Momus Critical Writing Fellowship 2023-2024

Rahel Aima is a writer based in Dubai. She was an associate editor and remains a frequent contributor to Momus, and her writing has appeared in or at 4 Columns, Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, ArtReview, The Atlantic, Bidoun, Bookforum, e-flux architecture, Frieze, Garage, Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia, Mousse, New Republic, Real Life, Rest of World, Tank, Vogue Arabia, and World Policy Journal, among many others. Aima regularly contribute exhibition texts, catalogue essays, and book chapters.

Jessica Lynne is a writer and art critic. She is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Artforum, the Believer, Frieze, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and Oxford American, where she was a contributing editor. She was an Editor at Momus from 2022-25. Lynne is the recipient of a 2020 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and a 2020 Arts Writer Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation. She is the inaugural recipient of the Beverly Art Writers Travel Grant awarded in 2022 by the American Australian Association.

Kira Xonorika is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer. Her work explores the connections between futurism, AI collaboration, trans and queer temporalities, dynamics between the Global North and South, indigenous sovereignty, internet aesthetics, and Web3. They edited an issue of the GenderIT journal titled “Trans Perspectives on Technology & Politics from Latin America.” Their writing has been published by e-flux, Cambridge University, and Tonantzin. They have recently given lectures at King’s College London, the University of Eau Claire, and the University of Buenos Aires.

Cassie Packard is a Brooklyn-based art writer interested in the intersection of visual culture and queerness, networks, and worlding. She has bylines at publications including Art in America, Artforum, ArtReview, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Financial Times, frieze, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Inquiry, among others. She has contributed several catalogue essays and exhibition texts, and her first book is forthcoming from Frances Lincoln. A member of the International Association of Art Critics, Packard was a 2022 Recess Critical Writing Fellow and a 2019 Fellow in the Art & Law Program. She was previously a researcher at Hauser & Wirth and holds an MA in Art History from University College London and a BA in Art History from Brown University.

Doreen A. Rios is an independent curator and researcher based in Mexico City. Her work focuses on digital art, post-digital practices, and new materialities. Ríos is founder and director of [ANTI]MATERIA, an online platform dedicated to the research and exhibition of art produced through digital media. From 2019 to 2021 she was chief curator at Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico City and is currently part of the international selectors committee for the Lumen Art Prize. She VJs at Minipixel, conducts experimental research at Unidad de Conciencias Colectivas Terrestres, and teaches at CENTRO and Universidad Anáhuac. Ríos holds a MA in Contemporary Curating with a specialization in digital cultures from Winchester School of Arts and a degree in Architecture from Tecnológico de Monterrey.