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Photography Samantha Sutcliffe

[whitneymallett]

author, essayist, filmmaker, brand semiotician

whitney.mallett@gmail.com text | video | twitter | instagram

PRESS: Brooklyn Tank Office Interview Nacre Journal Vogue Vice

My short fiction “Deliverance” is out now in Smutburger Editions Vol. 2 and I co-edited the forthcoming Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey. Recent bylines include: an essay on leather in Spike Art Mag, an interview with Kembra Pfahler in Buffalo Zine, an interview with Sylvie Fleury for Kaleidoscope, and book reviews in Mousse Mag. I’ve presented work at MoMA PS1, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Performance Space New York.

I’ve written for The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Interview Magazine, SSENSE, Cultured Magazine, The New Inquiry, CURA., The New Republic, VICE, V Magazine, N+1, Filmmaker Magazine, DIS, The National Post, Maisonneuve, OUT, etc. Held editorial positions at New York Magazine, PIN–UP, The Editorial, Gayletter, and Topical Cream. And produced and directed documentaries and music videos featured on Nowness, DIS, and The Fader. I’ve also produced and hosted segments for Montez Press Radio, including a collaboration with the Queens Museum, and I taught video art at NYU.

As a copywriter and brand semiotician, my clients have included Christie’s, Everlane, Samsung, Proctor & Gamble, and Hennessy.