RECENTLY PUBLISHED

"Differences in Kind and Rhythm: Giorgio Griffa and Peter Robinson." Review. Artforum. October, 2025.
"Derek Jarman: Delphinium Days." Review. Artforum. May, 2025.
Editor, Peter Joseph. London: Lisson, 2025.
"John Walker's Paradoxes," in Catherine Lampert, ed. John Walker. London: Thames & Hudson, 2025.
"Ricky Swallow's Studio Work." in Ricky Swallow: Components. New York: David Kordansky Gallery, 2024.
"Kate Spencer Stewart in Conversation with Alex Bacon." Emalin, 2024.
"Raphaela Simon: Phantom." Review. Artforum, 2024.
"Lynda Benglis: Knots & Videotapes, 1972-1976." Review. Brooklyn Rail. July/August 2024.
"Alvaro Barrington." Interview. Brooklyn Rail. July/August 2024.
"Harmony Hammond and the Body of Painting," in Harmony Hammond: Crossings + Accumulations. Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2023.
"Frank Bowling." Interview. Brooklyn Rail. July/August 2023.
"Jesse Stecklow's Recursive Aesthetics." Jesse Stecklow: Terminal. Vienna: mumok, 2022.
"The Dwan 10 Exhibition," Ad Reinhardt: Art is Art and Everything Else is Everything Else. Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2021
Editor, Richard Nonas: Collected Printed Matter, 1971-2020. Gussago, Italy: Tonini Editore, 2021.

 

Alex Bacon is an art historian based in New York. He was the 2025 Visiting Scholar at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is also a publisher of Circle Books and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail. In addition to the Rail, he regularly writes criticism for magazines such as Artforum, Mousse, and Kaleidoscope. From 2017 to 2020 he was a Curatorial Associate at the Princeton University Art Museum, where he led the campus public art program and programmed a series of first institutional exhibitions of emerging artists. As a freelance curator he has organized exhibitions for various institutions and commercial galleries. He has lectured widely and taught at institutions including Rhode Island School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, and AKV/St Joost. He is currently finishing his PhD in Art & Archaeology at Princeton University on the late black paintings of Ad Reinhardt.

 

alex.j.bacon@gmail.com