Rachel Valinsky is a writer, editor, and translator living in New York. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Wendy’s Subway, a nonprofit arts and literary reading room, writing space, and independent publisher, and Director of Publications at the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances in New York. Previously, she was an editor at Primary Information.
Rachel has edited over fifty publications, including artist’s books, reprints and facsimiles, monographs, anthologies and essay collections, and books of poetry and fiction. Her writing and criticism have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, frieze,e-flux criticism, Movement Research Performance Journal, PAJ: Performance Art Journal, TextWork and elsewhere, and been published by the Berlinale International Film Festival, Danspace Project, Sternberg Books, among others. Her translations have appeared from Semiotext(e), Éditions Lutanie, Pluto Press, and Éditions 1989. She has curated exhibitions, performances, and public programs at The Kitchen, The Queens Museum; the Poetry Project, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Rachel holds an MPhil in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and has taught courses in art history, performance studies, art writing, and critical thinking at New York University, The New School, Parsons, Hunter College, and Queens College.