Ben Eastham

Ben Eastham is the editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism, as well as an art critic and novelist. His second book of non-fiction, The Imaginary Museum, was published in 2020; his debut novel, The Floating World, will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions (Commonwealth) and Astra House (US) in October 2026.

A regular contributor to the Guardian, his writing has also appeared in ArtReview, e-flux, frieze, the London Review of Books, the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Fantastic Man, Acne Paper and the Financial Times, among other publications. He is the editor of books on Luis Camnitzer, Arshile Gorky, Fabio Mauri and Stephen Spender, and has written monographic essays for artists including Ed Ruscha, Camille Henrot, Kati Heck and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian.

Cofounder of literary magazine The White Review, with Jacques Testard, he was previously editor at ArtReview, a co-curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale, publications editor of the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, and an associate editor at documenta 14. He is on the International Advisory Panel of EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, and began his career as an editor at the BBC reporting on mass media and propaganda. Now based in London, he lived for a number of years in Athens and Rome.