Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a writer and critic and the author of Etel Adnan (2018), on the paintings of the Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan, and Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War (2022), about the work of Amar Kanwar, Teresa Margolles, and the anonymous film collective Abounaddara. Wilson-Goldie has written for Artforum, Frieze, Aperture, Mousse, Bookforum, Afterall, Parkett, 4Columns, E-Flux Criticism, Art Journal, ARTMargins, The Village Voice, and The New York Times, among other publications. Since 2013, she has taught courses in criticism and contemporary art at the American University of Beirut, the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Wilson-Goldie is currently a PhD candidate in art history and criticism at Stony Brook University (SUNY Stony Brook), where her research focuses on ideas of modernism, feminism, and decolonization in the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on the work of groundbreaking but understudied women artists and the importance of cities such as Beirut, Cairo, and Algiers as major centers of art, culture, and political thought.

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