Contributors

Paige K. B. is an artist, writer, and erstwhile editor from Los Angeles. She has been an editor at Artforum and Garage, and her writing has been published in numerous magazines and books since 2013. Her recent exhibitions include an illegal installation at 13 East 31st Street and a legal one at the Canal Street Research Association, a space run by the group Shanzhai Lyric. She is currently assembling a body of work for Documenta 13.  

KADIST believes contemporary artists make an important contribution to a progressive society, their work addressing key issues of our time. A non-profit organization dedicated to exhibiting the work of artists represented in its collection, KADIST encourages this engagement and advocates for the relevance of contemporary art in our lives. Its programs develop collaborations with artists, curators and art organizations around the world, facilitating new connections across cultures. Local programs in KADIST’s hubs of Paris and San Francisco include exhibitions, public events, residencies and educational initiatives. Complemented by an active online network, they create vibrant conversations about contemporary art and ideas. Website

Howie Kahn has written for GQ and the New York Times, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn. Website

Craig Kalpakjian is an artist living in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited extensively in the US and abroad. His most recent solo show took place at the Baukunst Galerie in Cologne, Germany, in the summer of 2007. Website

Rebecca Karl  

Dana Kash enjoys bright colors and white noise. Website

Jacob Kassay  

Angie Keefer is co-founder of The Serving Library, with David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey, a nonprofit artists' organization rooted in a body of work initiated by Dexter Sinister’s publication Dot Dot Dot, and dedicated to publishing and archiving in a continuous loop.  

Matt Keegan is an artist who lives and works in New York. He was the co-founding editor of North Drive Press (2003–2010), and is the co-founder of the forthcoming magazine ==, along with Susan Barber. An exhibition of Keegan's work is currently on view at D'Amelio Terras.  

Thomas Keenan is director of the Bard Human Rights Project.  

John Keene ’s most recent books include the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions, 2015), which received a 2016 American Book Award, a 2016 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and in March 2017 the UK’s inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize; the art book GRIND (ITI Press, 2016), an art-text collaboration with photographer Nicholas Muellner; and the poetry chapbook Playland (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016). He is also the translator of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboat Books / A Bolha Editora, 2014), and other works of fiction and poetry. He chairs the department of African American and African Studies, and also teaches English and creative writing at Rutgers University–Newark.  

Thad Kellstadt  

Seth Kelly is an artist and curator. His artwork includes drawings, collages, sculptures, videos, and installations; recently he has also been giving performative lectures. Since receiving his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, Kelly has exhibited extensively in New York, at venues such as Artists Space and PS1. Website

Devin Kenny is an artist living in Houston. Born in 1987 and online since childhood, he has witnessed the shift from web 1.0 to the “social internet” of web 2.0 to today’s paradigm. His work is colored by this transition. Using sculpture, video, photography, text, performance, music, and painting, his practice engages questions of identity construction and the aesthetics developed in networks: from quilt codes allegedly used on the Underground Railroad to memes and viral media. Raised on the south side of Chicago, Kenny relocated to New York to study at Cooper Union. He has participated in the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the summer program at SOMA in Mexico City, the Whitney Independent Study Program, and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His performances have been presented at art and music venues in the United States and internationally, including Biquini Wax (Mexico City), Artspace Auckland, REDCAT (Los Angeles), MoMA PS1 (New York City), the Julia Stoschek Collection (Berlin), and the Glue Factory (Glasgow).  

Peter Kenny is Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts and Administrator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A member of the curatorial staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1989, Peter Kenny writes and lectures extensively on American colonial and federal period furniture and craftsmen.  

Caitlin Keogh  

Peter Kerlin is a musician/artist/educator from Brooklyn. His ongoing musical projects include Minetta, Source of Yellow, Chris Forsyth's Ideal Heads, and Christmas Decorations. He is an adjunct professor in the Electronic Design and Multimedia Department at the City College of New York. Website

Theodore Kerr is a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based writer, artist, and organizer whose work focuses primarily on HIV/AIDS. He is a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? Kerr earned his MA from Union Theological Seminary where he researched Christian Ethics and HIV. He teaches at The New School. Website

Jon Kessler is an artist living in New York. He teaches at Columbia's School of the Arts and plays guitar in the X-Patsys, the band he formed with Barbara Sukowa and Robert Longo. Website

Sarah Kessler is a media scholar and television critic who teaches in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Her book project, Anachronism Effects, focuses on the cultural politics of voice and ventriloquism in transatlantic popular culture. Website

Bo-Won Keum is a graphic designer who lives in New York. She is the associate designer at Triple Canopy. Website

Adam Khalil , a member of the Ojibway tribe, is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Khalil is a core contributor to the group New Red Order and a cofounder of COUSINS Collective. Khalil’s work has been exhibited and screened at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), Sundance Film Festival, Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), Lincoln Center (New York City), Tate Modern (London), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Toronto Biennial, and Whitney Biennial. Khalil is the recipient of fellowships and grants including the Creative Capital Award, Herb Alpert Award, Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellowship, Jerome Artist Fellowship, and Gates Millennium Scholarship.  

