Spring 2024 New Members
AICA-USA is excited to warmly welcome the newest members to our community!
JAMIE AYLWARD
Jamie Aylward is a critic based between Princeton, NJ and Paris, France. His focus is primarily on painters and the links between contemporary and historical practices in painting. His writing has appeared in Curatorial Affairs, Film Comment, White Hot, Dispatches Magazine, 3:AM and elsewhere.
Instagram: @jamie.aylward
NINA CHKAREULI-MDIVANI
Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani is Tbilisi-born and New York-based art critic, researcher and curator. She holds undergraduate degrees in International Relations and Gender Studies from Tbilisi State University and Mount Holyoke College, and a graduate degree in Museum Studies from the City University of New York. Chkareuli-Mdivani's book, King is Female, published in October 2018 in Berlin by Wienand Verlag explores the lives of three Georgian women artists and is the first publication to investigate questions of the feminine identity in the context of the Eastern European historical, social, and cultural transformation of the last twenty years. Chkareuli-Mdivani has contributed reviews, essays, and interviews to e-flux, Hyperallergic, Flash Art International, Artforum, MoMa.post, The Brooklyn Rail, The Arts Newspaper, JANE Magazine Australia, NERO Editions Italy, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, XIBT Magazine Berlin, Eastern European Film Bulletin, Berlin Art Link, Arte & Lusso Dubai and others. She has curated over ten exhibitions in New York, Germany, Latvia, and Georgia. Her research involves the intersection of art history, museum, and decolonization studies with a focus on totalitarian art and trauma theory. As a researcher Chkareuli-Mdivani aims to synthesize historical and contemporary.
Website: https://ninamdivani.com
Instagram: @nina_chkareuli_mdivani
E.C. FEISS
E. C. Feiss is a writer and an assistant professor in the art department at Providence College in Providence, RI. Broadly, she is interested in art’s relationships to capital and to processes of social transformation. Recent writing appears in issue #22 (2024) of the MAY Revue and is forthcoming in Post45journal.
Instagram: @ecfeiss
JULIA FRIEDMAN
Julia Friedman is a Russian-born art historian, writer and curator. She began to study art history at the Hermitage Museum, in St. Petersburg, where she grew up. After receiving her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2005, she has researched and taught in the US, UK and Japan. In 2010 Northwestern University Press published her illustrated monograph Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism: Alexei Remizov’s Synthetic Art. The same year she became a regular contributor to Artforum, and in 2017 she began writing for The New Criterion. In 2015–2016 she collaborated on a project with art critic Dave Hickey, editing Dustbunnies and Wasted Words—two pendant volumes based on his Facebook exchanges. Since then, she has written essays and articles about political art, art history and pornography, the aesthetics of #MeToo, President Trump’s classical architecture executive order, George Orwell, NFTs, AI art, Johannes Vermeer, Philip Guston, and Wayne Thiebaud. In 2020 she was interviewed for the new Netflix documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed (2021) directed by Joshua Rofé, and in September 2021, she was a guest on I Don’t Understand, William Shatner’s new talk show.
Website: www.juliafriedman.org
Instagram: @JuliaFriedman
THU-HUONG HA
Thu-Huong Ha is an American writer. In her role as culture critic at The Japan Times, she reviews contemporary art and literature. She also writes essays and fiction. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, The Believer, ArtReview, Quartz, Slate, and Catapult, among others.
Website: thuhuongha.com
Instagram: @whathusee
X: @thu
ANNETTE LEPIQUE
Annette LePique is a freelance arts writer and staff editor at Sixty Inches From Center. Her writing has appeared in ArtReview, Chicago Reader, Eaten Magazine, New Art Examiner, and NewCity. She has work forthcoming with Momus and Hyperallergic. She received master’s degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, and is a 2023 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Art Journalism.
Website: thttps://art-writing.onepage.me/writing-links
Instagram: @annette.lepique
ASHLEY OUDERKIRK
Ashley Ouderkirk (she/her) is a freelance art writer, editor, artist advisor, and independent curator dividing her time between Queens and Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from Syracuse University and furthered her academic journey with an M.A. in Art History from CUNY Hunter College. Her work and passion centers around rethinking and expanding the relationship between art and audience, while always grounding her projects in an inclusive history of art. In her recent endeavors, she curated impactful projects for prestigious platforms such as SPRING/BREAK, ChaShaMa, Art in General, and KUNSTRAUM LLC, where she served as the 2022-23 Curator-in-Residence. Her exhibitions have gained prominent recognition and discussion in reputable art platforms like Hyperallergic, Cultbytes, Arcade Project, Art Frankly, and Art Spiel. Ashley is the editor of both Friend of the Artist and ART[MEMO] magazine, the latter of which her published exhibition reviews can be found. Her published reviews are also featured in Art and Cake magazine. Additionally, Ashley is currently a board member for Art in Residence, a non-profit exploring the potential of public art in Antelope Valley, CA.
Website: www.ouderkirkonart.com
Instagram: @ouderkirkonart