Selected Press 



2022
Editors, “Peggy Ahwesh “Vision Machines at Kunstall Stavanger,” Mousse Magazine, May 24

2021
Lissoni, Andrea, “I Think Future, I Think Past,” Mousse Magazine, Oct 5
Halter, Ed, “Like a Fox: The Cinema of Peggy Ahwesh,” Mousse Magazine, Oct 5
“Editors’ Picks,” Millennium Film Journal, Winter 22, Dec. 15
Benzine, Vittoria, “Density Betrays Us, at The Hole,” Whitehot Magazine, July 2021
Mullie, Julia, “Anne Turyn’s Shrine to Feminist Autofiction”, Frieze, May 19
Campbell, Andy. “Peggy Ahwesh,” Artforum (print), March
Turner, Matt, “Shoreline Movements,” Burlington Contemporary, February 26
Komornitzyk, Hanna, “Aus dem Bauch heraus in die Welt hinein,” Art-in-Berlin, February 3

2020
Budick, Ariella, “Home movies at MoMa: a mesmerising parade of grins and games,” Financial Times, February 17 2019
Arribas Roldán, Victoria, “‘Vibrant matter’ repenter el cuerpo femenino en la era tecnológica”, Plataforma de arte contemporáneo, October 30
Morris, Susan, “Three can’t-miss views on architecture from the 57th New York Film Festival,” The Architecture Newspaper, October 21
Hudson, David, “Projections 2019,” The Criterion Collection, October 7
Pipolo, Tony, “Eternal Present,” Artforum, October 3
Schwendener, Martha. “Peggy Ahwesh,” The New York Times, June 20
McCoy, Ann, “Peggy Ahwesh: Cleave,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2019 (print, online)
Kim, Hyemin, “Peggy Ahwesh: “An Essay Film is the Doubt, Consideration, Sense of Failing and the Thinking Out Loud,” desist film, April 13
Tuner, Matt, “Art within the machine: how machinima turns the camera on video games,” Sight & Sound, April 2
Michaud-Lapointe, Alice, “(In)appropriation: Dirty Movies and Second Hand Poetics,” Found Footage Magazine, Special Issue #5, March (online & print)

2018
Bittencourt, Ela, “Female Filmmakers Intimately Tell Women’s Stories,” Hyperallergic, February 1
ARTnews Editors. “9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week,” ArtNEWS, January 2017
Balsom, Erika. “No Masters: The Cinema of Peggy Ahwesh,” Frieze, November
Ames, Amelia, “A Critical Guide to Understanding Experimental Film,” Artspace, April 17

2015
Art in America Editors. “Peggy Ahwesh and Jennifer Montgomery,” Art in America, October
Fateman, Johanna. “Peggy Ahwesh and Jennifer Montgomery,” Artforum, October
Artsy Editorial, “How to Collect Video and Moving Image Art,” Artsy, June 2
Chung, Becky, “Times Square Is Now A Heat Sensitive Camera,” The Creators Project: Vice, Apr 9
Goldsmith, Leo & Rakes, Rachael, “In Conversation: Peggy Ahwesh,” The Brooklyn Rail, (print & online), March
Hubert, Craig, “5 Picks at the Moving Image Fair,” Blouin Artinfo, March 4
Sutton, Benjamin, “Your Concise Guide to Armory Week,” Hyperallergic, March 2

2014
Jones, Rhett, “Have a Good Weekend…,” Animal New York, Nov. 21
Johnson, Paddy & Kirsch, Corrina, “This Week’s Must See Art Events,” ArtFCity, November 17

2011
Thomas, Mary, “Pittsburgh Biennial final 2 parts…,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Sept. 14
Wasserman, Nadine, “The Carnegie’s leg of the Pittsburgh Biennial finds the art in work, and the work in art,” Pittsburgh City Paper, Sept. 1
Thomas, Mary, “The 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial…,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 8
2010 Gorfinkel, Elena. “Arousal in Ruins: The Color of Love…,” World Picture #4

2009 and earlier
White, Kenneth. “Visions of Excess,” Lacanian Ink, 2007 Lewinson, Ann, “The View from the Whitney,” The Independent, July 1, 2003
Rhodes, John David. “Great Directors Critical Database,” Senses of Cinema, December 2003
Cotter, Holland, “Art Review; Spiritual America, From Ecstatic to Transcendent,” The New York Times, March 8, 2002
Plagens, Peter, “This Man Will Decide What Art Is” , Newsweek, March 3, 2002
Griffin, Tim. “Bury the Lead,” World Art, #16, 1998
Shaviro, Steven. “Stranded in the Jungle,” Ch. 17 Decomposing, 1998
Taubin, Amy. “Women on Top,” Village Voice, August 5, 1997
Jones, Kristin, M., “Peggy Ahwesh: Whitney Museum of American Art,” Artforum, p. 118-119, November 1997
Dargis, Manohla. “On The Deadman,” Artforum, 28, May 1990, pp. 29-30.


Selected Publications

“Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines,” Art Monthly, No. 451, p. 26 & Cover, November 2021
“Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines,” Spike Island UK, Mousse Publishing, Milan, Italy, 2021
Garfinkel, Elena, “Editor’s Introduction: Sex and the Materiality of Adult Media,” Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 5 No. 2, Spring 2019
Michaud-Lapointe, Alice, “(In)appropriation: Dirty Movies and Second Hand Poetics,” Found Footage Magazine, Special Issue #5, March 2019 (online & print)
Benthien, Claudia, Lau, Jordis, Marxsen, Maraike M, “The Literariness of Media Art,” Rutledge, September 21, 2018
Gosse, Johanna, “Cut to Cute: Face, Form and Feeling in Digital Animation…” editors Vicky Smith and Nicky Hamlyn, Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives and Practices, pp 183-201, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018
Kim, Hyunjee Nicole. “I keep you out of male fantasy: Peggy Ahwesh and The Deadman,” Cleo Journal, Winter 2017
Troxell, Jenelle, Ahwesh, Peggy, “Neither Day Nor Night: Peggy Ahwesh’s Palestinian Essays,” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, Wayne State University Press, Volume 58, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 2017
Butler, Alison (editor), “Peggy Ahwesh Dossier”. Screen, Volume 55, Issue 4. Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press, UK. Winter 2014
Auchincloss, Emily Johnson, “Towards A Group Therapy: Enactions and Disruptions of Inquiry in the Films of Peggy Ahwesh” (MFA Thesis), Pratt Institute, May 2013
Beil, Ralf, Ehemann, Antje, “Serious Games: War-Media-Art: Krieg Medien Kunst,” Hatte Lantz Publishers, August 31 2011
Mamula, Tuana, “Cinemas of Poetry & Violence: Rotterdam Film Festival,” Bright Lights Film, Issue 72, May 2011
Blaetz, Robin, ed. “Women’s Experimental Cinema”. Durham, NC. Duke University Press, 2008
MacDonald, Scott. “Peggy Ahwesh interview,” A Critical Cinema #5, U of CA Press, 2006
MacDonald, Scott. “Peggy Ahwesh,” Millennium Film Journal, No. 39/40 Winter 2003
Gangitano, Lia. “Warhol’s Grave,” Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor, ed. LUX: A Decade of Artists Film and Video. XYZ Books, Toronto, 2000
Hillstrom, Laurie Collier, Hillstrom, Kevin “Contemporary Women Artists”, St. James Press, 1999
Lewis, Jon, ed. “The New American Cinema”. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998