MICHAEL SLENSKE is an award-winning writer and independent curator based in Los Angeles. He has been a contributing writer and editor at Los Angeles, 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 2022 SoCal Journalism Award; and his April 2023 profile of Henry Taylor for LA Mag was named a finalist for the 16th NAEJ Awards and recently won a SoCal Journalism Award. 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, The Atlantic, Vice, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Garage, Mother Jones, Frieze, 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 first two issues of The WrapBook.

Between 2018 and 2023, Slenske ran the artist pop-up and happening The Street & The Shop (@thestreetandtheshopla), which he staged at various galleries, studios, and architecturally significant spaces around Los Angeles including the Paramount Backlot as part of Frieze LA, Tin Flats, Arnoldi Studio, Witke Shop, and the landmark Bradbury Building in collaboration with NeueHouse. The Street & The Shop also launched a collaboration between Lizzie Mandler Jewelry and Vincent Pocsik during LA Art Week 2024.

Slenske has curated the group shows L.A. On Fire and Water & Flower at Wilding Cran Gallery; Object Lessons at a Frank Gehry loft overlooking Venice Beach with The Landing Gallery; Storm Before the Calm at Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles; Signal to Noise at Diane Rosenstein Gallery; Northern Exposure (co-curated 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 also organized solo shows for Aryo Toh Djojo, Charles Arnoldi, Drake Carr, Ellen Jong, Emily Marchand, Eric McHenry, Fawn Rogers Hely Omar Gonzalez, Jeremy Shockley, Martin Nuñez, Nick Taggart, Robert Gunderman, and Theodore Boyer and co-curated the Los Angeles edition of DRIVE-BY-ART with Warren Neidich, Renee Petropoulos, and Anuradha Vikram. He is currently curating Michelle Blade: The River opening in November 2025 at Powerlong Museum in Shanghai.

Slenske is the founding director of Untitled Art, Houston, which launched its inaugural edition in September 2025 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. During the fair week he also produced the performance The Sea is Within Me by Lita and Jasmine Albuquerque at the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern.