Monographs
2025 |
Arthur Jafa, Flora Katz, and Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Arthur Jafa: Live Evil (Arles: LUMA Foundation; Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2025) (exh. cat.) |
2024 |
Arthur Jafa, ***** (New York (NY): Gladstone Gallery, 2024) (exh. booklet) |
2021 |
Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, and Arthur Jafa (eds.), Arthur Jafa: Magnumb (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021) (exh. cat.) |
2020 |
Cahiers d’Art – Arthur Jafa (Paris: Editions Cahier d’Art, 2020) Arthur Jafa: Uma Serie de Prestacoes (Porto: Fundação de Serralves, 2020) (exh. cat.) |
2018 |
Arthur Jafa, Amira Gad, and Joseph Constable, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Berlin: The Stoschek Foundation; London: Serpentine Galleries; The Store X, 2018) (exh. cat.) |
2016 |
Arthur Jafa, Love is The Message, The Message is Death (New York (NY): Gavin Brown’s Enterprise; Los Angeles (CA): TNEG, 2016) |
2015 |
Arthur Jafa, My Black Death (New York (NY): Publication Studio Hudson; Pilot Editions, 2015) |
Selected Publications
2025 |
Sam Keller, Mouna Mekouar, Isabela Mora, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Precious Okoyomon, Philippe Parreno, and Tino Sehgal (eds.), Cloud Chronicles (Basel: Fondation Beyeler; Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2025) (exh. cat.) Emma Lavigne, Alexandra Bordes, Nicolas-Xavier Ferrand, Jean-François Allain, Anna Knight, and Jo Nicoud-Garden, Corps et Ames: Pinault Collection (Bourse de Commerce, 5TH March - 25 August 2025) (Paris: Editions Dilecta; Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, 2025) (exh. cat.) Simon Hunegs and Charlotte Flint (eds.), Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art (London: Phaidon Press, 2025) |
2024 |
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys (London: Phaidon Press; New York (NY): Brooklyn Museum, 2024) (exh. cat.) Alex Gartenfeld, Gean Moreno, Amanda Morgan, and Stephanie Seidel (eds.), Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami's Collection (New York (NY): DelMonico Books/D.A.P, 2024) (exh. cat.) Maria Elena Ortiz, Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (Fort Wirth (TX): Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth; New York (NY): DelMonico Books, 2024) (exh. cat.) |
2023 |
Saisha Grayson, Musical Thinking: New Video Art & Sonic Strategies (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2023) Kathryn E. Delmez (ed.), Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage (Nashville (TN): Frist Art Museum, 2023) (exh. cat.) Monika Bayer-Wermuth, This Is Me, This Is You: The Eva Felten Photography Collection (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2023) (exh. cat.) Alison Hearst, I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and The Digital Screen (Fort Wirth (TX): Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth; New York (NY): DelMonico Books, 2024) (exh. cat.) Christine Y Kim and Myrtle Elizbeth Andrews (eds.), Black American Portraits: From The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles (CA): LACMA; New York (NY): DelMonico Books, 2023) (exh. cat.) Uros Cvoro and Kit Messham-Muir, Images of War In Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict In The Mass Media (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023) Katrina Schwartz (ed.), Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023: Bieke Depoorter, Samuel Fosso, Arthur Jafa, Frida Orupabo (London: The Photographers’ Gallery, 2023) (exh. cat.) Tina Campt, A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2023) |
2022 |
Patrizia Dander, Susanne Huber, and Franziska Linhardt (eds.), Future Bodies From a Recent Past (Munich: Museum Brandhorst; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2022) (exh. cat.) Rehema C. Barber and Larry Ossei-Mensah, Unmasking Masculinity For The 21st Century (Kalamazoo (MI): Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 2022) (exh. cat.) |
2021 |
Lisa Long, Julia Stoschek Collection: Fire In My Belly (Berlin: Julia Stoschek Foundation, 2021) Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, Black Futures (New York (NY): One World, 2021) Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Dark Mirrors (London: MACK Publishing, 2021) Valerie Cassel Oliver and Regina N. Bradley, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, And the Sonic Impulse (Richmond (VA): Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2021) (exh. cat.) |
