2026


Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time
e-flux Criticism, October 2026

Traces: Dionne Lee in conversation with Re'al Christian
IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine vol. 5, no. 2, 2026

Nothingness as a State of Indeterminacy in Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts
Sming Sming Books, September 2026

50 YEARS of ART PAPERS, 1976–2026 (co-editor)
Edited by Sarah Higgins and co-editor Re’al Christian
ART PAPERS, Fall 2026

Ignacio Gatica Interviewed by Re’al Christian
BOMB, August 2026

Danae Io’s Recording Angel in e-flux Index #9
e-flux, 2026 (originally published by e-flux Criticism, July 2025)

Carole Harris
All That Sustains Us: Medina Triennial 2026 Guidebook
Medina Triennial, 2026

Jane Jin Kaisen
All That Sustains Us: Medina Triennial 2026 Guidebook
Medina Triennial, 2026

Dionne Lee
All That Sustains Us: Medina Triennial 2026 Guidebook
Medina Triennial, 2026

Finnegan Shannon
All That Sustains Us: Medina Triennial 2026 Guidebook
Medina Triennial, 2026

Jean Shin
All That Sustains Us: Medina Triennial 2026 Guidebook
Medina Triennial, 2026

The Far-off Elsewhere: Exhibiting Pan-Africanism
ART PAPERS, Spring 2026

2025


Best Art Books of 2025: Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal
The Brooklyn Rail, December 2025

A Year in Reading with Re'al Christian
Rabkin Foundation, December 2025

Essay for Abigail DeVille: the heart knows its own bitterness (Manifest)
Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, 2025
Originally published in Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, 2025

Revolt (v.)(n.)
ART PAPERS, Horror After Horror, Fall 2025

Editors’ Letter: Horror After Horror
ART PAPERS, Fall 2025, co-written with Sarah Higgins

Danae Io’s Recording Angel at Akwa Ibom, Athens
e-flux Criticism, July 2025

Power | Play: Interview with Alex Tatarsky
ART PAPERS, Summer 2025

As Flight or Escape: Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1
Momus, March 2025

As for Protocols (co-editor)
Edited with an introduction by Re’al Christian, Carin Kuoni, and Eriola Pira
Amherst College Press / Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2025

Acts of Art in Greenwich Village (co-editor)
Edited by Howard Singerman with Re’al Christian and Katie Hood Morgan
Hunter College Art Galleries + Hirmer Verlag, 2025

Abigail DeVille in Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home
Monacelli Press + Prospect New Orleans, 2025

2024


Best Art Books of 2024: ’Om (Mother)
The Brooklyn Rail, December 2024

Dark Study: on Emily Jacir, Forensic Architecture, and fugitive documentary
ART PAPERS: Documentary After Truth, Fall 2024

The Postmodern in Parallax: On “The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Time-Cone” by Raqs Media Collective
MUBI Notebook, July 23, 2024

Cecilia Vicuña’s Deer Book
The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2024

Tiffany Sia Interviewed by Re’al Christian
BOMB, July 2024

Jeffrey Meris: Cosmic Bodies in And ever an edge: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2022–23
Studio Museum in Harlem, 2024

2023


Best Art Books of 2023: Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans
The Brooklyn Rail, December 2023

All Visible Directions: Maria Hupfield and Natalie Diaz in Breaking Protocol
Inventory Press + Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2023

Slip, Loop, Retreat: On the Architectures of Confinement
MOVEMENTS, Brown Arts Institute, Volume 1: Dissonance, October 2023

RAW, Kunst im Tunnel
Artforum, September 2023

Trinh T. Minh-ha: The Twofold Commitment
The Brooklyn Rail, September 2023

Writing in Relation in Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism
Paper Monument, 2023

On Reworlding and Mediated Rupture in The World Is Before You
Feat. Francisco echo Eraso, Willa Goettling, Maya Jeffereis,
Gabrielle Ondine Mertz, Dario Mohr, and Carrie Sijia Wang
EFA Project Space, August 2023

Exhibition + publication: Repetition means a/void (curator)
Feat. Amra Causevic and Simón Ramirez
Parent Company, June 22 – July 29, 2023

Essay for the rain from dreams or from breaths, with Sara Jimenez
Rachel Uffner Gallery, 2023

Tania Pérez Córdova, Generalización, Museo Tamayo
Frieze Magazine, February 2023

2022


10 Best Art Books of 2022: Tender Noted by Shala Miller
The Brooklyn Rail, December 2022

Maria Toumazou, RHYTHM, CITIZEN, Grazer Kunstverein
Artforum, November 22, 2022

Hito Steyerl, Animal Spirits, Kunsthaus Graz
Camera Austria, 160, 2022

On Becoming in Nested in a Place of Becoming: Adler Guerrier and Levani
Marisa Newman Projects + Kunsthalle Tbilisi, 2022

Surface Tension in Howardena Pindell: Numbers/Pathways/Grids
Exhibition catalogue for Howardena Pindell
Dieu Donné + Garth Greenan Gallery, 2022

Unbecoming Human: Interview with TJ Shin
ART PAPERS: Embodied Knowledge, Fall 2022

Refusing the Here-now: An Afrofuturist Period Room and Black Fugitivity in the Undercommons
ART PAPERS: New Commons, Summer 2022

Going to the Field: Kevin Quiles Bonilla Interviewed by Re’al Christian
BOMB, June 2022

