Brit Barton is an artist, writer, and editor based in Zürich. 

She is interested in criticism as a discursive, expansive genre as it relates to 
contemporary art practices and conceptual discourse. 

She is the founder and editor of Art & Order Journal and Relative Press
two projects that correlate to time, both as concurrent and long-term publication practices. 




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Selected Writings, PROJECTS, AND PROGRAMMING


2025

Review: “So to Speak: On Niloufar Emamifar at Progetto” Art and Order Journal, online

Review: “On Lauryn Youden at Circuit Lausanne” Frieze, online

Reading: “The Sitting Ovation Sessions: On Silence” with Max Guy, Good Weather, Chicago, transcript/audio forthcoming

Reading: “The Sitting Ovation Sessions: On Certainty” with Jennifer Teets, Agence de Voyage, Paris

Essay: “My Roman Empire” Jan Vorisek at Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Swiss Institute catalogue*

Review: “On Henrik Olesen and Isidore Isou” Frieze, no. 254 (August 2025), online

Reading: “The Sitting Ovation Sessions: Artists and Writers/Writers and Artists” with: Angharad Williams, Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, Katharina Hausladen, Mira Mann, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. Event series presented at the Swiss Art Awards, Basel. June 17-19, 2025

Publication: “Sitting Ovation: A Study in Slow Criticism” with: Angharad Williams, Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, Katharina Hausladen, Mira Mann, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, edited by Brit Barton, edition of 300. Not for sale

Profile: “The Risk Analyst: On Virginia Ariu” Mousse Magazine, no. 92 (June 2025), online

Essay: “Quick to Feel, Slow to Say: Five Texts on Unstructured Feeling”, Untitled ETH publication

Lecture: “The Hidden Texts of Lauren Berlant” with Waves at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich

Review: “Past Tense, Present Tensions: On Mathias Poledna” Texte zur Kunst


2024

Review: “On Ian Penman’s Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors” The Public Review, online

Essay: “City Slicker” Max Guy at the Renaissance Society, The Renaissance Society catalogue* 

Lecture: “Power, Corruption, Lies: On Andrea Fraser at LUMA Westbau” at the University of Zürich

Review: “Horror Patriae: Steirischer Herbst ’24, Graz” Mousse Magazine, online

Essay: “Pope.L 1955-2023” Texte zur Kunst, no. 134 (June 2024)*

Essay: “Sleights of Hand and Circumstance” Karen Moser at Stadtgalerie Bern, Stadtgalerie catalogue*    

Letter: “An Encapsulated Audience: On Jan Vorisek” PW Magazine, online


2023

Review: “Interdependencies at Migros Museum” Mousse Magazine, online

Essay: “Push Comes to Shove: Fugacity at Linnahall” PROVENCE*

Essay: “A Review of a Review Makes it a Feature: with Iris Touliatou” PROVENCE*

Review: “False Friends: On Iris Touliatou’s Gift at the Kunsthalle Basel” The Public Review, online

Discussion: “On Video Art Today” with Ian Wooldridge at Blue Velvet Projects

Reading: “Pippa Garner: Selected Readings” with Hard to Read at the Kunsthalle Zürich


2022

Profile: “Don’t Flinch: On B. Ingrid Olsen” Mousse, no. 82 (December 2022), online

Review: “Autoerotics: Pippa Garner at Kunstverein München” Texte zur Kunst, online

Essay: “The Anxiety of Autobiography: Trajal Harrell” PAJ: MIT Press, vol. 44, no. 3 (Sept. 2022)*

Review: “Monotonous Methods: Dora Budor” Texte zur Kunst, no. 126 (June 2022)*

Review: “Sisyphus in Vortex: Laura Grisi” Texte zur Kunst, no. 126 (March 2022)*


*PDF available upon request


Education, Awards, and Fellowships


2024         

Swiss Art Awards: Critique, Publishing, Exhibition (Laureate)

2018         

Chicago Manual of Style Certificate, Graham School at the University of Chicago 

2016 - 2018     

Inaugural Artist Award and Fellowship, the Arts Club of Chicago

2017 - 2018     

Teaching Fellowship, the University of Chicago, Department of Visual Art 

2016         

Master Fine Art, the University of Chicago, Department of Visual Art 

Thesis advisors: William Pope.L and Matthew Jesse Jackson, Ph.D. 

2011         

Bachelor Fine Art, Texas State University, School of Art and Design

Major: Photography, Double minor: Philosophy, Honors Studies