Art Critics' Reading List

TIM HADFIELD

TIM HADFIELD

Tim Hadfield is a British artist, curator and writer who is a professor of media arts at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, where he was the founding head of the department. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. Hadfield has lectured at many renowned institutions, including Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Savannah [...]



GREGORY BUCHAKJIAN

GREGORY BUCHAKJIAN

Gregory Buchakjian is an interdisciplinary artist and art historian. He is director of the School of Visual Arts at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA). His research and practice deal with Beirut and its history. From 2009 to 2016, he explored the city, collected vestiges and encountered passers-by, scholars and artists in a process that generated [...]



TOKE LYKKEBERG

TOKE LYKKEBERG

Toke Lykkeberg is a Danish curator, critic, consultant and director of the exhibition space Tranen. Currently, he is developing Tranen’s program with a focus on “extemporary art,” i.e. art that is not of its moment, but rather out of time. He has curated, among others, the shows “Welcome Too Late” (2017) at Kunsthal [...]



NAT MULLER

NAT MULLER

Nat Muller is an independent curator and writer. Her main interests are image politics and contemporary art in and from the Middle East. Recent exhibition projects include “Spectral Imprints” for the Abraaj Group Art Prize in Dubai (2012) and “This is the Time. This is the Record of the Time” at Stedelijk [...]



FRED GROSS

FRED GROSS

Fred Gross is a professor of art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where his focus is on the art and photography of the contemporary period. He has published numerous articles and reviews in Cabinet and Afterimage, and his book Diane Arbus’s 1960s: Auguries of Experience (2012, University of [...]



EDUARDO CARRERA

EDUARDO CARRERA

Eduardo Carrera Rivadeneira is the chief curator of the Center for Contemporary Art (CAC) in Quito, Ecuador. He was co-director of No Lugar - Arte Contemporáneo, as well as Advisor and National Director of Museums and Archaeological Sites of the country’s Ministry of Culture and Heritage from 2015 to 2016. He has [...]



DIANA NAWI

DIANA NAWI

Diana Nawi is an independent curator based in Los Angeles. She previously served as associate curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) for five years, where she curated exhibitions including “John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night,” “Adler Guerrier: Formulating a Plot,” “Iman Issa: Heritage Studies” and “Nari Ward: Sun Splashed,” a mid-career survey of the artist’s work. [...]



GABRIEL PEREZ-BARREIRO

GABRIEL PEREZ-BARREIRO

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro is director and chief curator of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. From 2002 to 2008, he was curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin. In 2007, he was chief curator of the 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Prior to that, he [...]



DIANE MULLIN

DIANE MULLIN

Diane Mullin is senior curator at the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota.  She earned her PhD in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis. Mullin was director of Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery (2002-2004) where she ran the MCAD/McKnight and MCAD/Jerome fellowship programs. Her exhibitions include “Paul [...]



CARLA ACEVEDO-YATES

CARLA ACEVEDO-YATES

Carla Acevedo-Yates is a curator, researcher, and art critic. She earned an M.A. in Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College where she was awarded with the Ramapo Curatorial Prize. Previously she earned a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Cultures from Barnard College, Columbia [...]