CASSIE PACKARD
is a Brooklyn-based art writer and editor.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, where she is a reviews editor. She is a recipient of the 2024 Rabkin Prize for art writing and has been awarded fellowships at The Art & Law Program, Momus, and Recess. She has contributed to volumes published by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Dais Books, GRIMM, Karma, Miles McEnery Gallery, the New Jersey State Museum, and Viaindustriae, and she is the author of Art Rules (Frances Lincoln, 2023; Eyrolles, 2024).
She is a frequent guest lecturer/visiting critic at universities and artist residencies, including Brandeis University, Brown University, Columbia University, the Fine Arts Work Center, The New School, the New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation, New York University, Parsons School of Design, and School of Visual Arts. Previously, she was an Oral Historian at Eyebeam and a Researcher at Hauser & Wirth. She holds an M.A. with merit in art history from University College London and a B.A. with honors in art history from Brown University.
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SELECT REVIEWS
-Jessi Reaves at Bridget Donahue, Artforum
-Jessica Segall’s Human Energy, e-flux
-Eileen Myles’s Pathetic Literature, The Brooklyn Rail
-Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, Artforum
-Direct Action: Carmen Winant’s Lessons in Looking, Artforum
-Mirror Images: The Critical Consciousness of Joan Jonas, ArtReview
-‘Time’s Passage, Indexed in Rubber’: On Eva Hesse’s ‘Five Sculptures’, frieze
-Shigeko Kubota at MoMA, Artforum
-Raphaela Vogel: In The Expanded Penalty Box: Did You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Fox?, 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
-Sable Elyse Smith’s Opera Inhabits the Storm, frieze
-Whose Interests Does AI Serve?, ArtReview
-On Radical Dance: Yvonne Rainer and Simone Forti, Los Angeles Review of Books
-Nöle Giulini’s Alchemical Artworks, Art in America
-Unfiguring the Siren of Greek Mythology, frieze
-Leonor Fini at Kasmin, Artforum
-Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s–2020s, Artforum
-Losing Ourselves in Liz Larner’s Shapeshifting Sculpture, Hyperallergic
-Sophia Giovannitti’s Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, The Brooklyn Rail
-Dewey Crumpler: Post-Atlantic, The Brooklyn Rail
-Gerda Wegener at Planting Fields Foundation, Artforum
-Gala Porras-Kim at Amant, Artforum
-Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Significant Otherness, The Brooklyn Rail
-Schema: World as Diagram, The Brooklyn Rail
-Lynn Hershman Leeson In All Her Cyborg Glory, Hyperallergic
-The Erotic Affinities between Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke, frieze
SELECT INTERVIEWS & PROFILES
-Aki Sasamoto Wants to Flip Your Worldview, frieze
-Alison Nguyen Journeys Through Digital Realms, frieze
-Henrike Naumann: The Conspiracy in Your Living Room, Artforum
-Mire Lee on the Cannibalistic Imagination, Artforum
-Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork Dials Down The Noise, frieze
-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
-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
-Representing Connection: LJ Roberts Interviewed, BOMB
-Barnett Cohen Interviewed, BOMB
-Critique and Care: Sheida Soleimani Interviewed, BOMB
-Paul Kasmin, Pioneering Gallerist and Champion of Chelsea Art Scene, Architectural Digest
-Silverlens gallery offers stateside visibility to south-east Asian artists, Financial Times
-All Pleasures Fulfilled: Samantha Nye Interviewed, BOMB
-Moyra Davey: Solitude in Isolation, Bookforum
-The Pathos Collector: An Outsider’s Mission Moves Inside, Ursula
-Reciprocating Gaze: Jordan Casteel Interviewed, BOMB
-Open to Possibility: Jesse Wine Interviewed, BOMB
-In the Studio with Begoo Collective, Eyebeam
-Dan Hicks on the Benin Bronzes and Ultraviolence of World Culture Museums, Hyperallergic
-Mungo Thomson Interviewed, BOMB
SELECT FEATURES & ESSAYS
-Openings: Jes Fan, Artforum
-Revisiting a Landmark of Lesbian Photography, Artforum
-Knotted Lives, The Brooklyn Rail
-Sung Tieu: Not Fracking Around, ArtReview
-How Does The FBI Art Crime Team Operate?, Hyperallergic
-All Channels Received: On Recent Work by Karla Knight, Karla Knight: Navigator, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (catalog essay)
-Plastic Tenderness, Interspecies Kin, Viaindustriae (catalog essay)
-The Prospects of Painting: Robert Duran’s New York Years, in Robert Duran 1974–1979, Karma and Robert Duran, New Jersey State Museum (catalog essay; reprinted)
-A Plastic Bucket in the Woods: On the Work of Alexander Ross, Alexander Ross, Miles McEnery Gallery (catalog essay)
-A Trigger For Thinking, Sheida Soleimani: Medium of Exchange, Dais Books (catalog essay; reprinted by Movements Journal)
-Angela Heisch and Abstraction’s Generosities, As above, so below, GRIMM (catalog essay)
-Itziar Barrio: Robota MML, Susie G. Projects (exhibition text)
-Sara Stern: sand plays itself, Essex Flowers (exhibition text)
-Esther Pearl Watson: Guardian of Eden, Andrew Edlin Gallery (exhibition text)
-A Common Thread, Recess (exhibition text)
-On Regards to the End, Emily Wells (album liner)
-Andy Warhol and a Year in Copyright, frieze
-Donna Haraway’s Children, Cultured
-Naama Tsabar: Play with Me, ArtReview
-Luna Luna, long-forgotten art amusement park, is revived, Financial Times
-No Escape From Techno Junk, ArtReview
-State of the Art, Eyebeam
-Factory Dance, Blau International
-Key Performance Indicators, frieze
-Monsters Exist Because We Create Them: Turning to Leon Golub in a Time of Crisis, Ursula
-The Colorful and Clairvoyant History of Aura Photography, Artsy