The earth leaked red ochre: Artist Conversations
Miriam Gallery, May 2022

Introduction, The earth leaked red ochre
Miriam Gallery, 2022

On the Town: A Performa Compendium 2016–2021
Essays on Chemical Gilding… by Chou Yu-Cheng, The White Waters by Su Hui-Yu,
and Sènsa by Paul Maheke, Nkisi, and Ariel Efraim Ashbel
Ed. Charles Aubin
Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2022

Essay for Miko Veldkamp: Ghost Stories
Workplace Gallery, London, UK, January 2022

2021


20 Best Art Books of 2021: all i wanted was to get into heaven by Gi (Ginny) Huo
The Brooklyn Rail, December 2021

A surrogate self, a site of memory: Firelei Báez
Hand Papermaking: Call and Respond, Winter 2021

Back to the Center, in Katia Santibañez: Lumens Anima
DC Moore Gallery, 2021

Between a Body, a City, a Mountain: Sara Jimenez Interviewed by Re’al Christian
BOMB, November 2021

Connection of Three Spaces, in Life as Activity: David Lamelas
Edited by Harper Montgomery
Hunter College Art Galleries + Hirmer Verlag, 2021

The Silence We Hold Between Our Bodies: Interview with Kenneth Tam
ART PAPERS: Speculative Masculinities, Summer 2021

Whose Histories Should Be Commemorated?: Kehinde Wiley's Rumors of War
Phillips, June 2021

Contributor, The Black Index
Feat. Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle,
Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas
Edited by Bridget R. Cooks & Sarah Watson
Hunter College Art Galleries + Hirmer Verlag, 2021

An essay for In the Wake
Hunter College MFA Thesis Show
Feat. Simon Benjamin, Mew Filsinger, Rocío Guerrero Marin, Polina Tereshina, and Miko Veldkamp
205 Hudson Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries, May 2021

Thoughts on a line, in Zipora Fried
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., May 2021

Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
The Brooklyn Rail, April 2021

2020


20 Best Art Books of 2020: Colored People Time
The Brooklyn Rail, December 2020

A Living Presence + and the body, Felix, where is it?, with danilo machado
ART PAPERS: Monumental Interventions, Fall/Winter 2020

Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
The Brooklyn Rail, November 2020

E ho’o kama’āina: Kimi Howl Lee’s “Kama’āina (child of the land)”
Big Window, October 2020

POWER/PLAY, in Myeongsoo Kim: Mother-Land
CUE Art Foundation, October 2020

Language, Use, Value: Interview with Chang Yuchen
ART PAPERS: Living & Working, Summer 2020

The Moment is Not Sufficient
ART PAPERS: Art of the New Civil Rights Era, Spring 2020

dispersed holdings’s Speed of Resin
The Brooklyn Rail, March 2020

Robert Rauschenberg’s Sugar Bags (Urban Bourbon), 1993
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation + Hunter College, February 2020

2019


A Study in Light: New Prints by Chris Ofili
Art in Print, November/December 2019

Keunmin Lee at Shin Gallery
Art in America, November 2019

An Unavoidable Gaze: Amy Sherald: “the heart of the matter…”
BOMB, October 2019

Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture
Art in Print, May/June 2019

New Editions 2019: Jacob Hashimoto
Art in Print, March/April 2019

New Editions 2019: Stanley Whitney
Art in Print, March/April 2019

New Editions 2019: Lisa Wright
Art in Print, March/April 2019

Sue Coe’s Brute Forces
Art in Print, January/February 2019

2018


Julia Phillips: Failure Detection
ART PAPERS, Fall 2018

Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965–2016 at MoMA
ART PAPERS, Summer 2018

Judy Chicago's PowerPlay at Salon 94 Bowery
Art in America, May 2018

Odili Donald Odita at Jack Shainman Gallery
Art in America, March 2018

2017


Opener 30: Njideka Akunyili Crosby at the Tang Teaching Museum
Studio Magazine, The Studio Museum in Harlem, December 2017

Assumed Identity in the Public Sphere: Causality & Consequences in the 2016 Election
The Dialectics: Journal of Law, Leadership, and Society, Pennsylvania State University, September 2017

We Want a Revolution: Black Women Artists at the Brooklyn Museum
Artefuse, August 2017

2016


Breaking All the Rules with Charlotte Moorman
Art Versed, December 2016

Diane Arbus Takes the Met Breuer
Art Versed, August 2016

When Painting Meets Sculpture: Thornton Dial
Art Versed, June 2016

Visualizing the Invisible: Works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Art Versed, June 2016

Triumphs & Tragedies: Louise Bourgeois at the National Gallery
Art Versed, May 2016

Artists’ Books at the National Museum of African Art
Art Versed, April 2016

Glenn Ligon at Luhring Augustine
Art Versed, March 2016


Residencies, Grants & Fellowships


Research and Development Grant: Social Aesthetics Across the African Atlantic
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 2026

Greece in USA: Library Residency
Athens, Greece, Spring 2025

Mudhouse Residency: Writing Residency and Fellowship
Agios Ionnis, Crete, Summer 2024

Verein K: Visiting Critics Vienna
Vienna and Graz, Fall 2022

Hunter College Art Galleries: Lazarus Curatorial Fellowship
New York, Fall 2019 – Spring 2022

CUE Art Foundation: Art Critic Mentorship Program
New York, Spring/Summer 2020

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