Contributors

L’Rain is the moniker of the Brooklyn-based musician Taja Cheek. She released her debut, self-titled album in 2017, and Fatigue (Mexican Summer) in 2021. Her work has been praised by the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, Pitchfork, Artforum, Fader, and the Wire, among other publications. In recent years, she has played festivals around the world and toured with artists such as Animal Collective and Sharon Van Etten. Website

Kia LaBeija is an artist born and raised in New York City. Her work has been featured in Artforum, the Village Voice, VICE, and Dazed. She frequently speaks on the subject of HIV/AIDS and is an advocate for underrepresented communities—such as long-term survivors, minorities, women, and children—born with the virus. LaBeija’s works have been presented and exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Brooklyn Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Museum of the City of New York; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and La MaMa Galleria. Her first solo show, “Fear is Only a Fraction of Love,” was at Royale Projects in Los Angeles in 2018.  

Joy Ladin is the Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University, as well as the first (and still the only) openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. She has published nine books of poetry; a memoir of gender transition, the National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life; and the Lambda Literary and Triangle Award finalist The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective. She hosts the online conversation series Containing Multitudes. She serves on the board of Keshet, an organization devoted to full LGTBQ inclusion in the Jewish world. Website

Christy Lange is a Berlin-based writer and associate editor of Frieze. Website

Ingrid Langston is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts living in Brooklyn. Website

Andres Laracuente is a New York–based artist working primarily with moving image, performance, sculpture, and photography. Website

Brian Larkin is an associate professor of anthropology at Barnard College. He is the author of Signal and Noise: Media Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria (2008) and, with Lila Abu-Lughod and Faye Ginsburg, co-editor of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (2000). Larkin’s research focuses on the ethnography and history of media in Nigeria. He has published widely on issues of globalization, piracy and intellectual property, and Nigerian films (Nollywood) in such journals as Public Culture, Africa, Social Text, and Cahiers d’Études africaines. Larkin is currently working on a book, provisionally titled Secular Machines: Media and the Materiality of Islamic Revival, which analyzes the role of media in the rise of new Islamic movements in Nigeria. Website

Liz Magic Laser is a Brooklyn-based artist working primarily in video and performance. Her work plays with power and performativity. She has had solo shows at Kunstverein Göttingen (Germany), Mercer Union (Toronto), Wilfried Lentz (Rotterdam), Various Small Fires (Los Angeles), Paula Cooper Gallery (New York City), and DiverseWorks (Houston).  

John Latta wrote The Everyday in a period of one hundred days, one section per day. He is the author of Rubbing Torsos (Ithaca House, 1979) and Breeze (Notre Dame University Press, 2003). He writes regularly at Isola di Rifiuti. Website

Heidi Lau is a founding member of An/other NY and an artist who works with ceramics, drawing, video, hauntology, and Taoist traditions.  

C. Lavender is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in New Jersey. Previously working primarily with plunderphonics, she now focuses on sound and performance as a whole. Her performances vary in instrumentation, length and intensity in accordance with the way in which intuition and mood reflect the atmosphere a given space. Lavender has performed at the Voice of the Valley festival in West Virginia, the International Noise Conference in Miami, and the NY Eye & Ear Fest. Website

Louise Lawler was the subject of a recent retrospective, “Adjusted,” at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. This past summer Metro Pictures, New York presented “No Drones,” an exhibition of the artist’s most recent work. Lawler will present a solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Berlin in November. Her work will also be featured in several prominent group shows at Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg; La Panacée, Paris; Grimaldi Forum, Monaco; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde.  

Stephon Lawrence is a writer and artist, born and based in Brooklyn. She is an MFA candidate in Writing and Activisms at Pratt Institute and is co-founder and an editor of The Felt, a journal of otherworldly poetics. She has a forthcoming chapbook with Horseless Press, NERVS.  

Gil Lawson was born in San Diego in 1990. His writing has been published by n+1, The Millions, The Quietus, and Imperial Matters, among others.  

Thomas J. Lax is the associate curator of media and performance art at MoMA, a position he’s held since 2014. At the Museum, he has organized or co-organized projects including Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine, Greater New York 2015, Maria Hassabi: PLASTIC, Projects: Neïl Beloufa, and Modern Dance: Ralph Lemon, among others. He is currently working on a major project on the legacy of Judson Dance Theater. Previously he worked at the Studio Museum in Harlem for seven years, on exhibitions such as Kalup Linzy: If It Don’t Fit, VideoStudio, Fore, and When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South. Thomas writes regularly for a variety of publications and is a faculty member at the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts. He is also on the advisory committees of Contemporary And, the Laundromat Project, Recess, Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, among others. Thomas holds degrees from Brown University and Columbia University and in 2015 was awarded the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.  

