Will Fenstermaker

Will Fenstermaker is a writer and cultural critic covering art, literature and ideology. A native New Yorker, he lives in Los Angeles.

Will’s writing appears in Artforum, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Dear Dave, Dissent, Family Style, Frieze, TheGuide.art, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Paris Review Daily and T Magazine, among other publications. He has also written for institutions including Independent Art Fair, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby’s and The de Young Museum.

Currently, Will is a contributing editor of art, design and architecture at Totei︎︎︎. Previously, as head of editorial at Sotheby’s, he led auction coverage in the US and Europe, and as editor at The Met he launched the museum’s online magazine︎︎︎. At Frieze, he served as interim reviews editor and contributing writer. At The Brooklyn Rail, he was associate editor, returning 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 Grant︎︎︎ for short-form criticism and was shortlisted for the International Awards for Art Criticism. He has served as a mentor in CUE’s Art Critic Mentorship Program, a visiting critic for several artist residencies—including The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and NARS Foundation—and a US board member of The International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA).

Will 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.

︎ Written Work
︎ Editorial Projects
︎ Kaput Media︎︎︎

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