Saul Ostrow

Who is Saul Ostrow?

Saul Ostrow is an American art critic and art curator.

In 1972 Ostrow received his MFA in art from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught at Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, Parsons The New School for Design, School of the Visual Arts and was acting head of MFA studio program at New York University and Director of the Center for Visual Art and Culture at The University of Connecticut.

Since 1987, Ostrow has curated over 80 exhibitions in the US and abroad. These include such exhibitions as Working Digitally: no Websites Please at The Center For Visual Arts and Culture, University of Connecticut and Modeling the Photographic: The Ends of Photography for the McDonough Museum of Art located in Youngstown, Ohio. Both of these exhibitions examined the impact of digital technologies on current art practice and included internationally recognized artists: James Welling, Barbara Probst, Fabian Marcaccio, Joseph Nechvatal, Curtis Mitchell, Matthew Buckingham and Penelope Umbrico.

Saul Ostrow is the editor of the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture published by Routledge London and is the Art Editor for Bomb Magazine. He was Co-Editor of Lusitania Press from 1996 to 1204.