I’ve been writing about art and culture since 2008. My exhibition reviews, interviews, and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, Frieze, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Momus, among others. This work has also been cited in recent books such as Conflict, Trauma, and the Media; Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place; Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles; and Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body. As a 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 Fulbright Fellow in Warsaw, I wrote about contemporary art where it intersected explicitly with the deprivations of Eastern European Communism and the rise of ultra-right-wing Polish politics. I am a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grantee, and in 2021 I guest-edited the final thematic issue of SFMOMA’s Open Space magazine.
Recent publications:
Rebecca Marimutu at Blue Sky, Artforum, vol. 62, no. 3, November 2023
Jaleesa Johnston: Knowledge in the Body, Noon/Center for Art Research, University of Oregon, Fall 2023
SCUMB: Justine Kurland Interviewed by Bean Gilsdorf, BOMB Magazine, September 27, 2023
Bonnie Lucas at ILY2, Artforum, vol. 61, no. 10, Summer 2023
Parts of a Landscape: The Career and Practice of Rita Robillard, catalog essay for Rita Robillard: Time and Place, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, January 2023
Getting Inside Srijon Chowdhury’s Head, Art in America, October 7, 2022
Taking Stock: A DIY Guide, SFMOMA's Open Space, November 8, 2021
Seeing Visual Artists: A Portland Pandemic Report, Center for Arts Research, University of Oregon, November 1, 2021
To Orient by Closer Stars, SFMOMA's Open Space, October 12, 2021
The News According to Bruce Burris, catalog essay for Bruce Burris: A Shrine for a Shrine, Schneider Museum of Art, October 4, 2021
Jess Perlitz's Tragicomic Practice, Figuring, Center for Arts Research, University of Oregon, September 2021
Questioning Success: Reading and Thinking Together, Figuring/Center for Arts Research, University of Oregon, September 2021
An Atmosphere of Threat: Betty Tompkins Interviewed by Bean Gilsdorf, BOMB Magazine, September 24, 2021
Tannaz Farsi: Constant Shift, Full Bleed issue 5, June 2021
New Images for an Old Struggle: Jacob Lawrence at Seattle Art Museum, Variable West, May 20, 2021
Say It With Flowers, catalog essay for Amy Bay: Blush, Melanie Flood Projects, April 23, 2021
Mark R. Smith: Notions at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, April 6, 2021
Wide Open Spaces: Pacifico Silano Emancipates His Gay Erotica, Momus, November 16, 2020
Documenting the Changing Self: Melanie Flood at Fourteen30 Contemporary, Variable West, November 12, 2020
Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly, Another Chicago Magazine, September 30, 2020
Storm Tharp’s Cinematic View of Everyday Life, Frieze, September 24, 2020
Power and Protest: A Studio Visit with Ellen Lesperance, Full Bleed, May 21, 2020
Katherine Bradford Dreams of Intimacy, Frieze, May 7, 2020
Portland’s Artist-Run Spaces Thrive Under the Radar, Art in America, December 12, 2019
Auspicious Conflagrations: The Heat of Women’s Anger, Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2, 2019
Deerhide and Polyester: Natalie Ball Crafts Monuments to Indigenous Resistance, Art in America, September 30, 2019
Riddles for Minds and Bodies, Art in America, November 1, 2018
With Regard to Cleveland, SFMOMA's Open Space, September 27, 2018
The Hand That Holds the Rod, SFMOMA's Open Space, April 11, 2018
The Best Museum in the World, SFMOMA's Open Space, March 14, 2018
Sewing Lessons, SFMOMA's Open Space, February 14, 2018
Palliative Care, SFMOMA's Open Space, January 17, 2018
Lutz Bacher at 3320 18th Street, Artforum, August 29, 2017
Sarah Lucas at Legion of Honor, Artforum, August 20, 2017
Justin John Greene at Jessica Silverman Gallery, Frieze, July 18, 2017
Sharon Lockhart: Rudzienko at Foksał Gallery Foundation, Frieze, January 24, 2017
Jarosław Kozłowski: Sensations of Reality and Conceptual Practices 1965–1980 at MOCAK, Artforum, January 23, 2017
If You Don’t Know Me By Now, You Will Never Never Never Know Me at Fundacja Arton, Daily Serving, October 6, 2016
This Difficulty: A Conversation with Ivo Dimchev, SFMOMA's Open Space, September 6, 2016
Frames and Implications: Andrea Fraser’s Official Welcome (2001–3), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, July 28, 2016
De-Mo-Kra-Cja at Galeria Labirynt, Frieze, July 15, 2016
In-between, Between Worlds exhibition catalog, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, July 2016
The Travellers at Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Artforum, June 23, 2016
Slavs and Tatars at Raster, Artforum, June 13, 2016
Help Desk: Underrepresentation, Daily Serving, May 23, 2016
Alina Szapocznikow: Human Landscape(s) at Galerie Loevenbruck, Daily Serving, May 20, 2016
Art Beyond Art: Making Use at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, The Exhibitionist, April 26, 2016
Help Desk: Quid Pro Quo, Daily Serving, April 25, 2016
Quickscan NL #02 at Nederlands Fotomuseum, Artforum, April 22, 2016
Cesary Poniatowski: No Center No Edges at Piktogram Gallery, Daily Serving, April 21, 2016
Jens Fänge at Galerie Perrotin Paris, Artforum, March 23, 2016
Bread and Roses: Artists and the Class Divide at MoMA Warsaw, Artforum, March 21, 2016
Ludmiła Popiel at Fundacja Arton, Daily Serving, February 11, 2016
Anna Konik at Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle, Artforum, January 29, 2016