About

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a writer and critic. She is the author of two books, Etel Adnan and Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War, and her criticism has appeared in 4Columns, Afterall, Aperture, Artforum, Art Journal, ARTMargins, Bookforum, Camera Austria, E-Flux Criticism, Flash Art, Frieze, Manazir, MIRAJ, Mousse, The New York Times, Parkett, The Public Review, Sight+Sound, The Times of London, and The Village Voice, among other publications. Wilson-Goldie was a practitioner-in-residence at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies in 2022. She received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2013. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Columbia University, and the American University of Beirut, she has taught courses in criticism and contemporary art at several universities and art schools including Beirut’s Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, New York’s School of Visual Arts, and HEAD-Genève.