David Rimanelli

Bio

David Rimanelli began writing about art in 1988 and has chronicled developments in the New York art world for over three decades. From 1993 to 1999, he was a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Since 1997 he has been a contributing editor at Artforum, writing also for Bookforum, Interview, Texte zur Kunst, Vogue Paris, frieze, The New York Times, and Flash Art. He is the recipient of a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and his essays have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues. Known for his irreverence and depth of cultural knowledge, Rimanelli has lectured at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Columbia University, and Yale. His criticism has been widely cited for its stylistic audacity and its insistence that criticism itself can be literature.