CONTRIBUTORS

Alison Castle

Alison Castle (seen here with Marc Newson in a Ferrari 857 S at the 2022 1000 Miglia) is a writer, editor, and filmmaker. She holds a BA in philosophy from Columbia and an MA in photography and film from New York University. She has edited and written many books on photography, film, and design for Taschen.

Marc Newson

Marc Newson CBE is an industrial designer whose work spans a wide range of disciplines. Born in Sydney, Newson staged his first solo exhibition at the age of twenty-three and two years later created the now iconic Lockheed Lounge chair. He is the only designer represented by Gagosian and his designs are featured in the permanent collections of more than forty institutions worldwide.

Carlos Valladares

Carlos Valladares is a writer, critic, programmer, journalist, and video essayist from South Central Los Angeles, California. He studied film at Stanford and began his PhD in History of Art and Film and Media Studies at Yale University in the fall of 2019. He has written for the San Francisco Chronicle , Film Comment , and the Criterion Collection.

Ruth Rogers

Ruth Rogers is a chef and co-founder of the iconic London restaurant The River Café. Known for her elegant and seasonal Italian cuisine, she has been instrumental in shaping the UK’s modern culinary landscape. Along with her business partner Rose Gray, Rogers has been awarded multiple accolades and accolades, including a coveted Michelin star. She has also published several cookbooks, sharing her love of Italian food and cooking techniques with home chefs. Ruth Rogers continues to be a leading figure in the world of food and a champion of sustainable and seasonal ingredients. She is also the host of the podcast “Ruth’s Table.”

Andrew Winer

Andrew Winer is the author of the novels The Marriage Artist and The Color Midnight Made . He writes and lectures on art, philosophy, and literature. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, he is presently completing a novel and a book on the contemporary relevance of Friedrich Nietzsche’s central philosophical idea, the affirmation of life.

Sally Mann

Sally Mann is an American photographer and writer. Her work is held in many notable collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

Mann’s Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (Little, Brown, 2015) was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Awards and in 2016 won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022 and is a Prix Pictet laureate. Photo: Annie Leibovitz

Benjamin Moser

Benjamin Moser is a writer based in the Netherlands. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (2009) and of Sontag: Her Life and Work (2020), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters , will be published in October.

Derek Blasberg

Derek Blasberg is a writer, fashion editor, and New York Times best-selling author. He has been with Gagosian since 2014 and is the executive editor of Gagosian Quarterly.

Jim Shaw

Jim Shaw has responded to American cultural history through painting, drawing, and sculpture since the 1970s, drawing on sources as wideranging as comic books, pulp novels, rock albums, protest posters, and amateur paintings. Often unfolding in extended narrative cycles, Shaw’s works juxtapose images of friends and family with depictions of world events, pop-cultural phenomena, and alternative realities, blending the personal, the commonplace, and the visionary. Photo: LeeAnn Nickels

Michael Slenske

Michael Slenske is a Los Angeles–based writer and independent curator who has organized exhibitions at Praz-Delavallade, the Landing, Wilding Cran Gallery, and Frieze LA. His work has been anthologized, included in many artists’ monographs, and appears regularly in W, Galerie , and Los Angeles Magazine Photo: Ry Rocklen

Mindy Seu

Mindy Seu is a New York–based designer and technologist, an assistant professor at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, and critic at the Yale School of Art. Her expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, design commissions, and close collaborations.

Richard Wright

Richard Wright is best-known for his painted and gilded works applied directly to walls and ceilings. His pieces, which are often transient, charge the spaces they inhabit with a range of forms, from baroque ornamentation to constructivist patterns. In recent years he has produced commissions for numerous public spaces and institutions, including the Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth-line station, London (2018), the Queen’s House, Greenwich, London (2016), and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2012). In addition to these site-specific works, Wright also creates watercolors, silk screens, and leaded-glass windows and skylights. In the spring of 2023, Gagosian will publish a major monograph documenting the last ten years of his work; in March, he will have an exhibition at Gagosian Davies Street, London. Photo: David Ersser

Percival Everett

Percival Everett is the author of twenty-two novels and four collections of stories. His novels include The Trees (2021), Telephone (2020), So Much Blue (2017), and Erasure (2001). He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and Creative Capital. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. He was previously curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show, World Soup (The Kitchen Show), in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 1991, he has curated more than 300 exhibitions. Photo: Tyler Mitchell

Ashley Overbeek

Ashley Overbeek is the director of strategic initiatives at Gagosian. She has been collecting NFTs since early 2019 and is a cohost on Wednesday Wonders, a weekly Twitter space where she interviews leading crypto artists.

Ester Coen

Ester Coen is an art historian and curator. She is an expert on Italian Futurism, the Metaphysical artists, and the international avant-gardes, and her research for her numerous essays and publications extends from the 1960s to the contemporary scene. She has curated many exhibitions, their subjects ranging from Giorgio de Chirico, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, and Henri Matisse, to Richard Serra and Gary Hill.

Tiziana Terranova

Tiziana Terranova is an Italian theorist and activist who studies the effects of information technology on society and explores concepts such as digital labor and commons. Terranova has published the monograph Network Culture

Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen books, most recently the novel Dinosaurs (W. W. Norton, 2022). Her previous novel, A Children’s Bible , was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction and one of the New York Times Book Review ’s “10 Best Books of 2020.” Other titles include the novels Sweet Lamb of Heaven (2017) and Mermaids in Paradise (2015). Millet has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and various other honors, and works as a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity, an organization dedicated to fighting climate change and species extinction. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona. Photo: Nola Millet

Genieve Figgis

Genieve Figgis is an artist who lives and works in County Wicklow, Ireland. She received her BA in Fine Art from the Gorey School of Art, Wexford, Ireland, in 2006; BA honors from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2007; and her MFA from the National College of Art and Design in 2012.