2020 |
Okwui Enwezor, Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America (New York (NY): New Museum; London: Phaidon Press, 2020) T. J. Demos, Beyond The World's End: Arts Of Living At The Crossing (Durham (NC): Duke University Press, 2020) Richard J Powell, Going There: Black Visual Satire (New Haven (CT): Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University; Yale University Press, 2020) Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, Emily Ruth Rutter, and Darlene Anita Scott (eds.), Revisiting The Elegy in The Black Lives Matter Era (New York (NY): Routledge, 2020) 1 Million Roses for Angela Davis (Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2020) (exh. cat.) |
2019 |
Darby English, Charlotte Barat, Glenn D. Lowry, and Mabel Wilson, Among Others: Blackness at MoMA (New York (NY): The Museum of Modern Art, 2019) Sabel Gavaldon and Manue Segade (eds.), Elements of Vogue: Un Caso De Estudio De Performance Radical (Madrid: CA2M, 2019) (exh. cat.) Ralph Rugoff (ed.), Biennale Art 2019: May You Live in Interesting Times. Catalogue of the 58th International Art Exhibition (Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 2019) (exh. cat.) |
2017 |
Ossian Ward and Natalia Grabowska (eds.), Everything at Once. Ryoji Ikeda, Arthur Jafa, Jeremy Shaw, Virgil Abloh, And Ben Kelly (London: The Store X, 2017) (exh. cat.) |
2016 |
Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker, Made in L.A. 2016: A, The, Though, Only (Los Angeles (CA): The Hammer Museum, 2016) |
2014 |
Gilbert B Rodman, The Race and Media Reader (New York (NY): Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group, 2014) Kara Elizabeth Walker, Ruffneck Constructivists: Dineo Seshee Bopape, Kendell Geers, Arthur Jafa, Jennie C. Jones, Kahlil Joseph, Deana Lawson, Rodney Mcmillian, Pope. L, Tim Portlock, Lior Shvil, Szymon Tomsia (Philadelphia (PA): Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; New York (NY): Dancing Foxes Press, 2014) (exh. cat.) |
2007 |
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Greg Tate, and Romi Crawford, Black Light, White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art (Houston (TX): Contemporary Arts Museum, 2007) (exh. cat.) |
2005 |
Terry Adkins, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and Franklin Sirmans, Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 (Houston (TX): Contemporary Arts Museum; New York (NY): D.A.P. Distribution, 2005) |
2003 |
Greg Tate, Everything But The Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture (New York (NY): Broadway Books, 2003) Jeffrey Keough, Alexa de Los Reyes, and Lisa Tung, Mystic: Marina Abramovic, Jeremy Blake, Dorothy Cross, Nona Hershey, Arthur Jafa, Tony Oursler, Gustavo Romano, Arlene Shechet, C.A. Stigliano (Boston (MA): Massachusetts College of Art, 2003) (exh. cat.) |
2002 |
Carina Plath, Formal Social: Lucinda Devlin, Willie Doherty, Arthur Jafa, Valérie Jouve, Catherine Opie, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall (Munster: Westfälischer Kunstverein, 2002) (exh. cat.) |
1999 |
Mirror’s Edge (Umea: BildMuseet, 1999) (exh. cat.) |
Artist Writings
2024 |
Isabella Albuquerque and Arthur Jafa, Isabelle Albuquerque: Orgy for Ten People in One Body (Los Angeles (CA): Jeffrey Deitch; Nicodim Gallery; New York (NY): Pacific, 2024) Bradley Garrett and Ossian Ward (ed.), On Being, Quietly (Cambridge (MA): MIT Press; London: Lisson Gallery, 2024) |
2023 |
Jadine Collingwood and René Morales (eds.), Gary Simmons: Public Enemy (Chicago (IL): Museum of Contemporary Art; New York (NY): DelMonico Books, 2023) Andrew Dosunmu, Monograph (Bologna: Damiani, 2023) Emma Lavigne and Bruno Racine, Icônes: Opere Della Pinault Collection (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2023) Katherine Brinson and Levi Prombaum, Alex Katz: Gathering (New York (NY): Guggenheim Museum, 2023) (exh. cat.) |
2019 |
Chloe Dewe Mathews, Zadie Smith, and Arthur Jafa, Deana Lawson (New York (NY): Aperture Foundation Inc., 2019) |
2000 |
Kerry James Marshall, Terrie Sultan, and Arthur Jafa, Kerry James Marshall (New York (NY): Harry N. Abrams Books, 2000) |
1998 |
Robert G O’Meally, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (New York (NY): Columbia University Press, 1998) |
1992 |
Gina Dent (ed.), Black Popular Culture (Seattle (WA): Bay Press, 1992) |