Select Publications

Carmen’s writing has been featured in major monographs, vanguard group exhibition catalogues, and academic and online publications.

“An Overwhelming Response,” in Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer, Pennsylvania State Press, forthcoming fall 2024 

Editor and lead essay, “Behold,” and introductory texts, in María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold, Getty Publications and Brooklyn Museum, 2023

Winner, Silver Prize in Photography/Art/Design, Pub West Book Design Awards 

Lead essay, “On Transformation” in New Voices: On Transformation, Print Center New York, 2023

“Accumulating Collective Power,” in Dyani White Hawk, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2021 

“Epic Tribute” in LJ Roberts: Carry You With Me, Pioneer Works Press, 2021

“The Process” in Nobody Promised You Tomorrow, California State University Fresno, 2021 

“Unspeakable Acts,” in Women’s Art Journal, spring 2020 

Five analytic artist essays in Whitney Biennial catalogue, 2019

“Through Collaborative Work, Centering Queer, Brown Folks, rafa esparza Looks to Destabilize Artist Authority,” in “The Deciders,” ArtNews print, winter 2020

“Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie’s The New Woman’s Survival Catalog: A Woman-made Book,” BOMB print, December 2019

“What Sister Wendy, the Late Nun and Popular Art Historian, Taught Me About Being A Curator.” Artnet.com, 2019

“Interview with Judy Chicago.” Roots of The Dinner Party, Brooklyn Museum/Salon 94, 2018 

“Collective Artist Actions in New York,” and “Gender Politics at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Identity.” We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Duke U Press, 2017 

Artwork essays, Paulo Bruscky: Artist Books and Films, 1970–2013, Another Space, 2015