Carolyn Lazard is a Philadelphia-based artist working across video, sound, sculpture, and performance. They have screened and exhibited work at Essex Street Gallery (New York City), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), the Kitchen (New York City), the New Museum (New York City), Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio), Camden Art Centre (UK), Kunsthal Aarhus (Denmark), and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). They have published writing in the Brooklyn Rail and Mousse Magazine. Website

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Fran Lebowitz is a writer whose career began as a columnist for Andy Warhol’s Interview. Public Speaking, a documentary about Lebowitz by Martin Scorsese, aired on HBO in 2010. She is the author of several books, including Metropolitan Life (1978), Social Studies (1981), The Fran Lebowitz Reader (1994), and Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas (1994).  

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is a professor at Kyung Hee University. He received an MA in philosophy from University of Warwick and a PhD in cultural theory from University of Sheffield. His publications include Theory After Althusser, Futurism, The Obscene Fantasy of Korean Culture, and Nationalism as a Sublime Object. He has been an editorial member of journals such as English Language and Literature, Journal of Theory and Criticism, Journal of Literature and Cinema, and the Gwangju Biennale’s journal, NOON. In 2013, he organized The Idea of Communism conference in Seoul with Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek and co-edited, with Žižek, The Idea of Communism 3.  

Edward Lee is a professor of law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he is the director of the Program in International Copyright Law. Lee's research focuses on the ways in which the Internet, technological development, and globalization challenge existing legal paradigms. He is the author of The Fight for the Future: How People Defeated Hollywood and Saved the Internet—For Now (2013). Website

Okkyung Lee is a New York-based artist and South Korea native. Her work blurs genre boundaries and pushes the limits of contemporary cello performance techniques. She has released more than twenty albums and, since 2010, has been developing a site-specific duo project with dancer and choreographer Michelle Boulé. Lee was awarded the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2015 and received a grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2010.  

Jessica Y Lee is a documentarian and the video producer of Triple Canopy. She is currently director of art, production and digital media at Icarus Films, web editor at Cineaste, and a freelance video producer for art institutions such as the Whitney Museum of Art. Website

Margaret Lee is an artist who, in 2009, founded the exhibition space 179 Canal, New York, which has since evolved into 47 Canal, operated in collaboration with Oliver Newton. Lee’s past curatorial projects and exhibitions have been hosted by White Columns, X-Initiative, and Performa ’09, among other venues. Her first solo show took place at Jack Hanley Gallery in 2011. This fall, her work will be included in the exhibition New Pictures of Common Objects, curated by Christopher Lew, at MoMA PS1. Website

Susanne Leeb is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she is working on a project on abstraction and the critique of modernity, and a guest professor of art history at the Art Academy in Nuremberg. She is also the co-publisher of PoLYpeN and a regular contributor to Texte zur Kunst. Website

Lynn Hershman Leeson is an artist and filmmaker who uses pioneering technologies to investigate the real and the virtual.  

Claire Lehmann is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn. Formerly an editor at Cabinet, she has contributed to catalogues for the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and publications including Artforum and Parkett. She co-curated Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New at the Museum of Modern Art, and is co-editor and co-author of a monograph on artist’s books, forthcoming from Phaidon.  

Andrew Leland is a writer, editor, and audio producer. His book about the strangeness, difficulty, and occasional joy of going blind is forthcoming from Penguin Press. He hosts and produces the Organist, an arts-and-culture podcast from KCRW and the Believer, where he is an editor. He lives in Massachusetts. Website

Ralph Lemon is a choreographer, writer, and visual artist. He currently serves as the artistic director of Cross Performance, an organization dedicated to the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation.  

Zoe Leonard is a New York–based artist who works with photography, sculpture, and installation. Recent exhibitions include those at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York; Dia at the Hispanic Society, New York; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and Documenta 12. She is co-chair of the graduate program in photography, Bard College. She has an upcoming solo show in 2012 at the Camden Arts Centre, London. Website

Chris Leong is a founding partner of Leong Leong. He received his Master of Architecture from Princeton University and his Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Berkeley. As partner at Leong Leong, he has overseen the direction of multiple mixed-use projects including the Anita May Rosenstein Campus of the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the AAFE Center for Community and Entrepreneurship. He has also served as the co-chair of the New Practices Committee at the AIA Center for Architecture. Chris is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Leong Leong is the recipient of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices Award, the AIA New York New Practices Award, and has been recognized as a Design Vanguard by Architectural Record.  

Timothy Leonido is a writer and musician who lives in New York.  

