Momus Emerging Critics Residency

Hannah Black is an artist and writer based in New York.

Dr Léuli Eshrāghi (Sāmoan, Persian, Cantonese), visual artist, writer, curator and researcher, works between Australia and Canada. Ia intervenes in display territories to centre Indigenous kin constellations, sensual and spoken languages, and ceremonial-political practices. Through performance, moving image, writing and installation, ia engages with Indigenous futurities as haunted by ongoing militourist and missionary violences that once erased faʻafafine-faʻatane people from kinship and knowledge structures.

Eshrāghi has made new commissions for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Sharjah Biennial 14, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center among other group and solo presentations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Eshrāghi has lectured at gatherings Creative Time, Hawaiʻi Contemporary Art Summit, Experimenter Curators’ Hub, March Meeting, Dhaka Art Summit, Pacific Arts Association, and Asia Pacific Triennial, as well as at universities in Antwerp, San Juan, London, Melbourne, Yogyakarta, Montreal, Honolulu, Auckland and Victoria. Ia contributes to growing international critical practice across the Great Ocean and North America through residencies, exhibitions, publications, teaching and rights advocacy.

Sky Goodden is the founding Publisher and Editor of Momus, an international art criticism publication and podcast. Since 2014, Momus has been shortlisted for three International Awards for Art Criticism, and its contributors have won nine Creative Capital Warhol Grants for Art Writers, and a Rabkin Foundation Award for Art Journalism. Goodden has published in multiple catalogues and art books, as well as Frieze, Art in America, C Magazine, and Art21. She hosts two popular Momus Emerging Critics Residencies annually; and co-produces and hosts Momus: The Podcast, with Lauren Wetmore. Currently in its fourth season, the podcast was named one of the top-ten art podcasts by The New York Times in 2020. Goodden is an “Alumni of Influence” from OCAD University, where she did her MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice; and has won the J.E.H. MacDonald Award from Toronto’s Arts & Letters Club.

In 2021-22, Goodden is launching a Momus Institute in collaboration with Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts.

Candice Hopkins is a curator and writer of Tlingit descent originally from Whitehorse, Yukon. She is Senior Curator of the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-curator of the 2018 SITE Santa Fe biennial, Casa Tomada. She was a part of the curatorial team for documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany and a co-curator of the major exhibitions Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, and the 2014 SITElines biennial, Unsettled Landscapes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her writing is published widely and her recent essays and presentations include “Outlawed Social Life” for South as a State of Mind and Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices at Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway. She has lectures internationally including at the Witte de With, Tate Modern, Dak’Art Biennale, Artists Space, Tate Britain and the University of British Columbia. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art and the 2016 the Prix pour un essai critique sur l’art contemporain by the Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco. She is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation.

Emmanuel Iduma is the author, most recently, of A Stranger's Pose. His essays have been published widely, including in Artforum, Art in America, Aperture, The New York Review of Books, and a wide range of magazines, monographs and exhibition catalogues. His honors include an arts writing grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the inaugural Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism from AICA-USA, and the C/O Berlin Talent Prize for Theory. In 2020, he was included on Apollo Magazine’s 40 Under 40 Africa. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria, and New York City. 

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 Art in America, The Believer, Frieze, The Nation, and elsewhere.  She is the recipient of a 2020 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and a 2020 Arts Writer Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation. Find her online at @lynne_bias.

Catherine G. Wagley writes about art and visual culture in Los Angeles. She currently works as an art critic for L.A. Weekly and contributes to a number of other publications, most recently CARLA, ARTNews, East of Borneo, and L.A. Review of Books. She is a Contributing Editor and an Associate Editor for Momus.

Lauren Wetmore is a curator and writer based in Brussels. Currently, she is a curatorial research fellow at Mudam Luxembourg and co-host/producer of Momus: The Podcast. She has contributed to exhibitions, biennials and commissioning programs internationally including the 2013 Carnegie International (Pittsburgh), Frieze Projects (London, 2014-15) and Meeting Points 8 at La Loge (Brussels, 2016), Windsor Hotel (Cairo, 2016) and the Beirut Art Center (2017). Her independent curatorial projects include Basir Mahmood: I watch you do for Kunstenfestivaldesarts at Cinema Galerie (Brussels, 2019) and The Conversation, for which she was awarded the Encura curatorial residency at Fundació AAVC Hangar (Barcelona, 2015). She has also held positions at The Banff Centre, Barbican Art Gallery and has spoken at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2018), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, 2018) and Edition Artbook Fair (Toronto, 2017). Wetmore was short-listed for the 2016 International Awards for Art Criticism and has contributed to publications including Xavier Cha: abduct (MOCA Cleveland, 2015) and These Are the Tools of the Present: Beirut–Cairo (Sternberg Press, 2017). Wetmore holds a MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice from OCAD University, Toronto, and a BA in Art History and Gender Studies from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.