bio
Rachel Wolff is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and critic with substantial experience covering the New York City art world. After earning an undergraduate degree in magazine journalism and modern/contemporary art history from Northwestern University, she served as the art listings editor and art beat reporter New York magazine. She parlayed this experience into feature writing at ARTnews, where she was soon hired as an associate editor. Rachel left ARTnews in 2009 to pursue freelance writing and editing opportunities. She has since become one of the most sought-after writers in the field.
Rachel has written about art and design for New York, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Departures, Details, Town & Country, Condé Nast Traveler, Glamour, Marie Claire, Bloomberg Businessweek, ArchitecturalDigest.com, W, The Daily Beast, Manhattan, Chicago Magazine, SaksPOV.com, 1stdibs.com, Bal Harbour, Cultured, ARTnews, Art + Auction, and Modern Painters, where she serves as a contributing editor. She has covered exhibitions of Impressionist, Modern, Postwar, and Contemporary art around the world and has penned essays and profiles about such artists and curators as Lucas Samaras, Keith Haring, Louise Lawler, Wynn Chamberlain, Jeff Koons, Sue Williams, Brion Gysin, Jules de Balincourt, Amy Sillman, Kalup Linzy, Massimiliano Gioni, Francesco Bonami, Nathalie Djurberg, Joyce Pensato, Cindy Sherman, Pier Paolo Calzolari, and Damien Hirst, in addition to many up-and-comers. She is a member of the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics and an alum of the NEA’s International Arts Journalism Institute in Visual Arts. She has contributed to various exhibition catalogues and panel discussions.
Rachel is also one-half of SandenWolff, a boutique production company specializing in short films about art and design. For inquiries, please contact: rachel@sandenwolff.com.
