Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in DTLA. She is the writer & co-founder of 13ThingsLA—a weekly Substack of curated exhibition reviews & recommendations. Formerly the Arts Editor at LA Weekly, her work appears in the Village Voice, Flaunt, WhiteHot, Alta Journal, and other culture publications. She studied Art History at Vassar College, curates & juries exhibitions, writes prolifically for catalogs & monographic publications, and speaks at galleries, schools & cultural institutions nationally. She is the recipient of the Rabkin Art Writers Prize and the LA Press Club Critic of the Year award. Her oneiric novella Zen Psychosis (Griffith Moon) published in 2020.
Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2020 by
LA WEEKLY ARTS EDITOR (author page)
Shana Nys Dambrot: Photo by EMS
ZEN PSYCHOSIS is my debut NOVEL, out now in hardcover. It is a work of oneiric fiction, a novel culled from dreams, a surrealist memoir based on dream journals. Written by Shana Nys Dambrot. Pinhole photography by Osceola Refetoff.
Released January 2020 by Griffith Moon Publishing.
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