Bio
Jerry Saltz is an American art critic who has been senior art critic and a columnist for New York magazine since 2006. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times.
He is a regular judge on the reality competition television series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, since 2010.
Throughout his career, Saltz has articulated his opinions by writing for a number of well-known publications including Village Voice, where he reigned as Senior Art Critic from 1998 to 2007, Frieze, Modern Painters, and Art in America to name a few.
Saltz's Village Voice columns were compiled into a book published by Figures Press, titled Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1998-2003. A second volume of his criticism, Seeing Out Louder was recently published by Hardpress Editions.
He is the co-editor of Sketchbook with Voices with Eric Fischl.
Beyond his writing, Saltz has lectured at numerous prominent universities and museums across America, including Harvard, Yale, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Cleveland Art Institute, and many others.
In 2008 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago awarded him an Honorary Doctorate.
Saltz is the founder of N.A.M.E. Gallery in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois; an artists' run gallery established in 1973, for which he has curated over 75 exhibitions. In 1995, Saltz was the sole advisor of the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Saltz currently resides in New York City.