Lauren
O’Neill-Butler is
a New York-based writer and editor. Her books include The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America (Verso, 2025) and Let’s Have a Talk: Conversations
with Women on Art and Culture (Karma, 2021). A former cofounder of the nonprofit magazine November and 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’s a proud union member of ACT-UAW Local 790 and PSC-CUNY.
She’s on Bluesky here. 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’s a proud union member of ACT-UAW Local 790 and PSC-CUNY.
She’s on Bluesky here. Please feel free to be in touch with any questions.