During this one hour session, Hrag Vartanian, Critic, Curator, Editor-in-chief & Co-founder of Hyperallergic will review as many works by Netvvrk members as possible, giving a maximum of 2 minutes review to each artist.

Hrag Vartanian

Hrag Vartanian (he/they) is an art critic, writer, curator, and lecturer on contemporary art with an expertise in the intersection of art and politics. He is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic, an independent art publication created in 2009 with his spouse, Veken Gueyikian.

Under Vartanian’s leadership, Hyperallergic has grown to reach millions of readers per year and is credited with revitalizing arts journalism over the last two decades as audiences moved online. He has helped foster a new generation of writers who reject art market-oriented coverage to focus on criticism and reporting that appeals to a broader cultural audience.

Vartanian is the host of the Hyperallergic podcast, which has released more than 100 episodes and featured prominent guests such as Audrey Flack, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Lucy Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Michael Rakowitz, Shahzia Sikander, John Yau and artists at the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

Throughout his career, Vartanian has forged a path of unconventional art writing that embraces ephemerality, speed, and new forms of criticism, all inspired by his own journaling practice and personal blog started in 2006.