Nora Khan writes fiction and creative non-fiction about digital visual culture, artificial intelligence, electronic music, and games. Her writing has been published in 4Columns, Art in America, the California Sunday Magazine, the Village Voice, Rhizome, aCCeSsions, Conjunctions, and American Literary Review. Her criticism won a Thoma Foundation 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, awarded by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. Khan is a contributing editor at Rhizome and a research resident at Eyebeam. Website

Hassan Khan is an artist, musician, and writer based in Cairo. Website

Murad Khan Mumtaz is an artist currently based in Lahore, Pakistan, where he is an assistant professor at the National College of Art. He graduated from Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship in 2010. He is represented by Tracy Williams Ltd. in New York. Website

Parag Khanna  

David Kim is a JD candidate at Yale Law School, where he is the curator of JUNCTURE, an initiative devoted to art and human rights. He collaborates with Council, a curatorial platform based in Paris. He has recently written about the work of the artist Jill Magid in The Proposal (Sternberg Press). Prior to law school, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Harvard University.  

Soo Kim is an artist based in Los Angeles. She is a Professor, Program Director, and Coordinator of the Critic in Residence program at Otis College of Art and Design. Website

Willis Kingery is a graphic designer based in New Haven. He is currently an MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art.  

KinoSaito is an art center in Verplanck, New York, that is rooted in the creation and practice of abstract art and committed to nurturing experimentation in every form and medium. By engaging artist and audience, painting and performance, learning and play, KinoSaito honors the spirit of its founding muse, Kikuo Saito, and furthers his vision for an interdisciplinary art of making and moving, free of borders and definitions. Website

Jacob Kirkegaard is a Berlin-based Danish artist who focuses on the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound, and hearing. His installations, compositions, and performances deal with acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain imperceptible. He has presented his works at exhibitions and festivals around the world and has released five albums (mostly on the British label Touch). He is also a member of the sound-art collective freq_out. Website

Katie Kitamura is the author of the novels Intimacies (2021), which was on the long list for the National Book Award and named one of the top ten books of the year by the New York Times; A Separation (2017), which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori, and The Longshot (2009) and Gone to the Forest (2013), which were finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Kitamura is the recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University. Her previous contributions to Triple Canopy include “LANGUAGE Inc.,” a leaked document that reveals the corporate privatization of public speech, and “Les Fleurs du terminal,” a reflection on Headless, the Goldin+Senneby murder-mystery. Website

Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novels Something New Under the Sun (2021) and You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (2015), as well as the short-story collection Intimations (2016). She is the recipient of the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, and her essays have appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, n+1, and the Guardian. Website

Molly Kleiman is Triple Canopy’s director, co-director of the Back Room, and part-time faculty at New York University’s Gallatin School. Website

Ish Klein is the author of the poetry books Moving Day (2011) and Union! (2009), published by Canarium Books. She lives in Amherst with Greg Purcell, where they produce a poetry podcast called Noslander. A compilation of her videos, entitled Success Window, has been released by Poor Claudia of Portland, Oregon. Website

Josh Kline had his first solo gallery exhibition at 47Canal in 2011. In 2014, his work “Skittles” was displayed along the High Line. In 2015, his installation “Freedom” was included in the New Museum Triennial, Surround Audience. In this work, Teletubbies stand in SWAT gear while a computerized version of Barack ’s 2008 Presidential inaugural address is played. The work gained widespread attention and acclaim from the press. In 2015, his piece “Cost of Living (Aleyda)” was included in America is Hard to See, the opening exhibition of the new Whitney Museum, which was composed entirely of works from the permanent collection.  