Alex Lesy is a graphic designer living in Brooklyn. He is design director at Bookforum and senior designer at Artforum. Website

Per-Oskar Leu is an artist based in Oslo. In 2013, he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has exhibited at Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt; Johan Berggren Gallery and Malmö Art Museum, Malmö; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; EVA International Biennial, Limerick; and 1/9 Unosunove, Rome, where he showed his most recent collaborative project, “Benjamin Tiven c/o Per-Oskar Leu—an alternate correspondence.” Website

David Levine is an artist and writer based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include “Some of the People, All of the Time” at the Brooklyn Museum; Light Matter at Fondation Cartier (Paris); “Bystanders” at Gallery TPW (Toronto); and Private Moment with Creative Time in New York. He won an OBIE in 2013 for his performance installation Habit and is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. His writing has appeared in n+1, Triple Canopy, Cabinet, Frieze, Parkett, and Theater. Best Behavior (53rd State Press), an anthology of his writings on theater and performance, will be published this fall, as will the artist's book A Discourse on Method (Shonni Enelow). Levine is a professor of the practice of performance, theater, and media at Harvard University. Website

Rachel Levitsky ’s first full-length volume, Under the Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003; subsequent works include Neighbor and The Story of My Accident Is Ours. She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics. Website

Bridget Lewis  

Alvin Li is a writer and contributing editor of Frieze. He is based in Shanghai, China. His writing on contemporary art and culture has appeared in Frieze, Artforum, Mousse, and Art-Agenda, among others. Li is the cofounder of CINEMQ, an unrefined, Shanghai-based queer collective known for hopping around clubs to screen curated content from around the world, with a focus on Chinese and East Asian independent queer film productions. CINEMQ also publishes weekly articles and organizes parties.  

Anny Li is a writer and editor based in New York. She currently works at Snøhetta, an integrated architecture and landscape design studio, where she writes, edits, and manages publications.  

Lichens is Rob Lowe. His most recent record is Omns (Kranky). He lives in Brooklyn. Website

Justin Lieberman is an artist based in Brooklyn. Website

Min Lieskovsky  

Glenn Ligon is a New York–based artist. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Camden Arts Centre, London; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Power Plant, Toronto, among other venues. A major retrospective of his work, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2011 and traveled nationally. Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, a curatorial project organized with Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Liverpool, opened in 2015. Ligon was also included in the 2015 Venice Biennale. His awards and honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Studio Museum’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and many more in the United States and abroad. Ligon earned his BA from Wesleyan University and participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.  

Michelle Lim is a studio art major at New York University. Website

Lana Lin is an artist, filmmaker, and writer based in New York City. She is the author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (2017). She has made a number of films that fall into the capacious category of experimental, critical, and creative nonfiction, some of which are archived here. She collaborates on research-based multidisciplinary projects with H. Lan Thao Lam as Lin + Lam. She teaches in the school of media studies at the New School. Website

Tan Lin is the author, most recently, of 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking: and Insomnia and the Aunt. The recipient of a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant to complete a book on the writings of Andy Warhol, he is also working on a novel called Our Feelings Were Made by Hand. Website

Kelly Link coedits Small Beer Press and has written three collections of fantastic short stories, most recently Pretty Monsters.  

Jen Liu is a visual artist working in performance, video, painting, and installation. She studied at the California Institute of the Arts and at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She has presented work at The Sculpture Center, On Stellar Rays, and Issue Project Room, New York; the Aspen Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MUSAC, Leon; Royal Academy and ICA in London; Kunsthaus Zurich; and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. In 2013 Liu's installation Melon Mysticism for Everyone, was affixed to the Manhattan Bridge in New York. She was included in the 2014 Shanghai Biennial. Liu lives and works in New York.  

Lucy Siyao Liu is an artist and architectural designer based in New York. Her work addresses representational techniques and the disjunctions that occur in imaging technologies, with an emphasis on exploring systems of nature through drawings and animations. She is the creator and coeditor of PROPS PAPER, a weekly newspaper on image research. She teaches drawing for the Department of Architecture and for the Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) Program at MIT. Lately, she has been drawing clouds.  

Alex Logsdail is the international director of the London- and Manhattan-based Lisson Gallery where he works closely with artists such as Carmen Herrera and Dan Graham, and a younger generation which includes Allora & Calzadilla, Pedro Reyes, and Haroon Mirza, among others. In addition to Lisson, Logsdail has worked previously at Deitch Projects and Team Gallery, both in New York, among other organizations. He is currently a member of the Whitney Museum’s Performance Committee and was previously a member of the Publishers Circle before joining the Board, in addition to having regularly supported Triple Canopy’s annual benefit.  

Tim Lokiec is a painter based in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited at de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Saatchi Gallery, London, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York and Oliver Kamm 5BE, New York. He received his MFA from Columbia University.  

