Jillian McManemin is a writer, artist, and Founder of the Toppled Monuments Archive.
She has written for Hyperallergic, ART PAPERS, The Broadcast, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Art Agenda, Metrograph Editions, among other publications including forthcoming pieces with Texte zur Kunst. In 2022 she was Shortlisted for the Creative Capital Award and in 2018 was awarded the AICA-USA Art Writing Fellowship. She is currently working on her first book, Sculpture Kills, autotheory that centers around fatal works of contemporary art.
In June 2020 she founded the Toppled Monuments Archive (TMA), an international digital archive for recorded toppled and defaced monuments. The project grew into an international collective with over 40 members working at various capacities. TMA is a host organization for the NYU Latinx Project’s Public Humanities Fellowship and has several forthcoming publications, exhibitions, lectures, and educational workshops. A Gathering of the Tribes, a literary nonprofit based in NYC, is TMA’s fiscal sponsor.
Jillian has presented multimedia and performance work at The Whitney Museum, Anthology Film Archives, The MET Live Arts, The Poetry Project, Dixon Place, The Slipper Room, The Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Circe Theater, Invisible Exports, and the Knockdown Center. Her work has received press in The Smithsonian Magazine, Bloomberg Magazine, The New York Times, Art21, and Hyperallergic. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Turkish, Georgian, and German.
Her professional experience has focused on archives, digital archives, art studio management, and working at multiple capacities with independent presses. Notable experience and collaborations include: The Estate of David Smith, The Feminist Institute, Google Arts and Culture, Judith Bernstein Studio, Dread Scott Studio, Hauser & Wirth, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and Saul Ostrow’s press CPInprint.
For a list of freelance services, rates, and other inquiries please email: studio@jillianmcmanemin.com
For all Toppled Monuments Archive inquires email: toppledmonumentsarchive@gmail.com