Stephanie Cristello
Editor-in-Chief, THE SEEN

Stephanie Cristello is a curator, writer, and contemporary art critic living in Chicago, IL. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of THE SEEN, Chicago’s International Journal of Contemporary & Modern Art, currently serves as the Artistic Director of EXPO CHICAGO, and Director / Curator at Chicago Manual Style. She was previously the Senior Editor US for ArtSlant (2012–2018), and her writing has been published in the London-based publications ArtReview, Elephant Magazine, and Frieze Magazine, as well as BOMB Magazine, OSMOS, Mousse Magazine, and Portable Gray, published by the University of Chicago Press. Her texts have been published numerous exhibition catalogues nationally and internationally. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 with a Liberal Arts Thesis in the Visual Critical Studies Department. Her forthcoming books are Theodora Allen: Saturnine (Motto, 2020) and Barbara Kasten: Architecture and Film 2015–2020 (Skira, 2021). She is currently serving as the Curatorial Advisor for the Busan Biennale 2020, and a Guest Curator at Kunsthal Aarhus 2020–21.
Participating in
Artist Studio: Barbara Kasten — On Blueness
Join EXPO CHICAGO Artistic Director and author Stephanie Cristello for this intimate conversation with renowned Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten. Working for over 40 years, Kasten often uses mirrors, lights, and props for conceptually-based pieces that are inspired by the act of recording a three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional plane. Spanning her work with cyanotypes, and […] More information →
A Tale of Today: Nate Young & Mika Horibuchi
This panel will explore how historic house museums can leverage their architectures and legacies to connect the past with the present. The site-specific work of Young and Horibuchi draws on family, history, architecture, and museum practices to examine the way house museums can bridge our understanding of the past to current discourses on representation, truth, […] More information →
/Dialogues | On Viruses — Critical Theories of Contagion
Artists and writers discuss the implications of viruses as a metaphor and a reality in our current moment. How can we learn from the behavior of viral organisms (the microscopic) to rethink how we approach societal structures (the macroscopic)? More information →