Lori Waxman
Lori Waxman has been the Chicago Tribune’s primary art critic since 2009 and a monthly columnist for Hyperallergic since 2022.
She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York. In her "60 wrd/min art critic" performance, Waxman writes art reviews in public and on demand, for any artist who wants one; the project has been exhibited in dOCUMENTA (13), published as an artist book by Onestar Press, and received a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant to fund a tour across the U.S.
Her other books include Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2011) and Keep Walking Intently (Sternberg Press, 2017), a history of walking as an art form.
She is originally from Montreal, Canada, and lives in Chicago with her artist husband and their two children.
She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York. In her "60 wrd/min art critic" performance, Waxman writes art reviews in public and on demand, for any artist who wants one; the project has been exhibited in dOCUMENTA (13), published as an artist book by Onestar Press, and received a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant to fund a tour across the U.S.
Her other books include Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2011) and Keep Walking Intently (Sternberg Press, 2017), a history of walking as an art form.
She is originally from Montreal, Canada, and lives in Chicago with her artist husband and their two children.