Hrag Vartanian (he/they) is a writer, curator, artist, and the co-founder and editor-at-large of Hyperallergic, which he launched in Brooklyn in 2009 and helped build into one of the most widely read art publications in the world. They believe art is never neutral, and write accordingly. Their writing and curatorial work often engage diasporic culture and the ways displaced communities make meaning in America, while their own visual practice extends the same questions off the page. He lectures widely on contemporary art and criticism, has held visiting critic positions at institutions across North America, and in 2024 received the Rabkin Foundation’s Susan C. Larsen Lifetime Achievement Award for arts writing.
