Ariel Goldberg photographed as a 2023/24 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow for the New York Public Library

Ariel Goldberg is a writer, curator, and photographer working with trans and queer lineages in photography. Goldberg’s books include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). Goldberg is a 2023-2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library. Their exhibition on photography’s relationship to spaces for learning, Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s opened at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, co-presented with The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in NYC, where the show traveled in 2023. Images… arrived to the Chicago Cultural Center, or “People’s Palace” in 2024.

Goldberg has curated public programs at venues including Magnum Foundation, The Poetry Project, and Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center. With Noam Parness, they co-curated Uncanny Effects: Robert Giard’s Currents of Connection (2020) at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Their writing has appeared in Lucid Knowledge: On the Currency of the Photographic Image, Afterimage Journal, e-flux, Jewish Currents, Artforum, and Art in America. Goldberg’s work has been supported by the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, New York Public Library Research Rooms, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and SOMA in Mexico City. They were a 2020 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for their book-in-progress on trans and queer image cultures of the late 20th century. Goldberg has taught photography, writing, and contemporary art practices at Bard College, The New School, New York University, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, and Rutgers University. 

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