Jennifer Krasinski

is a writer and cultural critic who has contributed to 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, the New Yorker (Goings On), the New York Review of Books, and other publications. She is the co-author with David O’Neill of The Craft of Cultural Criticism: Writing About the Arts and Why It Matters, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press as part of its Chicago Guides to Writing, Publishing, and Editing series.

Her essays have been published in numerous books and catalogs including Reza Abdoh (Hatje Cantz), Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic (Sternberg Press), Andy Warhol: The Series by Hilton Als (Triple Canopy), Summer Wheat: Forager (Rizzoli), Verne Dawson: To hear a story to its end (Karma Books), Richard Foreman: No Title (Christine Burgin, Further Reading Library), and more.

Formerly an art critic at the Village Voice (2014–2018), and a Senior Editor at Artforum (2018–2022), she also served as the latter’s Digital Editorial Director, launching their video series Artists On Writers, (a collaboration with Bookforum) and Under the Cover. She was on faculty in the MA Art Writing department at the School of Visual Arts (2013–2021), and has taught at Art Center College of Design, Lesley Art & Design, New York University, Yale University, and elsewhere.

She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2012), a MacDowell fellowship (2024), an Amant Studio and Research Residency in Siena (2025), and a Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva (2026).

She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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