CASSIE PACKARD
Cassie Packard is a New York-based art writer and a reviews editor at frieze.
Packard’s writing is featured in publications including Artforum, ArtReview, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Cultured, e-flux, Financial Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and frieze. She is a recipient of the 2024 Rabkin Prize for art writing and the author of Art Rules (Frances Lincoln, 2023 (UK); Eyrolles, 2024 (FR); China Textile Publishing House Co., 2024 (CN)).
Packard has contributed to volumes published by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Dais Books, GRIMM, Karma, Miles McEnery Gallery, MSU Broad Art Museum, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the New Jersey State Museum, and Viaindustriae. She has been awarded fellowships at The Art & Law Program, Momus, and Recess.
She is a frequent guest lecturer/visiting critic at universities and artist residencies, including Brandeis University, Brown University, Columbia University, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, International Studio & Curatorial Program, The New School, the New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation, New York University, and School of Visual Arts.
Previously, she was an oral Historian at Eyebeam and a researcher at Hauser & Wirth. She holds an MA with merit in art history from University College London and a BA with honors in art history from Brown University.
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Portrait by Kevin J. Miyazaki
SELECT REVIEWS
-Jessi Reaves at Bridget Donahue, Artforum
-Jessica Segall’s Human Energy, e-flux
-Ohan Breiding Mourns Glacial Bodies, frieze
-Eileen Myles’s Pathetic Literature, The Brooklyn Rail
-Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, Artforum
-Sable Elyse Smith’s Opera Inhabits the Storm, frieze
-‘Time’s Passage, Indexed in Rubber’: On Eva Hesse’s ‘Five Sculptures’, frieze
-Shigeko Kubota at MoMA, Artforum
-Carl Cheng Makes Art for the Anthropocene, frieze
-Mythologies of a Green Petrostate: Liv Bugge’s ‘Umbilical Fire’, frieze
-Mirror Images: The Critical Consciousness of Joan Jonas, ArtReview
-Raphaela Vogel: In The Expanded Penalty Box, The Brooklyn Rail
-Whose Interests Does AI Serve?, ArtReview
-David Wojnarowicz Brings Us Closer to His Real Persona, frieze
-Direct Action: Carmen Winant’s Lessons in Looking, Artforum
-On Radical Dance: Yvonne Rainer and Simone Forti, Los Angeles Review of Books
-Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Significant Otherness, The Brooklyn Rail
-Pippa Garner: ‘I Could Never Get Enough Pussy So I Built One In’, ArtReview
-The Digital Media Experiments of Auriea Harvey, frieze
-Sophia Giovannitti’s Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, The Brooklyn Rail
-Unfiguring the Siren of Greek Mythology, frieze
-Losing Ourselves in Liz Larner’s Shapeshifting Sculpture, Hyperallergic
-Dewey Crumpler: Post-Atlantic, The Brooklyn Rail
-Gerda Wegener at Planting Fields Foundation, Artforum
-Schema: World as Diagram, The Brooklyn Rail
-Leonor Fini at Kasmin, Artforum
-Lynn Hershman Leeson In All Her Cyborg Glory, Hyperallergic
-The Erotic Affinities between Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke, frieze
-Nöle Giulini’s Alchemical Artworks, Art in America
-Tiffany Sia’s On and Off-Screen Imaginaries, The Brooklyn Rail
SELECT INTERVIEWS & PROFILES
-Openings: Jes Fan, Artforum
-Ayoung Kim Breaks the Clock, frieze
-Aki Sasamoto Wants to Flip Your Worldview, frieze
-Henrike Naumann: The Conspiracy in Your Living Room, Artforum
-Mire Lee on the Cannibalistic Imagination, Artforum
-Alison Nguyen Journeys Through Digital Realms, frieze
-Naama Tsabar: Play with Me, ArtReview
-Azza El Siddique Interviewed, BOMB
-Weather and Wordplay: Yto Barrada Interviewed, BOMB
-Gallerist Ales Ortuzar: ‘I wanted to break the echo chamber’, Financial Times
-Fiction as a Space for Processing: Megan Milks Interviewed, BOMB
-Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork Dials Down The Noise, frieze
-Stephanie LaCava on Art World Seduction and Survival, Interview
-Jenna Sutela Interviewed, BOMB
-Frieze Frame’s Sophie Mörner, Financial Times
-Pacifico Silano Interviewed, BOMB
-Blurring the Lines Between Public and Private: Salmon Toor Interviewed, BOMB
-Karla Knight on Living with the Unknown, Artforum
-All Pleasures Fulfilled: Samantha Nye Interviewed, BOMB
-Open to Possibility: Jesse Wine Interviewed, BOMB
-Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s Chronicle of US Artist Protest, frieze
-Critique and Care: Sheida Soleimani Interviewed, BOMB
-Barnett Cohen Interviewed, BOMB
-Representing Connection: LJ Roberts Interviewed, BOMB
-Silverlens gallery offers stateside visibility to south-east Asian artists, Financial Times
-The Heart Has Its Own Intelligence, Ursula
-Reciprocating Gaze: Jordan Casteel Interviewed, BOMB
-From the Studio with Begoo Collective, Eyebeam
-From the Studio with Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Eyebeam
-Dan Hicks on the Benin Bronzes and Ultraviolence of World Culture Museums, Hyperallergic
-Mungo Thomson Interviewed, BOMB
SELECT FEATURES & ESSAYS
-Earth Intruders: The Artists Embracing Queer Ecology, frieze (republished in Histórias da Ecologia: Antologia, Museu de Arte de São Paulo)
-Various Possible Histories, Diana Al-Hadid: unbecoming, MSU Broad Art Museum with Kasmin (catalogue essay)
-Knotted Lives, The Brooklyn Rail
-The Prospects of Painting: Robert Duran’s New York Years, in Robert Duran 1974–1979, Karma (catalogue essay; republished in Robert Duran, New Jersey State Museum)
-Machine-Body Intimacies: Mire Lee’s Open Wound, Artlab Editorial
-A Trigger For Thinking, Sheida Soleimani: Medium of Exchange, Dais Books (catalogue essay; republished in Brown University’s MOVEMENTS Journal)
-Revisiting a Landmark of Lesbian Photography, Artforum
-Sung Tieu: Not Fracking Around, ArtReview
-Donna Haraway’s Children, Cultured
-All Channels Received, Karla Knight: Navigator, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (catalogue essay)
-No Escape From Techno Junk, ArtReview
-A Plastic Bucket in the Woods, Alexander Ross, Miles McEnery Gallery (catalogue essay)
-Factory Dance, Blau International
-Plastic Tenderness, Interspecies Kin, Viaindustriae (book chapter)
-Angela Heisch and Abstraction’s Generosities, As above, so below, GRIMM (catalogue essay)
-Andy Warhol and a Year in Copyright, frieze
-How Does The FBI Art Crime Team Operate?, Hyperallergic
-Bodies of Work, Boston Art Review
-State of the Art, Eyebeam
-Itziar Barrio: Robota MML, Susie G. Projects (exhibition text)
-Sara Stern: sand plays itself, Essex Flowers (exhibition text)
-A Common Thread, Recess (exhibition text)
-On ‘Regards to the End’, Emily Wells (album liner)
-The History of Aura Photography, Artsy