Writing/Lectures
Published in academic journals, magazines, and books, Myers’s scholarly work focuses on historical and contemporary art, struggles over dominated spaces and contested histories, and the history of exhibitions.
SELECTED ESSAYS
“THE DISMEMBERED DRUM,” ARTHUR JAFA: LIVE EVIL (LUMA ARLES/WALTHER KÖNIG, 2025)
“NANCY HOLT: INNER EARTH,” NANCY HOLT: LOCATING PERCEPTION (SPRUTH MAGERS, LOS ANGELES, 2024)
“NIGHTCLEANERS REVISITED,” CHRISTINA FERNANDEZ: MULTIPLE EXPOSURES (UCLA CHICANO STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER, 2022)
“WHAT IS A LABORATORY?” TO BEGIN, AGAIN: A PREHISTORY OF THE WEX, 1968–89 (WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 2022)
”EVERYTHING AND NOTHING: NANCY HOLT’S SUN TUNNELS 1973–76” (HOLT/SMITHSON FOUNDATION 2022)
“EXHIBITIONS AS APPARATUS,” THE EXHIBITIONIST: THE FIRST SIX YEARS (THE EXHIBITIONIST/DAP, 2017)
“THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THINGS, ONE LAST THING: TEN YEARS OF THE THING QUARTERLY (THE THING 2017)
“RUNAWAY ABSTRACTION,” SARAH CAIN: THE IMAGINARY ARCHITECTURE OF LOVE (CAM RALEIGH, 2016)
“THE FACT OF BLACKNESS,” TONY LEWIS: FREE MOVEMENT PRESSURE NOMENCLATURE… (MOCA CLEVELAND, 2015)
“AFTER THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE,” CRITICAL LANDSCAPES: ART, SPACE, POLITICS (UC PRESS, 2015)
“HARD FORM AND SOFT WORK,” STERLING RUBY: SOFT WORK (KOENIG BOOKS, 2014)
“URBAN FRAGMENTS,” KEITH HARING: THE POLITICAL LINE (DELMONICO/PRESTEL, 2014)
“BETWEEN AND ACROSS: ON DOCUMENTS,” ART PAPERS (SPECIAL ISSUE ED. DUSHKO PETROVICH, 2013)
“ARTISTS AND WORKERS” (MOUSSE, 2013)
“ATTITUDES AND AFFECTS,” WHEN ATTITUDES BECAME FORM BECOME ATTITUDES (WATTIS INSTITUTE, 2013)
“DOCUMENTA, STATIONARY” (MOUSSE, 2012)
“EARTH BENEATH DETROIT,” ENDS OF THE EARTH: LAND ART TO 1974 (MOCA LOS ANGELES / PRESTEL, 2012)
“ON ART, LANGUAGE, AND CONSECUTIVE MATTERS” (MOUSSE, 2012)
“LIVING IN THE LONG FRONT,” TATE PAPERS, 2011
HOPELESSNESS FREEZES TIME W/ EDGAR ARCENEAUX (MUSEUM FÜR GEGENWARTSKUNST, BASEL, 2011)
“ON THE VALUE OF A HISTORY OF EXHIBITIONS,” THE EXHIBITIONIST, 2011
“RIOT SHOW: SOME NOTES ON THE ARCHIVE,” FILLIP, 2010
“FORM AND PROTOPOLITICS,” THE EXHIBITIONIST, 2010
“WHAT HAPPENED IN VEGAS,” W/ DOMINIC WILLSDON, JOURNAL OF VISUAL CULTURE, 2009
“WHO IS STERLING RUBY?” FRIEZE, 2009
“TOTALITY: A GUIDED TOUR,” AFTERALL, 2009
“TARIQ ALVI: NOTES WITHIN CAPITALISM,” ART ON PAPER, 2008
“NOPLACES: EARTHWORKS AND URBANISM CIRCA 1970,” PHD DISS. UC BERKELEY, 2006
ELLSWORTH KELLY IN SAN FRANCISCO W/ MADELEINE GRYNSZTEJN (SFMOMA, 2002)
“THE FUTURE AS FETISH,” OCTOBER, 2000
“VERBS LIKE AN AUTOMATIC,” DOCUMENTS, 1996
LECTURES+
“SADISM ON TOUR, OR: KIENHOLZ AT DOCUMENTA,” KIENHOLZ: UN/AMERICAN VIOLENCE, THE COURTAULD, LONDON, 2025
“DETACH HERE,” NANCY HOLT: BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH, WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 2022
“JOSEPH AND JAFA, KENDRICK AND KANYE,” SIGNS O’ THE TIMES, COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION, 2022
“CITY FULL OF HOLES,” W/ EDGAR ARCENEAUX, LAND ART: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART, 2021
“IMAGINARIES OF L.A.,” W/ EDGAR ARCENEAUX, THE GETTY, 2020
“FORMS OF BEING TOGETHER,” SHAPESHIFTERS: NEW FORMS OF CURATORIAL RESEARCH, MONASH UNIVERSITY, 2019
