Contact: caryn@caryncoleman.com
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Caryn Coleman is a curator and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She currently works in the Cinema Department at Nitehawk Cinema and is the Curator for the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts’ Art & Law Residency. She is the co-editor of the bi-annual journal Incognitum Hactenus and writes the blog on horror and contemporary art The Girl Who Knew Too Much. Recent projects include the artist film screenings The Art of Fear and Sparkmarker. Upcoming exhibitions include On the Desperate Edge of Now at the Dumbo Arts Center (February 2013), Empty Distances at Mark Moore Gallery (June 2013) and Contagious Allegories: horror cinema and contemporary art in Los Angeles.
Coleman owned the art gallery sixspace in Los Angeles (2002-2008) and in Chicago (1998-2000). She has worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and provided exhibition/publication research to Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery. In addition to founding the seminal art.blogging.la, she has written for Brighton Photo Fringe, LUX (Artist Moving Agency), Fangoria.com, Rue Morgue, Network Awesome, The Modernist, Art Review online, Beautiful Decay, and the Los Angeles Weekly.
Coleman received her MFA in Curating with distinction from Goldsmiths College in London.