Quinn Latimer

Quinn Latimer is guest faculty for the Banff International Curatorial Institute residency – Critical Art Writing Ensemble.
Quinn Latimer is an American poet, critic, and editor based in Basel and Athens. She is the author of Rumored Animals (2012), which won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance (2013), which explores the work of Lucas as well as shame, palindromes, passivity, fertility statuary, Napoleon, Artaud, Beckett, and Sontag. A regular contributor to Artforum and a contributing editor to frieze, her writing also appears in many artist monographs and critical anthologies. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of Publications for documenta 14. Additionally, she is coeditor of Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder (2014); Olinka, or Where Movement Is Created (2013); Paul Sietsema: Interviews on Films and Works (2012); and No Core: Pamela Rosenkranz (2012). Her lecture-performances and video collaborations have also been included in exhibitions such as Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças, CRAC Alsace, France; Bungalow Germania, German Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy; Pleasure Principles, Fondation d’Enterprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris; and Gestures in Time, Qalandia International, Ramallah/Jerusalem. Curatorial projects include mood is made / temperature is taken (2014), Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Scotland, as well as read the room / you’ve got to (2014) and Emmy Moore’s Journal: An Exhibition Based on a Letter in a Short Story by Jane Bowles (2013), both at SALTS, Basel. Latimer teaches at Geneva’s Haute école d’art et de design.