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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.

Reviews• June 2, 2018

An Open Door, By the Lake: Nadia Belerique Advances Her Symbolism

By Sky Goodden

A gift embedded in the trip to leafy, tony Oakville Galleries (a half-hour train ride from Toronto) is the moment you give yourself by…

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Reviews• March 15, 2018

Painting “From Here”: Susanna Heller at Olga Korper

By Sky Goodden

Whatever specificity of place can be found in Susana Heller’s paintings at Olga Korper Gallery shimmers with Wallace Stevens’s line, “Description is revelation. It…

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Reviews• March 15, 2018

Naming “Where is Here”: Ed Zelenak at Christopher Cutts

By Sky Goodden

One of the pleasures of Ed Zelenak’s decades-long practice is its resistance to easy narrative. And yet, as John Bentley Mays wrote in 2015,…

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Uncategorized• January 30, 2018

The Venice Biennale – Ep. 01

By Sky Goodden

Welcome to the pilot episode of Momus: The Podcast. For our first broadcast, we focus on the historic Venice Biennale as the 57th edition opens to the public….

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Podcast• December 12, 2017

Momus: The Podcast (Episode 2): The Artist Residency

By Sky Goodden

The artist residency has risen to the top of the artworld’s global economy and increasing professionalization, becoming one of the key features of contemporary…

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Uncategorized• December 12, 2017

The Artist Residency – Ep. 02

By Sky Goodden

Informing the artworld’s global economy and increasing professionalization, the artist residency has risen to the top, becoming one of the key features of contemporary…

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Features• October 18, 2017

Seeking a More Intimate Fair with /edition’s Paul Butler

By Sky Goodden

Toronto’s /edition art-book fair arrives, in its sophomore year, at an energizing time for art publishing. The event drew over 8,000 visitors last year…

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Features• August 21, 2017

Momus Best-Of Volume 3: 2016-17

By Sky Goodden

I confess to experiencing regular doubt, lately, about what art criticism can contribute to the fray when the conversations we need to be having,…

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Reviews• June 8, 2017

The Abject Intimacies of Chris Curreri

By Sky Goodden

I would like to be like water or rather like milk – completely pourable am right now more like stone but like sand or…

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Features, Podcast• May 25, 2017

Momus: The Podcast: The Venice Biennale

By Sky Goodden

Pilot Episode: The Venice Biennale Download Welcome to the pilot episode of Momus: The Podcast! For our first broadcast, we focus on the historic Venice Biennale. As…

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