Stephanie Cristello is a writer and curator living and working in Chicago, Illinois. She is currently the artistic director of EXPO Chicago, and the director and curator of Chicago Manual Style.
She was previously the Senior Editor US for ArtSlant, and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of THE SEEN, Chicago’s International Journal of Contemporary & Modern Art. Her writing has been published in the London-based publications ArtReview, Elephant Magazine and Frieze Magazine, as well as BOMB Magazine, OSMOS, Portable Gray, published by the University of Chicago Press, and Mousse (forthcoming), as well as numerous exhibition catalogues nationally and internationally. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 with a Liberal Arts Thesis in the Visual Critical Studies Department. Her forthcoming book, Barbara Kasten: Architecture and Film 2015–2020, with contributors including Hans-Ulrich Obrist, will be published by Skira and the publication Theodora Allen: Saturnine will be published by Motto Books in 2020.