Ariel Goldberg photographed as the 2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow for the New York Public Library

Ariel Goldberg is a writer, curator, and educator devoted to trans and queer lineages and lesser-known histories of photography. Goldberg’s books include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). Their exhibition on photography’s relationship to spaces for learning, Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s was on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in NYC, and the Chicago Cultural Center from 2022-2024. Goldberg was a recipient of the 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Book Grant and a 2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library, to support their book-in-progress on trans and queer image cultures of the late 20th century.

Goldberg has curated public programs for over fifteen years 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 on photography and culture has appeared in Lucid Knowledge: On the Currency of the Photographic Image, Afterimage Journal, e-flux, and Jewish Currents. Goldberg’s work has been supported by the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and SOMA in Mexico City.

Goldberg has taught photography, writing, and contemporary art practices independently and at Bard College, The New School, New York University, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, and Rutgers University. They are a proud member of Academics Come Together-United Auto Workers (ACT-UAW) 7902. Goldberg is in the Winter 2025 Apprenticeship Program at the New York Peace Institute and works independently as a Conflict Mediator.

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