Ariel Goldberg (they/them) is a writer, curator, and photographer based in New York City. Goldberg’s books include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015), and their short-form writing has most recently appeared in Lucid Knowledge: On the Currency of the Photographic Image, Afterimage Journal, e-flux, Jewish Currents, Artforum, and Art in America. Their exhibition on photography’s relationship to spaces for learning, Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s was commissioned by the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial and will be on view at Leslie Lohman Museum of Art March-July 2023. Goldberg has curated public programs for over ten years at venues including The Poetry Project and Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center. With Noam Parness they co-curated Uncanny Effects: Robert Giard’s Currents of Connection (2020) at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. They were a 2020 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for their book-in-progress on trans and queer image cultures of the late 20th century. Goldberg has taught photography, writing, and contemporary art practices at Bard College, The New School, Pratt Institute, and Rutgers University.