Sophie Kovel is an artist and writer. Her work examines the economic, social, aesthetic, and ideological operations of ethnonationalism. Kovel’s criticism has been published in Artforum, BOMB, Frieze, Spike, PALM: Jeu de Paume, and elsewhere, and recent exhibitions include Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark, 2018); Jenkins Johnson, New York (USA, 2022); University of California; Los Angeles (USA, 2022); and Petrine, Paris (France, 2023).
Kovel is a visiting lecturer at Barnard College and Columbia University, New York; and a 2022–2023 studio fellow of the Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art.