Jillian McManemin
Jillian McManemin is a writer living in Los Angeles.
She’s a contributing editor at BOMB Magazine. She writes the Substack Art & Power and writes essays and reviews for publications like Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Texte zur Kunst, and Ursula. She was shortlisted for the Creative Capital Award in 2022 and 2025, and read her work at the 2022 Whitney Biennial.
In 2020, she founded the Toppled Monuments Archive, an international digital archive documenting monument removals and defacements.
Her professional experience includes archival and editorial work with the Estate of David Smith, Judith Bernstein Studio, and editorial work including David Smith's catalogue raisonné, publications for The Drawing Center, Hauser & Wirth, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
She is represented by Ed Maxwell at the Transatlantic Agency.