ESSAYS & CRITICISM

“Dispossession.” Thinking from Black: A Lexicon. Tina Campt, Christina Sharpe, Kaiama Glover, Canisia Lubrin, Tavia N’yongo, and Alexander G. Weheliye (eds.). Random House Canada, 2026.

Loophole of Retreat. Simone Leigh (ed.). Pacific Books, 2026.

“The Black Residuum, or That Which Remains.” Glenn Ligon. Huey Copeland (ed.). October Files. MIT Press, 2026.

“Martin Puryear: Refractions of the Historical Present.” Martin Puryear: Nexus. Cleveland and New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art, with distribution by Yale University Press, 2025.

“Choreographing Nothing: On Black Anteriority: Deborah-Joyce Holman and Rizvana Bradley in Conversation,” e-flux (24 March 2025).

Contributor to 52 Walker Special Edition Zine. Julius Eastman & Glenn Ligon: Evil Nigger Exhibition. January 23 – March 21, 2025. New York, New York.

“Awaiting Her Verb: Simone Leigh’s Video Art,” Simone Leigh. DelMonico Books and the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, 2023.

“The Critique of Form (excerpted from Anteaesthetics),” e-flux, Issue #140, November 2023.

“Raven Leilani: On writing black interiority,” The Yale Review, Volume 111, No. 2, Summer 2023.

“The Difficulty of Black Women (A Response),” Artforum (20 December 2022).

(with Denise Ferreira da Silva) “Four Theses on Aesthetics,” e-flux, Issue #120, September 2021.

“Picturing Catastrophe: The Visual Politics of Racial Reckoning,” The Yale Review, Volume 109, Number 2,Summer 2021.

“The Weathering of Form: Jennifer Packer’s Abstract Figures,” in Melissa Blanchflower and Natalia Grabowska (eds.), Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing. London: Serpentine Galleries, 2020.

“Incalculable Lives,” in Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz (ed.), Health. London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2020.

“The Vicissitudes of Touch: Annotations on the Haptic,” b2o review. 21 November 2020.

“A Gathering of Aporetic Form,” e-flux, Issue #105, December 2019.

“Regard for One Another: Rizvana Bradley in Conversation with Saidiya Hartman,” Los Angeles Review of Books.
9 October 2019.

“Candice Lin’s Minor Ecologies,” in Lotte Arndt and Yesomi Umolu (eds.), Candice Lin, A Hard White Body. Chicago: Logan Center for the Arts / University of Chicago Press, 2019.

“Helen Cammock: History’s Long Score,” in Laura Smith, Candy Stobbs, and Wells Fray-Smith (eds.), Helen Cammock: Che si può fare (What can be done). London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2019.

Cuts/Folds/Refusals, in On Refusal, Representation, and Resistance in Contemporary American Art. MAC Belfast, 2019, 19-23.

“On Mimi Cherono Ng’ok,” in Gabi Ngcobo (curator), 10th Berlin Biennale 2018 Catalogue: We Don't Need Another Hero. Berlin: The Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2018.

“Zina Saro-Wiwa: performing table manners in 21st century Nigeria,” Art | Basel, 2018.

“The Quiet Bohemia of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye,” Parkett, Vol. 99, 2017.

“Ways of the Flesh: Barbara Hammer's Vertical Worlds,” in Staci Bu Shea and Carmel Curtis (eds.), Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies. Chicago: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art / University of Chicago Press, 2018, 56-59.

“Aesthetic Inhumanisms: Toward an Erotics of Otherworlding,” in Johanna Burton and Natalie Bell (eds.), Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. New York: The New Museum, 2018, 195-203.

“The Time of Descent,” in Charlotte Ickes (curator), Descent, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia, 2016.