Prize Winner 2018:
Travis Diehl
Travis Diehl is a freelance critic and writer living in New York. His criticism appears regularly in The New York Times. Travis founded and edited the artist-run arts journal Prism of Reality (2012–2016) and was online editor at X-TRA Art Journal (2018 to 2024). In 2013, Travis received the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in short-form criticism. He was Critic in Residence at Otis College of Art and Design in 2016 and 2017. He holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.