Jessica Lynne

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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 Artforum, the Believer, Frieze, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and Oxford American, where she was a contributing editor. Lynne 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. She is the inaugural recipient of the Beverly Art Writers Travel Grant awarded in 2022 by the American Australian Association. From 2023 to 2025, Lynne was an editor for Momus.

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Contributions

Guest: Momus: The Podcast, since December 2022
Mentor: Momus Residencies & Fellowships
Faculty member: Momus Residencies & Fellowships
Speaker: Charting an Inflection Point in Art Criticism & Publishing
Author: Contributing to Momus since July 2023

Writing (2)

Features, Reviews August 15, 2024 Jessica Lynne, Catherine G. Wagley

Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial

Features July 11, 2023 Jessica Lynne

June Clark’s Perseverance of Memory

Podcast

Season 7 Episode 2

"An Inflection Point in Art Publishing"
Jessica Lynne, Merray Michael Mina, Catherine G. Wagley, Sky Goodden

Season 6 Episode 6

"We Can Attend to the Living"
Jessica Lynne, Catherine G. Wagley

Season 5 Episode 10

"Feel Right"
Jessica Lynne, Dr. Kemi Adeyemi

Residencies & Fellowships

Momus Residency: To Build and Sustain

Residency

August 11–15, 2025

With faculty members Dr. Kemi Adeyemi, Camille Bacon, Sky Goodden, Jessica Lynne, Elisabeth Nicula, and Lauren Wetmore.

Momus Critical Writing Fellowship 2025

Fellowship

January 1–December 1, 2025

With fellows David Ayala-Alfonso, Alexandra Méndez García, Ramona Ngin, and Andrii Ushytskyi and mentors Sky Goodden, Jessica Lynne, Merray Michael Mina, Catherine G. Wagley, and Lauren Wetmore.