CONTACT
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WRITING

Domenick Ammirati is a writer whose art criticism has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, Mousse, Dis, Afterall, and elsewhere. His writing on music and books has appeared in a variety of publications including The Los Angeles Review of Books, Dot Dot Dot, Bookforum, and Index. He served as an editor on Documenta 14 and is a past senior editor at Modern Painters magazine and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Domenick Ammirati's fiction has appeared in venues including Bomb, Tammy, and Plazm magazines. An excerpt from his novel-in-progress The Bottom of the Top was awarded an honorable mention in the 2017 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition. A past fellow at Denniston Hill, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation, he is at work on a collection of stories.

Domenick is currently seeking representation :-/

EDITING

Domenick Ammirati is an editor whose many book credits include member: Pope.L, 1978–2001 (2019) for the Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Biennial 2019, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night (2018), Laura Poitras: Astro Noise (2016), and others for the Whitney Museum of American Art; and other works including Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence (2019), Agnes Martin: Night Sea (2016), Dara Birnbaum: The Dark Matter of Media Light (2011), and Mary Ellen Carroll (2010).

As senior editor at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, he edited volumes including On Kawara--Silence (2015), Gutai: Splendid Playground (2013), Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective (2012), Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance (2010), Grey Area: Julie Mehretu (2009), and The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum. He was founding editor of the Guggenheim Museum website and the Guggenheim Forum online discussion series.

OTHER

Domenick Ammirati makes occasional work in other creative modes including screenwriting, visual/conceptual art, and performance.