Jenni Knight likes to make messes with tactile ease in a gritty corner of the world. Don’t deny them their beauty! They try hard like arabesques. She is also an artist immersed in low-fidelity media, including lots of crap with peering eyes like hers that calls out from the street. Website

Melanie Claire Koch is the founder and editor in chief of the online arts & culture magazine Beekiller. She lives in New York and enjoys gothic novels, 1970s Italian horror films, sea monsters, and strange discoveries. Website

Wayne Koestenbaum has published thirteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Humiliation, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Hotel Theory, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen's Throat.  He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Website

Lara Kohl is an interdisciplinary artist leading a transdisciplinary life in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown in galleries in the US and abroad. She teaches at Pratt Institute. Website

Anjuli Raza Kolb is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Williams College, where she teaches courses on colonial and postcolonial literature and theory. Her current book project, “Epidemics of Terror,” reconstructs the long-standing relationship between narratives and epistemologies of public health and the literature and discourse of anticolonial insurgency and terror from the late nineteenth century to the present.  

Jaffer Kolb is a New York-based designer and lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. His work is dedicated to finding new sites for architecture in political and material economies through experiments in preservation and form. Most recently, he was the 2015 Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan, and before that worked as a designer in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. His work has appeared in exhibitions internationally, and published in Wired, Blueprint, and Abitare, among others. In the past, he worked as a curator as well as a critic for a range of international publications.  

Peter Kolovos Website

Ann Komaromi  

Bill Kouligas is a Berlin-based sound artist and graphic designer. He has worked with Sudden Infant, Ralf Wehowsky, and Damo Suzuki, among others. He manages the electroacoustic noise label PAN, which will release a triple-LP set of the soundtracks of Frans Zwartjes this fa  

Deiara Kouto is a designer and researcher. She was born in the Italian part of Switzerland to Togolese and Ghanaian parents. She has been involved in several self-initiated projects and worked for various studios, including Filipp Mambretti Studio and Christophe Guberan Studio. For the 2019 Zurich Design Biennale, Kouto developed a parkour project for children with motor disabilities. She is currently studying approaches to the decolonization of the practice and teaching of design at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule. Concurrently, she is writing about the subject and working with Xartsplitter, an organization that resists racism and sexism.  

Jennifer Krasinski is a writer, critic and a senior editor at Artforum.  

Prem Krishnamurthy is a graphic designer, curator, and founding principle of New York-based design studio Project Projects. He is also the director/curator of P!, a multidisciplinary exhibition space in New York City’s Chinatown that experiments with conventions of display. Website

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi is an editor at Harper’s Magazine. Website

Barbara Kruger is a conceptual artist, designer, and writer who has been making art since the early 1960s. In 2014 Kruger's work was the subject of a major solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, and is part of several group shows at the Seattle Art Museum; Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Kruger currently resides in Los Angeles, CA where she serves on the faculty at UCLA.  

Benjamin Krusling is a writer and artist working in language, sound, and video, and the author of a book of poetry called Glaring (Wendy’s Subway, 2020).  

Annapurna Kumar is an animator and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She also works on sound design. Website

Aaron Kunin is the author of The Sore Throat and Other Poems. He lives in Los Angeles. Website

Benjamin Kunkel is a founding editor of n+1 and the author of the novel Indecision.  

Hari Kunzru is a British writer living in New York. He is the author of five novels, most recently Red Pill (2020) and White Tears (2017). His stories, articles, and essays have appeared in publications such as Wired, the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Times of India, and the New Statesman. His novels have been translated into twenty-one languages. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library, and the American Academy in Berlin. Website

Ajay Kurian is an artist living and working in New York. He is often wrestling with whatever we take for granted, insisting that things can be otherwise.  

Rachel Kushner is author of the novels The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize) and, most recently, a collection of stories called The Strange Case of Rachel K. She is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow.  

Miwon Kwon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from Princeton University. Kwon’s research and writings have engaged several disciplines including contemporary art, architecture, public art and urban studies. She was a founding coeditor and publisher of Documents, a journal of art, culture, and criticism (1992–2004), and serves on the advisory board of October. She is the author of One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (MIT Press, 2002), as well as lengthy essays on the work of many contemporary artists, including Francis Alÿs, Michael Asher, Cai Guo-Qiang, Jimmie Durham, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Barbara Kruger, Christian Marclay, Ana Mendieta, Josiah McElheny, Christian Philipp Müller, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Richard Serra, James Turrell, and Do Ho Suh. In 2012, she coorganized a major historical exhibition entitled “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,” which was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and traveled to Haus der Kunst in Münich, Germany. Website

Sowon Kwon is an artist based in New York City. She has had solo exhibitions at The Kitchen, Matrix/Berkeley Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art (Altria), and Gallery Simon in Seoul, Korea. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Los Angeles, ICA Boston, the Queens Museum, Artists Space, the Drawing Center; and internationally at Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, Venezuela, the Gwangju Biennale, the Yokohama Triennale, and San Art in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, among others. She currently teaches in the MFA programs at Parsons New School and Vermont College of Fine Arts.