Travis Diehl

Travis Diehl is a critic, writer, and editor. Recent reviews and essays of his have appeared in the New York Times , Artforum , Art in America , x-tra , Frieze , the Financial Times , and Tank ; recent poems have appeared in Forever. Awards he has won include the Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant and the Rabkin Prize in Visual Art Journalism. He is Online Editor at x-tra

Jennifer Snyder

Jennifer Snyder is the oral history archivist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, where she manages and cares for more than 2,500 interviews and their related assets. Snyder earned her MLS from the University of Maryland and enjoyed a career as a processing archivist before finding her way to oral history.

Lumi Tan

Lumi Tan is a curator and writer based in New York. She is currently the curatorial director of Luna Luna, a traveling art amusement park that originated in a 1987 project conceived by André Heller. She was previously senior curator at The Kitchen, New York, where she organized exhibitions and produced performances with artists including Kevin Beasley, Gretchen Bender, Abraham Cruzvillegas, E. Jane, Baseera Khan, Autumn Knight, Moor Mother, Sondra Perry, the Racial Imaginary Institute, Tina Satter, Kenneth Tam, and Anicka Yi. Tan has also held positions at the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, the Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, and MoMA PS1, New York. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Artforum , Frieze , Mousse , Cura , and many exhibition catalogues. She was the recipient of the 2020 via Art Fund Curatorial Fellowship.

Lia Robinson

Lia Robinson is a curator specializing in global modern and contemporary art. She currently serves as director of programs and research at the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation, which is committed to presenting and preserving the legacy of the video pioneer Shigeko Kubota (1937–2015) and to supporting research, experimentation, and broader access to artistic practices at the intersection of art and technology.

Joy Williams

Joy Williams is the author of five novels, most recently Harrow (2021); four collections of stories; and Ill Nature (2001), an essay collection that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her many honors include the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the academy in 2008. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming.

Ben Gillespie

Ben Gillespie works as an oral historian at the Archives of American Art, where he manages the oral history program and produces the podcast Articulated . His research attends to the ways in which we might recuperate, preserve, and amplify neglected artistic voices. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University.

Dan Colen

In works ranging from painting and sculpture to installation and performance, Dan Colen plays with familiar materials and cultural symbols to interrogate the relationship between meaning and object. He is the founder of Sky High Farm, a nonprofit committed to improving access to fresh, nutritious food for New Yorkers living in underserved communities. Photo: Eric Piasecki

K.O. Nnamdie

K.O. Nnamdie is a curator, writer, art advisor, and artist based in New York City. He is the director at anonymous gallery and runs Restaurant Projects, a curatorial project and research-driven art-advisory service founded in 2018 and based on Nnamdie’s interest in the intersection between hospitality and the arts. Photo: Thomas Polcaster

William Middleton

The Paris-based writer William Middleton is the author of Double Vision , a biography of the legendary art patrons and collectors Dominique and John de Menil, published in 2018 by Alfred A. Knopf. He has contributed to such publications as W, Vogue , Harper’s Bazaar, Architectural Digest , House & Garden , Departures , Town & Country, the New York Times , and T. Middleton’s next book is Paradise Now: The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld , to be published by HarperCollins in February 2023.

Michael Cary

Michael Cary organizes exhibitions for Gagosian, including eight Picasso exhibitions in collaboration with John Richardson and members of the Picasso family. He joined Gagosian in 2008 after working for six years with the late Kynaston McShine, then chief curator at large at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Clive Smith

Tiana Reid

Tiana Reid is an assistant professor in the Department of English at York University, Toronto. Her writing has been published in Aperture , Art in America , Artforum , Canadian Art , Frieze , the Nation , the New York Review of Books , the Paris Review, Vulture , and elsewhere.

Fiona Alison Duncan

Fiona Alison Duncan is a CanadianAmerican author and organizer and the founder of the social literary practice Hard to Read. Duncan’s debut novel, Exquisite Mariposa (Soft Skull Press), won a 2020 Lambda Award. She is currently developing a narrative biography and critical study of the transdisciplinary American artist Pippa Garner.

Adam McEwen

Adam McEwen was born in 1965 in London, England. He received his BA in 1987 from Christ Church, Oxford, and then received his BFA in 1991 from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. His multifarious practice includes obituaries of living subjects such as Bill Clinton, Greta Thunberg, and Grace Jones, alongside sculptures in various media and paintings on canvas and sponge. McEwen currently lives and works in New York City. Photo: Andisheh Avini

Lisa Turvey

Lisa Turvey is the editor of the catalogue raisonné of Ed Ruscha’s works on paper. Before joining Gagosian, in 2008, she was the managing editor of October. She has written for publications including Aperture , Artforum , Art Journal , and October

Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller studied art history at the Courtauld Institute. Deller won the Turner Prize in 2004 and represented Britain in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. He has been producing projects since the mid1990s, often in the public realm.

Wyatt Allgeier

Wyatt Allgeier is a writer and an editor for Gagosian Quarterly. He lives and works in New York City.