Siddhartha Mitter is a writer on contemporary art and its social and civic dimensions. He writes in-depth profiles of artists, reported features and reviews. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, covering artists and exhibitions across the United States and in Africa and Europe. He has written for Artforum, Art in America and many other publications within and beyond the art field. Trained in the social sciences, Siddhartha has worked in culture journalism for two decades. He received a Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant in 2017, delivered the AICA-USA Distinguished Critic lecture in 2022 and won a Rabkin Prize for art writing in 2024. He is based in New York City.
