ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – Spring/Summer 2025
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Photo by Laurent Chevalier, Courtesy of the artist.
“As a writer and art critic, I am propelled by curiosity about the world around me. The arts, in particular, are how we learn to recognize the beauty in one another, our non-human kin, and in ourselves. I am often thinking about the way art, in its varied manifestations, teaches us about the world we live in, how it can act as a grammar for care, pleasure, resistance, and justice. I sort through this grammar for myself through my writing, doing my best to show up to the page carefully and with deep love.”
Jessica Lynne is a writer and art critic. She is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The Believer, Frieze, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Oxford American, where she is a contributing editor. She is the recipient of a 2020 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, a 2020 Arts Writer Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the inaugural Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant awarded in 2022 by the American Australian Association. Her writing has been supported by Art Omi, Tin House, and The Carolyn Moore Writers House.
Jessica holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She has taught writing and lectured at institutions such as Colorado College, Northwestern University, The New School, and Yale School of Art. She is currently an associate editor at Momus and host of the limited series podcast, Harlem is Everywhere.
Find Jessica on Instagram: @lynne_bias
