Drive It All Over Me (S*I*G-Verlag, 2023), a long-form essay on text-based visual artworks by Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda, Vanessa Place, and Jack Goldstein. Commissioned by Chung and Maeda, the book concerns their work Bad Driver (2021), Jack Goldstein’s Selected Writings (1993–2000), and Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind (ca. 2009–15). Drive It All Over Me addresses broad themes of subtextual narrative, authorship, and identity while touching upon allegory, elaborately subtle jokes, and writing as a sculptural material. The book was published in English on July 7, 2023 and released at Maxwell Graham Gallery in New York on October 4, 2023. Drive It All Over Me has been sold in the U.S. at Petzel Gallery in New York and through Metalabel online; Somerset House in London, U.K.; After8 Books in Paris, France; Books AT in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Rile Books in Brussels, Belgium. A French translation was published as part of Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda’s Bad Driver (2024), a coproduction between mfc-michèle didier (Paris/Brussels) and the FRAC Lorraine (Metz, France).
Dreaming into Being: The Art of Suellen Rocca (Matthew Marks Gallery, 2022). A monographic essay held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library. This catalogue accompanied the first posthumous gallery exhibition of work by the Chicago Imagist painter Suellen Rocca. Rocca’s last two paintings, completed shortly before her untimely death in 2020, show her uniting the images of the torso of a woman with the hieroglyphic, pattern-like drawings that first appeared in her paintings more than 50 years earlier. This impulse to return to her past and to mine a personal lexicon of images is rooted in the artist’s intense desire to look carefully. As the artist told me in an interview published in 2018: “What I tell my students now is you need to look,” Rocca said, “because after we think we’ve seen things we don’t look at them anymore.”
“Endless Summer,” a catalogue essay for Private Fiction: Jan Vorisek (Lenz Press / Swiss Institute: 2025). Published as accompaniment to the 2021 Swiss Institute exhibition “No Sun.” Edited by Alison Coplan. Text by Brit Barton, Paige K. Bradley, Elisa R. Linn, Tyler Maxin.
Commission from the Hartwig Art Foundation in Amsterdam (NL) for their installation of Lily van der Stokker’s public artwork “Nothing Wall.” November 12, 2025.
“A collection that captures the revolutionary spirit of modernism,” editorial for Christie’s 20/21 Century auction week. November 5, 2025.
A feature on the work of Sylvie Fleury for the November/December 2025 issue of Frieze. October 29, 2025.
A short-form review of poet N. H. Pritchard’s first posthumous solo exhibition at Peter Freeman, Inc., New York; June 12–August 1 2025. Cultured, June 25, 2025.
“The Body’s Discontents: Carol Ramaç Erotic Fragments,” a feature essay for the Aspen Art Museum’s 2025 Summer Newspaper.
A short-form review of the reissue of Shulamith Firestone’s fiction collection Airless Spaces (1998, Semiotexte). The Whitney Review of New Writing, Issue 005, Spring/Summer 2025.
A short-form review of Bernadette Van-Huy’s film The ADHD Muses (2025). The Paris Review, May 23, 2025.
A short-form review of Julien Ceccaldi’s survey at MoMA PS1, New York; March 27–August 25, 2025. Cultured, April 30, 2025.
A profile of Anne Imhof on the occasion of her Park Avenue Armory commission “DOOM / House of Hope,” March 3–12, 2025. i-D (374, The Unknown Issue, March 2025).
A profile of Camille Henrot on the occasion of her debut solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, New York, January 30–April 12, 2025. Frieze, January 28, 2025.
A short-form review of Ian Miyamura’s debut solo exhibition at Bureau, New York; January 10–February 15, 2025. Cultured, January 22, 2025.
A short-form review of Juliana Halpert’s photographs of former Artforum publisher Knight Landesman’s office. Sebastian Gladstone Gallery, New York; October 5–31, 2024. New York Review of Architecture (#43/44, Nov/Dec 2024, Jan/Feb 2025).
Press release for Josephine Meckseper’s exhibition at Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany, September 13–November 15, 2024.
A review of Susan Cianciolo’s fourth solo exhibition at Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, May 31–July 27, 2024. Frieze (Issue 246, October 2024).
Contributor to the “New Mythologies” feature with Chris Kraus, Natasha Stagg, and Geoffrey Mak, among others, in Document Journal’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue.
“Piecing Together the Luster,” a catalogue essay for Kathy Butterly, Lynne Drexler, Marley Freeman (Karma, 2024).
A short-form review of Genzaburo Yoshino’s 1937 novel “How Do You Live?” The Whitney Review of New Writing, Issue 003, Spring/Summer 2024.
“Do You Feel Like This Is Helping You?,” an essay with my own illustrations on the rise of mycotopianism. Triple Canopy, February 8, 2024.
“Say What You Like,” an essay on Kaari Upson at Sprüth Magers, New York. Texte zur Kunst, January 26, 2024.
Press release for the exhibition “Holly Village II,” Derosia Gallery, New York, November 8–December 16, 2023.
An essay on Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (2022), the latest documentary on the 1970s-era musician Judee Sill. The New York Review of Books, October 26, 2023.
Press release for the exhibitions “Austin Martin White: Familiar Dysphoria / Lost in the Sauce,” Petzel Gallery / Derek Eller Gallery, New York, September 13–November 4, 2023.
“Band of Outsiders: Paige K. Bradley on angelicism01’s ‘film01’,” Artforum, June 17, 2023.
Press release for the exhibition “Corita Kent: Small Cosmos,” Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, April 12–May 23, 2023.
“On Site: Flaming Creatures, Paige K. Bradley on Lizzi Bougatsos,” Artforum (March 2023).
“Artists on Ecce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea,” a reading with Wayne Koestenbaum, Nayland Blake, Leidy Churchman, Paige K. Bradley, and Maryam Hoseini. Organized by Alex Kitnick at The Drawing Center, New York. October 27, 2022.
A profile of Montez Press Radio for Frieze (Issue 227, May 2022).
A feature review of Nicole-Antonia Spagnola’s exhibition “Anti-Genesis,” Artists Space, February 4–April 23, 2022. Topical Cream, February 24, 2022.
Catalogue essays on Barthélémy Toguo, Christine Sun Kim, and Tom Friedman for Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing (Phaidon, 2021).
A feature essay, “You Can(not) Re-Dress,” for Viscose Journal Issue 2 (November 2021). This text weaves together some of the research topics behind my artistic practice in a collaged style of writing that mirrors the formal qualities of conspiracy theory literature.
“Slant: A World of Pure Imagination, Paige K. Bradley on QAnon,” Artforum (October/November 2020).
“Q/A: Paige K. Bradley,” Spike Art Magazine, (Issue 62, Winter 2020).
“Openings: Flannery Silva,” Artforum (September 2018).
“Dennis Cooper’s Haunted HTML Novel,” a review of the writer's literary work with GIFs, Bookforum, April 10, 2015.
Older articles—including interviews, short-form writing, and events reporting—can be found mostly in the Artforum archive.