Travis Diehl is a writer, editor, and freelance critic. He has lived in Los Angeles since 2009. He is a regular contributor to Frieze, Art-Agenda, Art in America, X-TRA, and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and has contributed to Artforum, Aperture, The Los Angeles Review of Books, e-flux journal, Art Papers, Affidavit, East of Borneo, WAX, Objektiv, The Brooklyn Rail, Kaleidoscope, CURA, The Guardian, Salon, and Garage/VICE, among others. He is currently online editor at X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. He has been a writer in residence at the Main Museum in Los Angeles, Critic in Residence at Otis College of Art and Design, and a visiting artist at the California Institute of the Arts. He is a recipient of the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2013) and a Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism (2018).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Metabolic Survivors: On McKenzie Wark’s “Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century”
Imagining alternatives without imagining the escape, erasure, or end of capitalism....
The Footmen of Liberalism
An unauthorized history of the world’s most vaunted digest of power shows the fatal assumptions within its magisterial voice....
After Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
Travis Diehl on the career of Jeff Coons....
Bleeding Horizons: "Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible"
Is biography ever enough? Even as it fills in the gaps of a rough-hewn life, a new exhibition of the paintings of Forrest Bess does more for a lurid fascination with his story than for an understanding of Bess's art....
