CASSIE PACKARD

... is a Brooklyn-based art writer and editor.

<sup>Packard is a writer with bylines 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 has contributed to volumes published by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Dais Books, GRIMM, Karma, Miles McEnery Gallery, and Viaindustriae, and she is the author of Art Rules (Frances Lincoln, 2023) (“a vibrant tribute to endlessly varied frameworks of ‘making and being’” – Publishers Weekly). Packard is a recipient of the 2024 Rabkin Prize for art writing, and has held fellowships at Momus, Recess, and the Art & Law Program.

She has been a guest lecturer/visiting critic at institutions including Brandeis University, Brown University, Columbia University, the Fine Arts Work Center, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, The New School, the New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation, New York University, NYC Crit Club, Parsons School of Design, and School of Visual Arts, as well as a panelist/moderator at Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Flag Art Foundation, Horasis, the National Arts Club, The New Social Environment, and Rutgers University. Her writing has been cited in books published by Cambridge University Press, NYU Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Springer Publishing, University of Pittsburgh Press, and Wiley, among others.

Packard previously held the roles of Oral Historian at Eyebeam and Researcher at Hauser & Wirth. She has an MA (Merit) in Art History from University College London and a BA (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
-‘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
-Mirror Images: The Critical Consciousness of Joan Jonas, ArtReview
-Pippa Garner: ‘I Could Never Get Enough Pussy So I Built One In’, ArtReview
-The Digital Media Experiments of Auriea Harvey, frieze
-Direct Action: Carmen Winant’s Lessons in Looking, Artforum
-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 CATALOG ESSAYS & FEATURES

-Openings: Jes Fan, Artforum
-Revisiting a Landmark of Lesbian Photography, Artforum
-Knotted Lives, The Brooklyn Rail
-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, Robert Duran 1974–1979, Karma (catalog essay; reprinted by Independent)
-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)
-How Does The FBI Art Crime Team Operate?, Hyperallergic
-Sung Tieu: Not Fracking Around, ArtReview
-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