Will Fenstermaker
Will Fenstermaker is a writer and critic living in Los Angeles after a decade covering art in New York City. Now a contributing writer for Frieze magazine, his essays on art, culture and ideology have been published in Artforum, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Dissent, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Paris Review Daily and T Magazine, among other publications, and he has written for institutions such as AICA-USA, Independent Art Fair, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby’s and The de Young Museum.
As a senior editor at Sotheby’s, he oversees coverage of auctions and exhibitions in the US and Europe. Formerly an editor at The Met, he launched the museum’s online magazine︎︎︎. He previously held editorial positions at TheGuide.art and The Brooklyn Rail, where he returned as a guest critic in March 2021 to edit a selection of essays on artists’ manifestos.
In 2023 Will was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant︎︎︎ for short-form criticism, and in 2019 he was a mentor in CUE’s Art Critic Mentorship Program. Over the years he has served as a visiting critic for several artist residencies, including The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and NARS Foundation in New York City, and as a US board member of The International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA). He holds an MFA in art criticism and writing from New York’s School of Visual Arts and a BA in literature from The George Washington University in DC.
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