Christina Schmid - October-November 2025

Christina Schmid is a writer who thinks with art and experiments with prose. Her arts writing unfolds at the intersection of journalism, scholarship, and creative non-fiction. Through art, her work engages with the ways cultural narratives shape experiences and encounters, delves into ethics, the politics of immigration, feminism, queer ecology, practices of belonging, and wherever else art takes her. As a writer, she is interested in the materiality of text, haptic criticism, and the ways art can embody, archive, and generate ideas. Her essays and reviews have been published online and in print, in anthologies, journals, zines, artist books, and exhibition catalogs. She works at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Art in Minneapolis where she teaches contemporary art, critical practice and theory. She has been a finalist for the Rabkin Prize in Art Writing and the Andy Warhol Foundation's Award for Short Form Arts Writing. She is a recipient of a MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant for Creative Prose.