Michael Slenske

MICHAEL SLENSKE is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor and curator. He has been a contributing writer and editor at Los Angeles magazine, Modern Painters, Art + Auction, Galerie, Architectural Digest, Interiors, and the Los Angeles Times's DesignLA and served as the editor-at-large of CULTURED and LALA, which he helped to launch. His profile of Celeste Dupuy-Spencer in the January 2022 issue of Los Angeles magazine was awarded a National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club; his report on the censoring of Ben Sakoguchi’s work at the Orange County Museum of Art’s California Biennial was nominated for a 2023 SoCal Journalism Award; and his April 2023 profile of Henry Taylor for LA Mag was recently named a finalist for the 16th National A&E Journalism Awards. His work has also been included in numerous artist books—for Abraham Cruzvillegas, Bari Ziperstein, Kenny Scharf, and Jose Dávila among others—and his feature writing has appeared in: New York, W, WSJ., Wallpaper*, AUTRE, Sotheby's, Gagosian Quarterly, The Magazine Antiques, Art & Antiques, Interview, Art in America, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Garage, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, artinfo.com, vulture.com, and artsy.net. Recently, Slenske organized a series of artist commissions for the Oscars issue of The Hollywood Reporter and the inaugural issue of The WrapBook.

For the past five years Slenske has run the artist pop-up and happening The Street & The Shop (@thestreetandtheshopla), which has been staged at various galleries, studios, and architecturally significant spaces around Los Angeles including the Paramount Backlot as part of Frieze LA, Tin Flats, Witke Shop, the Bradbury Building in collaboration with NeueHouse. The Street & The Shop also recently launched a collaboration between Lizzie Mandler Jewelry and Vincent Pocsik.

Slenske has also curated the group shows L.A. On Fire at Wilding Cran Gallery; Object Lessons with The Landing Gallery; All Tomorrow’s Parties at domicile (n.) gallery; Storm Before the Calm at Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles; Signal to Noise at Diane Rosenstein Gallery; Northern Exposure with Margot Ross at the Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles during LA Art Week 2024; and The Art of Oscar at Jeffrey Deitch. He has organized solo shows for Charles Arnoldi, Emily Marchand, Jeremy Shockley, Aryo Toh Djojo, Robert Gunderman, Martin Nuñez, Hely Omar Gonzalez, and Fawn Rogers and co-curated the Los Angeles edition of DRIVE-BY-ART with Warren Neidich, Renee Petropoulos, and Anuradha Vikram.

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