Zoe Pilger was the art critic for The Independent from 2012 to 2016. Her reviews, features, and interviews with artists can be read here.
As an art writer, she won the 2011 Frieze Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Observer / Anthony Burgess Prize for arts journalism.
She has also written on art for Frieze, the Observer, Apollo, Harpers Bazaar. She was a judge and mentor for the Fresh Faced & Wild Eyed exhibition at The Photographers Gallery. She appeared on BBC2's The Review Show and Sky Arts. She has written catalogue essays and given walking tours for galleries including Nottingham Contemporary and Peckham Platform.
Selected articles:
Alice Anderson, Wellcome Collection
Indigenous Australia, British Museum
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, V & A
Goya's Witches and Old Women Album, Courtauld Gallery
Allen Jones, The Royal Academy
2014 Turner Prize, Tate Britain
Virginia Woolf, The National Portrait Gallery
British Folk Art, Tate Britain
The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy
Nymphomania: Bodies of Nature, Tate Britain
Ancient Lives, New Discoveries: Eight Mummies, Eight Stories, British Museum
Chris Marker, Whitechapel Gallery
Matisse: the Cut-Outs, Tate Modern
Panagea: New Art From Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery
Welcome To Iraq, South London Gallery
The art of William Burroughs, Riflemaker Gallery