Vanessa Thill
My poetry book was published in 2020 by Pacific Press.
Selected published writings:
2024
Ali Cherri Interview by Vanessa Thill, Foundworks Dialogues, October 8
2021
What is Normal? Looking Back Series, Performance, BOMB Magazine, December 21
Monolith Reef: Form-Making and Making-Form, From Object to Practice and Back, Catalog essay for “Monolith” exhibition at Southern Exposure San Francisco, September
Tenant of Culture, Interview by Vanessa Thill, Found Work Dialogues, July 13
2020
Fighting the Megatowers: A Tale of Two Bridges, Op-Ed by Alessandra Ametrano, Steph Kranes, and Vanessa Thill. Left Voice, October 23
Bigtime Outlaws, Interview with Osgemeos, Cultured Magazine, October issue
New artist resale rights contract in the US has a charitable twist, The Art Newspaper, June 11
Stealth Mode & Spiritual Shelter with Hanaé and Vanessa Thill, Pond Mag, May 15
Garrett Bradley’s Archive for a New Era Cultured Magazine, March
Interview: Kim Westfall on traumatic cuteness and social reproduction Artforum, February
2019
First section of Miami’s $100m Underline public art park to open in summer 2020 The Art Newspaper, December 7
Theater as Convergence: Lucas Baisch Interviewed by Vanessa Thill BOMB Magazine, December 6
Art Basel in Miami Beach: Diaries Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 co-authored with Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper December 4 – 7
Now or Never: Guan Xiao and the Art of Contradiction Cultured Magazine, December 3
The Extraordinary Sidepiece: Xandra Ibarra at the Center of the Action Cultured Magazine, October 26
Time Pressure, with Liz Magic Laser and Zahid Iqbal, L’Officiel, October
I crawled down New York’s streets for Pope.L’s Conquest performance The Art Newspaper, September
Petro-Queen, and introduction in Speed of Resin published by Cooperative Editions & dispersed holdings launched at NYABF
We need to fight the gentrification blight Op-Ed in The Art Newspaper, September issue
Introduction to Liz Magic Laser, Cori Kresge & Hanna Novak’s ‘User Friendly’ in Spanish and English, Terremotto Magazine, Mexico City, in Issue 15: Cuerpo pólvora / Gunpowder Body, August
Interview: Juliana Cerqueira Leite on Pompeii and planetary motion Artforum, August
Can You Make the Bad Good Again? A return to nature at SFER IK Tulum Frieze, August
Dispatch from Two Bridges for the “Skyline” column in the New York Review of Architecture, Issue No. 3, July and Issue No. 5, October
Getting Well Together: NIC Kay Interviewed by Vanessa Thill Bomb Magazine, July
Radio Session: Arnette Scott & Vanessa Thill Talk About Two Bridges Montez Press Radio, June 4
Reading Space, Drawing Time: A Conversation Around Mirtha Dermisache’s Selected Writings and Renee Gladman’s Prose Architectures between Vanessa Thill & Lewis Freedman, Tripwire 15: the Narrative/Prose issue, a journal of poetics, Oakland, CA, May
Sunday in Chapultepec Park with Carsten Höller The Art Newspaper, April
Lessons from the Afghan Women Who Weave Modern War into an Ancient Tradition Artsy, March
2018
Inside the Effort to Write Women into Art History Artsy, December
Honey Harvest in Oasis, Issue 4:Landfill of Advice an anticapitalist journal in the desert, Holum Press, Phoenix, AZ, October
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the Dada Baroness Who Invented the Readymade Artsy, September
Catalog essay for “Between Now & Then: Life in the Bardos” September
Şükran Moral’s Humorous Scrutiny of Patriarchal Traditions Frieze, August
Catalog text for “O” by Nicholas Sullivan Catbox Contemporary, May
Catalog essay for “Radial Blur: Barnard College Visual Art Thesis Exhibition” April
Against the Tide: When Eva Hesse Said ‘Fuck That’ to Trends and Got Real Vice – Garage Magazine, April
Season Zero: Making Time at Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art and Design, interview with Jo-ey Tang, Art & Education, February
Doreen Garner and Kenya Robinson at Pioneer Works Artforum, February
2017
Making and Unmaking the Curator at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College Art & Education, December
Thessaloniki Biennale 6 Frieze, November
Neighborhood Associations: Art and the City at the 15th Istanbul Biennial Art in America, October
At the Borderline of Uncontrollability: Six Lessons from Eva Hesse Art in America, August
The Trauma of Political Engagement: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Tania Libre Art in America, May
Elaine Cameron-Weir: Viscera Has Questions About Itself Artforum, May
Uncontrolled Violence: A Chris Burden Documentary Art in America, April
Bad Blood, Honest Work: Blood on the Mountain The Brooklyn Rail, April
Bearing Witness: Mendieta Now The Brooklyn Rail, February
2016
Monthly introductions to The Air Sheets Sorry Archive, December 2016 to December 2017
how did we get to where we are going and other poems in Packet Biweekly Issue 080, June
No Gains on Sacrifice, press release and catalog text Sorry Archive, Spring/Break Art Show, March
Lucha and other poems in Packet Biweekly Issue 073, February
Standing Still in the Crowd, short fiction in Double Spar by Slow Youth, February
Contribution to catalog, Plain Sight organized by Tom McGlynn, Sorry Archive, Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, January
2015
Blazing Past, edited mini-section in Packet Biweekly Issue 066, October
Maybe I’m Amazed press release Sorry Archive, Knockdown Center, October
Packet Biweekly Poetry Special: Smart, Pretty, Emotionally Stable (Pick Two), edited by Nicole Reber, Issue 061
Shoal Survivor broadsheet Sorry Archive, TSA Annex, June
Shelf Life broadsheet designed by Claire Mirocha, Sorry Archive, Spring/Break Art Show, March
2014
Interphase press release with footnotes by Claire Mirocha, Sorry Archive, Select Art Fair, Miami, FL, December
“Abstract” and collage pages in And the Villagers Never Liked You Anyway catalog Sorry Archive, Knockdown Center, November
Review: Julia Westerbeke’s Morphology at A.I.R., On-Verge alternative art criticism, November
Catalog editor, Lucid Gestures: An Exhibition of Barnard Alumnae 138 pages, October
Antimony in Just in Time Magazine, June
Review: Other Primary Structures Jewish Museum, Daily Serving, June
Review: Jumana Manna: Menace of Origins at Sculpture Center Daily Serving, May
Trip to the Museum: A Reckless Review of Mike Kelley at MoMA PS1 Brio Pop Magazine, February
Catalog text for Jin Joo Chae’s The Choco Pie-ization of North Korea, Julie Meneret Contemporary Art, January
2013
Lethal Beach, or, How to Reconcile with Mythic California: an essay about State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Brio Pop Magazine
Catalog text for Zakaria Ramhani’s May Allah Forgive Me, Vols. 1 and 2, Julie Meneret Contemporary Art, November 2013
2012
The Art of Painting Fringe Festival review, Time Out New York, August
The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children Fringe Festival review in Time Out New York, August