist. In 2023, her curatorial project Terrestrial Landing: Planet Candidates was featured in the Emerging Curators Project at the 14th Shanghai Biennale.

Zara Roy is a New York-based poet, playwright, and journalist. She received her B.A. in psychology from the University of New Mexico in 2023 and her work has appeared in the Daily Lobo, Humphrey Magazine, Scribendi, and Conceptions Southwest. Instagram: zarazzledazzle Substack: zarazzledazzle