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)