Lauren
O’Neill-Butler is
a New York-based writer, editor, and educator. Her books include The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America (forthcoming from Verso, 2025) and Let’s Have a Talk: Conversations
with Women on Art and Culture (Karma, 2021). A cofounder of the nonprofit magazine November and a former Senior
Editor of Artforum magazine, she has written for Aperture, Art Journal, Bookforum, and The New York Times, among many others.
She has also contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues. In
2020 she received a Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant and in 2023 she received the Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant.
She holds graduate degrees in art history and philosophy, and has been a visiting critic at Cooper Union, Stony Brook University, USC, Rutgers, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Hunter College and the New School and has previously taught courses at the School of Visual Arts and RISD. She is an alumna of New College of Florida, where she first learned how to think critically.
Please feel free to be in touch with any questions.
She holds graduate degrees in art history and philosophy, and has been a visiting critic at Cooper Union, Stony Brook University, USC, Rutgers, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Hunter College and the New School and has previously taught courses at the School of Visual Arts and RISD. She is an alumna of New College of Florida, where she first learned how to think critically.
Please feel free to be in touch with any questions.