Paloma Contreras Lomas explora distintos vestigios de la masculinizada política mexicana, buscando huir de tácticas panfletarias, utiliza la caricatura política como método de producción y pensamiento. Trabaja por escrito, dibujo, instalación y video. Es miembro activo del colectivo Biquini Wax, además de ser bañista honoraria en el grupo de estudios sub-críticos y curatoriales latinoamericanos Los Yacusi. Su trabajo se ha exhibido en la Ciudad de México en Museo de Arte Moderno de México; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo; Alumnos47; Ladrón Galería; Museo Numismático; y en Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kirkland Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge. Ha editado de manera independiente distintas publicaciones como Sin Valor (2015); El Instituto para el estudio del Fascismo (2017); Fanzine Menstrual día uno y día dos (2016); y Las Botas de Hule precioso (2016). Ha publicado en libros como Manifiestos (Random House, 2017) y en el Blog de Crítica. Es escritora fantasma en su blog de escritura Lirio Cobra. Website

Gareth Long is an artist based in New York. He holds a BA in visual studies and classical civilizations from the University of Toronto and an MFA from Yale University. Recent solo exhibitions include those at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Kate Werble Gallery, New York; Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; and Torri, Paris. Website

Jordan Lord is a writer and video artist, studying at Columbia University. He is also a former editorial and production assistant for Triple Canopy. Website

Christian Lorentzen is an editor of the London Review of Books.  

Marie Lorenz is an artist whose project The Tide and Current Taxi ferries passengers through the waterways of New York.  

Laurence Lowe is a writer based in Brooklyn and a former editor of Triple Canopy. His work has appeared in the New Republic, GQ, the New York Times, n+1, and Metropolis M. Website

Glenn Lowry is an American art historian and has served as the director of the Museum of Modern Art since 1995. Lowery was born in New York City and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He received his BA from Williams College and MA (1978) and PhD (1982) in the history of art from Harvard University, with honorary degrees from the College of William and Mary and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Lowry lectures and writes in support of contemporary art, on the role of museums in society, and on other topics related to his research interests. He is a member of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s board of trustees, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the steering committee for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and a resident member of the American Philosophical Society. He also serves on the advisory council of the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University. In 2004, the French government honored Lowry with the title of Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.  

Mina Loy (1882–1966) was a writer, artist, actor, and lamp designer. Website

LSDXOXO is a New York-based DJ and producer. The Fader has described LSDXOXO’s work as “deliciously confrontational.” His recent releases include the mixtapes Fuck Marry Kill (GHE20G0TH1K, 2016) and Whorecore (2014), which was selected by Fact as one of the top fifty albums of the year. LSDXOXO has garnered attention for his wild manipulations of mainstream sounds, which often apply sex-positive narratives to pop culture. He’s currently working on his debut LP, which will be released by GHE20G0TH1K.  

Derek Lucci  

Luca Lum is a Singapore-based artist and writer. Her work has been featured in LUMA/Westbau (Zurich); the Hong Kong-based literary journal Cha; and the Yale Literary Magazine. She is currently working with the National University of Singapore Museum on CONCRETE ISLAND, a program that explores Singapore’s limits and excesses through publications, an experimental literature class and reading workshop, a mobile cinema program, bus tours, and exhibitions.  

Joe Luna lives in Brighton, UK, where he runs the Hi Zero reading series and edits Hi Zero magazine. Crater Press published the letterpress fold Google Song in November 2011; his poems have appeared in, among others, Poems, Written Between October and December 2010 (Grasp Press), The Claudius App (online), Better than Language: An Anthology of New Modernist Poetries (Ganzfeld Press), FRIENDS (Critical Documents), The Cambridge Literary Review, Sous les Pavés, Damn the Cæsars, Lana Turner, and The Death and Life of American Cities. A booklet, LVRSLVRSLVRSLVRS, was privately distributed in 2010; the .pdf epic FAILCORE is still public. A new book, ASTROTURF, is forthcoming.  

Israel Lund Website

Anna Lundh is a visual artist, born in Sweden and based in Stockhom and New York. Lundh’s work investigates cultural phenomena, social agreements, technology, and language and takes the form of video, text, installation, and various experiments. In recent years she has participated in residency programs such as LMCC Workspace and Flux Factory, New York, and Omi International Arts Center, Ghent; and shown her work at Bonniers Konsthall, Haninge Konsthall, Kalmar Konstmuseum, and Norrköpings Konstmuseum in Sweden and X-Initiative (Rhizome), Marian Spore, Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, and Apexart in New York. Website

Matthew Lusk is an artist based in Brooklyn. Website

Irene Lusztig is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. Website

Christopher Lyon is an art writer and editor living in Brooklyn. He is editor in chief of Prestel Publishing. Website