Emily Alesandrini

Emily Alesandrini is a writer, curator, and art historian working in New Orleans and New York. Her research concerns contemporary representations of race and gender with a particular focus on aesthetics of opacity, ornament, and the diasporic body in art by women and artists of color. She is the founding editor of Slip magazine and her writing has appeared in ARTnews, The Offing, Burnaway, and BOMB, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues. Alesandrini participated in Burnaway’s 2023 Arts Writing Incubator. She was a 2025 AICA Art Critic Fellow, a 2025 Momus summer resident, and an Andy Warhol Short Form Art Writing grant winner. Alesandrini graduated from Smith College, earned her MA in Art History from Tulane University, and continues her studies as a doctoral student in Art History at Bryn Mawr College.