Jenny Wu

︎    Writes about art + books
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News
I’ve joined ArtReview’s editorial team as their US associate editor. If you’re interested in writing about artists/exhibitions in NY, you can reach me here.

A personal essay of mine, on kitchens and agoraphobia, has been included in Apartamento Issue #33. You can order the issue here.


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︎New York
Teaches at Brooklyn College CUNY
Represented by Thompson Literary Agency
Commissions: jennywu488@gmail.com

Archive
︎ An Art Book with Teeth: Tammy Nguyen’s ‘O’, The Amp
︎ Artist Bang Geul Han Charts Borders and Desire Lines, The Amp
︎ ‘Between Waves’ Dives Deep into Asia-Pacific History, The Amp
︎ Lap-See Lam: The Lightness of History, Ars Fennica 2023 Award Catalog
︎ Gary Simmons and the art of unearthing ugly American truths, Art Basel Magazine
︎ Joan Jonas’s MoMA Retrospective Reveals the Enduring Influence of Japanese Culture on Her Work, Art in America
︎ Microbes and Mushrooms Take a Star Turn in Bio Art Show at MIT, Art in America
︎ Aria Dean: Abattoir, Art Monthly
︎ Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Lot of People, Art Monthly
︎ Alexis Blake: Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve, Art Monthly
︎ Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century, Art Monthly
︎ Atomic Terrain won’t stop at just one rose, Art21
︎ Ann Greene Kelly at Chapter NY, Artforum
︎ Sandra Cinto at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Artforum
︎ Clémence de La Tour du Pin at Derosia, Artforum
︎ Allison Miller at Susan Inglett Gallery, Artforum
︎ Sahana Ramakrishnan at Fridman Gallery, Artforum
︎ Misha Japanwala at Hannah Traore Gallery, Artforum
︎ Himali Singh Soin: The quantum entanglement of all mountains, Artforum

︎ The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, ArtReview
︎ Whitney Biennial 2024 Review: Baby Steps, ArtReview
︎ Louis Osmosis’s Sad America, ArtReview
︎ The Interview: Yto Barrada, ArtReview
︎ Thomas Hirschhorn’s Philosophical War, ArtReview
︎ Helen Marten’s Waste Land, ArtReview
︎ Suchitra Mattai’s Perfect Future, ArtReview
︎ cameron clayborn: No Trespassing, ArtReview
︎ Rosha Yaghmai’s Nowhere Gardens, ArtReview
︎ The Art of ‘A Little Digital Death’, ArtReview
︎ Édgar Calel’s Scattered Secular Rituals, ArtReview
︎ The Rogue Signals of Half a Century of Video Art, ArtReview
︎ Ming Smith’s Radical Intuition, ArtReview
︎ Nina Katchadourian’s Research and Play, ArtReview
︎ P.P.O.W’s Four Decades of Courage and Compassion in the Face of Crisis, Artsy
︎ How Kates-Ferri Projects Turned a Love Story into a Thriving Lower East Side Gallery, Artsy
︎ Prisoner of Love: On João Gilberto Noll’s ‘Hugs and Cuddles’, Astra
︎ ‘Concerning My Daughter’ by Kim Hye-jin, Asymptote
︎ ‘Harmada’ by João Gilberto Noll, Asymptote
︎ Vincent Cy Chen by Jenny Wu, BOMB
︎ Lap-See Lam Interviewed, BOMB
︎ Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake, BOMB
︎ Sharing Drafts: Joeun Kim Aatchim Interviewed, BOMB
︎ Ice (Fiction), BOMB
︎ Circulation as Critique: Guanyu Xu’s Itinerant Images, Bridge Magazine
︎ Graham Little, The Brooklyn Rail
︎ Maggie Nelson’s Like Love: Essays and Conversations, The Brooklyn Rail
︎ Lorenza Longhi: World of Yum Yum, The Brooklyn Rail
︎ Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader, The Brooklyn Rail
︎ Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus, The Brooklyn Rail
︎ Gego: Measuring Infinity, The Brooklyn Rail
︎ Carla Zaccagnini: Cuentos de cuentas, The Brooklyn Rail
︎ Cyberfeminism Index, The Brooklyn Rail
︎ Visible: Text + Image, The Brooklyn Rail
︎ “Point Reflection” — Aki Sasamoto, C Magazine
︎ The Critic-Comptroller: On Renee Gladman’s Solo Show at Artists Space, Cleveland Review of Books
︎ Eva Gold’s ‘Shadow Lands’ at Silke Lindner, e-flux
︎ Mit Jai Inn at Silverlens, e-flux
︎ A Long View of What is Near: The Place-Based Work of PSA, Harp & Altar
︎ The Promiscuity of Order: Literally means collapse at SculptureCenter, Harp & Altar
︎ ‘Hit Parade of Tears’ by Izumi Suzuki, Harvard Review
︎ Doc 117, Interlude Docs
︎ A New Hong Kong Cinema That Lives On: On Tiffany Sia’s ‘On and Off-Screen Imaginaries’, The Los Angeles Review of Books
︎ Sincerely Paranoid: On Catherine Lacey’s ‘Biography of X’, The Los Angeles Review of Books
︎ Possibly Related Characters: On Li Zi Shu’s ‘The Age of Goodbyes’, The Los Angeles Review of Books
︎ Was It a Betrayal?: On Kate Zambreno’s ‘To Write as if Already Dead’, The Los Angeles Review of Books
︎ Chamber Music, in ‘lunares’ by Hyeree Ro
︎ Life Without Style, MAP Magazine
︎ Parallel Play, MAP Magazine
︎ Trust Exercise: Stine Marie Jacobsen’s Group-Think Rewrites Protocols of Protest and Consent, MARCH: a journal of art & strategy
︎ For Kate Zambreno, Playthings Are Profound, The Millions
︎ Elder Care: On Alexandra Chang’s ‘Tomb Sweeping’, The Millions
︎ Getting Ahead: On Emma Cline’s ‘The Guest’, The Millions
︎ A Year in Reading, The Millions
︎ The Shape of Thought: On Emily Hall’s ‘The Longcut’, The Millions
︎ Tangled Muses: On Chelsea Martin’s ‘Tell Me I’m an Artist’, The Millions
︎ Through the Looking Glass: Distortion and the Fantasy of a Feminist Nude, Momus
︎ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief, Momus
︎ Solitary: Collective Authorship and its Discontents, Momus
︎ The Loneliness, and Danger, of Being a Young Woman in a New City, The New York Times
︎ What I Learned When I Started Using Rogaine, The New York Times
︎ The Long Journey Preceding Paradise: On The Sojourn and A Stone’s Throw, Open City Texts
︎ The tragic exploitation that puts food on our plates, The Washington Post
︎ A furious, joyful memoir of working-class New Jersey and the writing life, The Washington Post
︎ Ambition is the antihero in ‘Central Places’, The Washington Post
︎ Organic Intellectuals, X-TRA

Shows I’ve curated
︎ ‘Texts and Soundings’ at the NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
︎ ‘Test Flights’ at the Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY


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