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Sky Goodden

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

Features• October 27, 2015

Public Art Has to Be Art First and Public Second: A Conversation with Stuart Reid on Union Station

By Sky Goodden

Toronto recently saw Union Station’s protracted and over-budget revitalization project achieve one of its first clear signs of completion, an expansive public art installation…

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Features• October 21, 2015

Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair

By Sky Goodden

In Venice, last spring, over the requisite Spritz, I met with the London and New York-based critic Orit Gat to discuss the possibility of…

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Features• October 7, 2015

Robert Rauschenberg and Rachel Harrison Mirror Media and More Across Time

By Sky Goodden

In 1970, a powerful bomb detonated Rodin’s Thinker (1880-81) outside the Cleveland Museum of Art. This edition of the sculpture was a rare version of the existing 25…

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Features• September 24, 2015

Interview: Lois Andison Talks Back to Male Modernists

By Sky Goodden

Twice in the past year I’ve visited Olga Korper and she’s taken me from the gallery, past the offices, through her kitchen (where there’s…

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Features• August 24, 2015

Momus “Best Of”: Vol. 1

By Sky Goodden

It’s been a good ten months. Since October 2014, Momus has quickly become a trusted reference for those wishing to reflect on contemporary art at…

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Reviews• August 15, 2015

What Gets Revealed When Iris Häussler Finally Owns Her Name

By Sky Goodden

It’s not easy to write about Iris Häussler. I’ve been avoiding it, though desiring it, since her daring He Named Her Amber (2008) subsumed the…

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Features• July 13, 2015

Chantal Pontbriand Will Not Curate Your Biennial: On “Demo-Graphics,” and Its Potential to Reignite Toronto

By Sky Goodden

There is a bracing moment at the end of my interview with Chantal Pontbriand in early July, where, just as I’m about to leave,…

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Features• June 26, 2015

Post-Crisis: What’s Next for Art Criticism in a Digital Age

By Sky Goodden

Momus was founded a short time ago. It was initiated as a proposed recovery from a confused and defensive (and, so I thought, largely…

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Features• June 23, 2015

A Rebuttal, Not a Conversation: Discussing Ombaasin’s AGO Intervention, “Land Rights Now”

By Sky Goodden

Walking the AGO’s latest exhibition Picturing the Americas: Landscapes from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic with Wanda Nanibush, an Anishnawbe-kwe artist, consultant, and…

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Features• June 17, 2015

Interview: Tacita Dean

By Sky Goodden

Twice in the course of a thirty-minute interview with Tacita Dean, her eyes move across the room and narrow-in on the media coordinator, who…

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