Jennifer Sorkin

Jennifer Sorkin

U.S.

Art critic and PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at Yale University. Previously, she has worked as an independent curator and in the curatorial department at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Her writing has appeared in the New Art Examiner, Art Journal, Art Monthly, NU: The Nordic Art Review, Modern Painters, and Third Text. She writes regularly for Frieze magazine, and has written numerous in-depth catalogue essays on feminism topics and artists such as Judy Chicago, Linda Montano, Barbara T. Smith, and Joan Snyder. She has been a visiting critic at Cal Arts, Ohio University, SVA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from The Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2004, she was the recipient of the Art Journal Award. 

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