Seph Rodney. 
Official Website of the Art Critic, Writer, Curator, and Museum Researcher

Seph Rodney, PhD is an arts writer and editor who also curates visual art exhibitions. After several years at Hyperallergic, first as a staff writer and then as an senior art critic and opinions editor, he went freelance and has written on art and culture for The New York Times, CNN, NBC, The Guardian, Art Forum, and Art in America. He wrote The Personalization of the Museum Visit, which was published by Routledge in 2019. In 2025 the book he co-edited Artists as Writers: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life was published by Intellect Press. In 2024 he co-curated the largest show to date mounted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which subsequently traveled to Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, and the Pérez Museum in Miami.

 

He is now at work on a book about learning how to look at art, tentatively titled A Certain Minor Light. He currently teaches a course on art criticism at Brown University.

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"It’s rare to encounter a critique that is as intellectually rigorous as it is emotionally vulnerable. You ask big questions, and you ask them with tenderness, which I appreciate deeply."
– Amy Sherald