Siddhartha Mitter is a writer on contemporary art and its social and civic dimensions. He writes in-depth artist profiles, features and reviews. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, reporting across the United States and in Africa, Europe and South America. He has also written for Artforum, Art in America and many other publications within and beyond the art field. He also engages with artists and art workers through talks, studio visits, catalogue essays and public programmes. On the African continent he has covered art practices or collaborated with artists in Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa. Siddhartha is currently Editor-in-Chief for the catalogue of the 2026 Venice Biennale and a member of the project team executing the late Koyo Kouoh’s vision for the Biennale.
Trained in the social sciences, Siddhartha has worked in culture journalism for two decades. He received a Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant in 2017, delivered the AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture in 2022, and received a Rabkin Prize for art writing in 2024. He lives in New York City.
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