2022
BOMB Magazine, “‘Imagining a World Creates It’: Amber Robles-Gordon Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
Painting meets found objects and assemblage.
Pen + Brush Gallery
Deborah Jack 20 Years Catalogue
Contributed Essay: “One Million Lakes: The Parallel Universes of Deborah Jack’s Praxis”
BOMB Magazine, “Time and Distance Cannot Shrink It: Alisha B. Wormsley Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
Film and sound that create decolonized safe spaces.
BOMB Magazine, “This Little Light of Mine (I Am Gonna Let It—): Stephen Towns Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
Paintings and quilts that depict Black labors.
BOMB Magazine, “Love-Thoughts and Freshwater: dream hampton Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
The Detroit-born filmmaker on her recent experimental short about remembrance, flooding basements, and maintaining connections in the wake of climate catastrophe.
BOMB Magazine, “Are You Asked To Identify Yourself Often?: Aya Rodriguez-Izumi Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
Documenting Okinawan narratives.
2021
MACK Books
Nona Faustine’s Monograph White Shoes
Contributed Essay: “I Cried Power (Power, Lord): The Afrofantastique in Nona Faustine’s White Shoes”
BOMB Magazine, “What Is Normal?—Visual Art.”
For this year-end list, BOMB asked Amelia Rina, Cassie Packard, Danni Shen, Jareh Das, Jessica Lanay, Louis Bury, Monica Uszerowicz, Naomi Falk, Osman Can Yerebakan, and William J. Simmons to address the question: “What Is Normal?”
BOMB Magazine, “To Know Your Family So Specifically: Jeannette Ehlers Interviewed by Jessica Lanay".
On confronting colonial amnesia and the smothering of Black history.
BOMB Magazine, “‘O my body, make of me always a man who questions!’: Shikeith Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
Photography, sculpture, installation, and performance that illuminate Black queer experience.
BOMB Magazine, “Girls Just Want to Have: Shiva Sanjari Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
The filmmaker discusses her documentaries on Iranian women resisting the current of tradition.
BOMB Magazine, “I Have Had Enough Conversations To Know That Flowers Sell: Jeffrey Augustine Songco Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
Objects and installations that redirect symbolic systems.
BOMB Magazine, “In Some Far-off Place, Many Light Years in Space, I’ll Wait for You: Mikael Owunna Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
Photographs that aim to reflect the divine nature of Blackness.
BOMB Magazine, “Mare Incognitum/Unknown Sea: Deborah Jack Interviewed by Jessica Lanay.”
Imaging bodies in contested landscapes.
The Andy Warhol Museum
Fantasy America exhibition catalog
Exhibition curated by Jose Diaz
Washington Project for the Arts
Black Women as/and The Living Archive exhibition catalog essay “Morivivi”
Exhibition curated by Tsedaye Makonnen
2019
BOMB Magazine, “What’s Going On? (Or Some Violence to Get Some Good: An Interview with Ben Jones”
BOMB Magazine, “Three Angles (or Sometimes You Catch a Crocodile): El Anatsui and Dee Briggs Interviewed”
BOMB Magazine, “Two-Way Gaze: Devon Shimoyama’s Cry, Baby” (Review)
2018
BOMB Magazine, “There is Life and Death in the Power of the Tongue: Vanessa German Interview”
BOMB Magazine, “Controlled Chaos: Howardena Pindell Interview”
BOMB Magazine, “Fuck it Let’s Boogie (Or Everything Will Be Taken Away) Adrian Piper Retrospective Review”
BOMB Magazine, “Another Kind of Living Life (or Those Who Do Not Dance Will Have to Be Shot): Radcliffe Bailey: Travelogue Reviewed”
ArtSlant, “For the Culture: Towards Curating a Black Art by Aesthetic, Not Struggle” (Essay/Critique)
ArtSlant, “Creatures Like Us: The Drawings of David Rios Ferreira” SPRING/BREAK Art Catalog; David Rios Ferreira ArtSlant Prize IX winner.
2017
ArtSlant, “Sprawling Group Shows Deny Black Artists the Space and Time They Deserve”
ArtSlant, “LaToya Ruby Frazier Interviewed by Jessica Lanay”
ArtSlant, “Intimate Debris: Nature, Industry, and the Body in the Photography of LaToya Ruby Frazier”
ArtSlant, “Ayana V. Jackson’s Photographs Are Monuments to History’s Unmemorialized Black Women”
ArtSlant, “Beloved Sculptor Thaddeus Mosley on 91 Years of Carving His Own Path”
BOMB Magazine, “From Metal to Mettle: An Interview with Sandra Gould Ford”