Renee Gladman

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Visiting Faculty

Renee Gladman is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of writing, drawing, and architecture. She has published numerous books, most recently My Lesbian Novel, a work of autofiction.

Biography

Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of writing, drawing and architecture. She is the author of fifteen published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians, as well as three collections of drawings, Prose Architectures (2017), One Long Black Sentence (2020), and Plans for Sentences (2022).

Her newest work is My Lesbian Novel (2024), a work of fiction and autobiography. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Architectural Review, POETRY, The Paris ReviewThe Yale Review, and e-flux, in addition to several artist monographs and exhibition catalogs. Since 2017, Gladman has exhibited her works on paper in galleries in the U.S. and across Europe. Her first solo show, The Dreams of Sentences, opened at Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery in September 2022, followed by Narratives of Magnitude at Artists Space in New York City in spring 2023. She has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies from the Menil Drawing Institute, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others, and received a Windham-Campbell prize in fiction in 2021. She makes her home in New England.

Gladman is the Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Faculty at Bennington for Spring 2025.