Art Critics' Reading List

SELENE WENDT

SELENE WENDT

Selene Wendt is an art historian, curator, and writer who works as director of The Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway. She has curated numerous international exhibitions, including: “Shirin Neshat, Beyond Orientalism;” “Liza Lou, Leaves of Glass;” “Ghada Amer, Reading Between the Threads;” “Art Through the Eye of the Needle;” and “Equatorial Rhythms,” which [...]



GUILLERMO SANTAMARINA

GUILLERMO SANTAMARINA

Guillermo Santamarina is an art critic, curator, and visual artist based in Mexico City. Since 1981, he has curated more than 300 exhibitions for private and public institutions in Mexico and internationally. He has been director of several important cultural institutions, including Ex Teresa Arte Actual and the Museo Experimental El Eco. From [...]



VICTORIA LYNN

VICTORIA LYNN

Victoria Lynn is an independent curator and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. The author of three books and over 70 articles and catalogues, Victoria is the Visual Arts Curator for the Adelaide Festival, where she curated the inaugural Adelaide International, Apart, we are together in 2010. She is also the curator of Double [...]



ALVARO RODRIGUEZ-FOMINAYA

ALVARO RODRIGUEZ-FOMINAYA

Alvaro Rodríguez Fominaya is executive director/curator at Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), where he has organized projects with Shahzia Sikander, Surasi Kusolwong, Tsang Kin-Wah and Gao Brothers, and Ai Weiwei/Acconci Studio, among others. He is also consultant lecturer at Sotheby’s Art Institute Singapore and part-time lecturer at City University of Hong Kong-School of [...]



DAVID LISS

DAVID LISS

David Liss, Artistic Director and Curator, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. He has organized numerous exhibitions, projects, events and publications, in Toronto, Montreal and internationally. His most recent publication is Future Species, a book featuring contemporary artists and writers on the subject of the future. Current curatorial projects include «Empire of Dreams: phenomenology [...]



MERCEDES VICENTE

MERCEDES VICENTE

Mercedes Vicente is curator of Contemporary Art at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. She earned masters degrees in Film and the Arts from New York University and in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and was Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Vicente has curated numerous exhibitions including “From mini-FM to [...]



MICHELE ROBECCHI

MICHELE ROBECCHI

Michele Robecchi is an Italian writer and curator based in London. Former Managing Editor of Flash Art (2001-2004) and Senior Editor at Contemporary Magazine (2005-2007), he is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Christie’s Education and an editor at Phaidon Press, where he edited monographs on Marina Abramovic, Francis Alÿs, Jorge Pardo, Stephen Shore [...]



SUSANNE PRINZ

SUSANNE PRINZ

Susanne Prinz is a freelance international curator based in Berlin. She has curated numerous shows throughout Germany and Europe. Among the most recent are the retrospective show «Porträts by Clegg & Guttmann» in Innsbruck and «After four Rotations of A, B makes one Revolution» with Rossella Biscotti and Kevin van Braak, as well [...]



PACO BARRAGAN

PACO BARRAGAN

Paco Barragán (Oviedo, Spain) is an independent curator and an arts writer based in Madrid. He is curatorial advisor to the Artist Pension Trust (APT), New York. Some of the shows he has curated most recently are “The Non-Age,” Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winthertur, June-July 2009; “Marc Bijl. Arrested Development” (co-curated with Javier Panera), Domus [...]



LARA TAUBMAN

LARA TAUBMAN

Lara Taubman is a freelance international curator and art critic. She is a correspondent for internationally renowned art journals such as Artnews, Contemporary, Modern Painters and Sculpture Magazine and has written for numerous others. She has curated exhibits at the Heard Museum for Native American Art, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and [...]