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Sky Goodden

Sky Goodden is the founding Publisher and Editor of Momus (momus.ca), an international art publication and podcast that stresses “a return to art criticism.” Momus has been shortlisted for two International Awards for Art Criticism since its inauguration in 2014, and its contributors have been awarded nine Creative Capital Warhol Grants for Art Writers, and a Rabkin Foundation Award for Art Journalism. Momus published its first print compendium in 2017, which toured across Canada, the US, and Mexico. Goodden was the Artist-in-Residence at Montreal’s Concordia University in 2018-19, and holds an MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice from OCAD University, which awarded her with an “Alumni of Influence Award.” In 2019, she was awarded the J.E.H. MacDonald Award from the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto. Goodden has published in multiple catalogues and art books, as well as Frieze, Art in America, Modern Painters, Canadian Art, C Magazine, the National Post, and Art21. She is currently hosting Momus Emerging Critics Residencies in collaboration with Concordia University (Montreal), OCAD University (Toronto), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with annual scholarships provided by the former US Ambassadors to Canada, Bruce and Vicki Heyman. Goodden is building a Momus Institute in Montreal, to be launched in 2020-21.

Features• December 8, 2020

Stringing the Net: An Interview with Small Arts Patron Annie Koyama

By Sky Goodden

In 2007, anticipating a recession that would destabilize so much, the celebrated publisher Annie Koyama began giving out small grants to artists – “quietly,”…

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Features• May 23, 2020

Listening to Jeanne Randolph

By Sky Goodden

I have been lucky enough to sit in a dark room listening to Jeanne Randolph talk. I should mention that I say this very…

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Art Basel, Features• October 18, 2019

The Future Wandering of Tau Lewis

By Sky Goodden

A conversation with Tau Lewis is an exercise in looking back as much as in looking forward. In discussing her figurative sculptures, she circles…

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Reviews• May 17, 2019

Grafting the Baroque: The Scaled-Up Frames of David Armstrong Six

By Sky Goodden

“Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical…

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Reviews• April 27, 2019

Looking Out from Looking In: Geneviève Cadieux Shifts From the Polemic to the Poetic

By Sky Goodden

Milling through the Vancouver Art Gallery earlier this spring, I stopped before a towering diptych that paired a cartoon prince and a back-turned nude….

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Features• February 20, 2019

The Seductive Branding of Phoebe Greenberg

By Sky Goodden

Phoebe Greenberg occupies a unique position in Montreal’s art community, as well as in Canada – and she’s made sure of it. The former…

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Features, Reviews• January 21, 2019

Bad Faith in MOCA Toronto’s Inaugural Show, “Believe”

By Sky Goodden

I’ve spent the better part of five months trying to write a review of a show that’s now closed: MOCA Toronto’s inaugural exhibition, Believe….

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Reviews• December 21, 2018

Shannon Bool Traces the Women of Algiers

By Sky Goodden

The symbolism of ornament has long founded Shannon Bool’s practice, and that’s lucky. It’s lucky that something so alluring could be both legitimating and…

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Features• November 13, 2018

“In the Round of Her Need”: An Interview with Ambera Wellmann

By Sky Goodden

I first observed the uncanny paintings of Ambera Wellmann in an intimate solo show at Toronto’s now-defunct Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects. A natural light…

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Uncategorized• August 13, 2018

Art Criticism vs. Journalism with Catherine G. Wagley and Julia Halperin – Ep. 03

By Sky Goodden

In the first episode of Momus’s new “Criticism in Conversation” podcast series, an art critic and an art journalist parse the differing responsibilities and…

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