Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Areas of Specialization: Global Modernism, Modern and Contemporary Art in the Middle East and North Africa, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism

Email: Kaelen.Wilson-Goldie@stonybrook.edu

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a PhD candidate in art history and criticism at Stony Brook University. She is a journalist and critic and the author of Etel Adnan (2018), on the paintings of the Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan, and Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War (2022), about the work of Amar Kanwar, Teresa Margolles, and the anonymous Syrian filmmakers’ collective Abounaddara. Wilson-Goldie is a regular contributor to Artforum, Aperture, and Afterall and has written for 4Columns, Art Journal, ARTMargins, Bookforum, Camera Austria, Sight + Sound, The Village Voice, and The New York Times, among other publications. She was a practitioner-in-residence at NYU's Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies in 2022, won a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program in 2013, and was a fellow in the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program in 2007. She earned an MA in Middle East Studies from the American University of Beirut, an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, and a BA in English Literature and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on ideas of modernism, feminism, and decolonization in the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on the work of groundbreaking but understudied women artists and the importance of cities such as Beirut, Cairo, and Algiers as major centers of art, culture, and political thought.