“DESERT SOLITAIRE,” NANCY HOLT SYMPOSIUM, DIA ART FOUNDATION, 2019
“EXHIBITION HISTORY AS CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY” PANEL, COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION, 2016
“ALICE NEEL, COMMUNIST,” 99 OBJECTS, WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 2015
“DOUBLE VISION, TERRA NOVA” + “AFTER THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE,” ECOLE CANTONALE D’ART DU VALAIS, 2014
“DER HANG ZUM GESAMTKUNSTWERK,” HARALD SZEEMANN SYMPOSIUM, THE GETTY, 2014
“LYNDA BENGLIS IN PROCESS,” STUDIO SHOTS: REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN AS ARTISTS, COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION, 2014
“IN THE PLACE OF PRODUCTION,” THE EXHIBITION AS MEDIUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2013
“THINKING CONTEMPORARY CURATING,” W/ TERRY SMITH, COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION, 2013
“PERMANENT REVOLUTION IN SCULPTURE,” UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO, 2012
SEMINAR, ACADEMY FOR RECIPROCAL ENLIGHTENMENT, SHANGHAI BIENNIAL, 2012
“PERMANENT REVOLUTION IN SCULPTURE,” UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2010
BEING THERE: REMARKS FOR ANNE WAGNER, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2010
“RIOT SHOW,” SAN FRANCSICO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 2010
“TOTALITY: A GUIDED TOUR,” ART PROGRAM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 2010
“ART-WORK,” SIGHT SCHOOL, OAKLAND, 2009
“DRAWING DRAGGING,” VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS, 2009
“DRAWING DRAGGING,” INSTITUTE OF ART DESIGN + TECHNOLOGY, DUBLIN, 2009
“RIOT SHOW,” UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER, 2009
‘LIGHT, SPACE, BUREAUCRACY, DEATH,” MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, 2008
“WHOSE MONUMENTS?” W/ ERLEA MANEROS, WALEAD BESHTY, FOCA, LOS ANGELES, 2008
“DRAWING DRAGGING,” SCULPTURE/DRAWING, COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION, 2008
“DRAWING DRAGGING” W/ EDGAR ARCENEAUX, ARTISTS SPACE, NEW YORK, 2008
“RIOT SHOW,” ARTISTS SPACE, NEW YORK, 2008
“UNFINISHED, UNTITLED, OR NOT YET,” SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 2002
SHORT FORM
“A DECADE OF POP PRINTS AND MULTIPLES, 1962–72” MCA SAN DIEGO, 2025
“KEY HIRAGA: ELEGANT EXTREMITY” NONAKA-HILL, LOS ANGELES, 2025
“SAWAKO GODA: STORY OF THE EYE,” NONAKA-HILL, LOS ANGELES, 2025
“LAURA A., LOS ANGELES,” CHRISTINA FERNANDEZ: VIEW FROM HERE (UC RIVERSIDE, 2023)
“THE MATTER OF MIRRORS,” EDGAR ARCENEAUX, VIELMETTER, LOS ANGELES, 2022
“LEIGH MARKOPOULOS, 1968–2017,” ARTFORUM, 2017
“NOT NEW NOW: DISCUSSING THE 6TH MARRAKECH BIENNIAL,” ARTMARGINS, 2016
“A HEAP OF BROKEN IMAGES,” WASTELAND: NEW ART FROM LOS ANGELES (LAND 2016)
“ON THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF CURATORIAL EDUCATION,” GREAT EXPECTATIONS (KOENIG BOOKS, 2015)
“FORGETTING THE ART WORLD,” CAA.REVIEWS, 2013
“OPENINGS: KARTHIK PANDIAN,” ARTFORUM, 2011
“ON EDUCATING ARTISTS,” W/ DOMINIC WILLSDON, DRAW IT WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED, PAPER MONUMENT, 2012
BLURBS FOR VITAMIN 3D: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON SCULPTURE… (PHAIDON, 2009)
“TOTAL RELAXATION,” SUDDEN WHITE (AFTER LONDON) (DEXTER SINISTER, 2009)
“A TEMPORARY INSTITUTION,” W/ HOU HANRU, SFAI EXHIBITION STUDIES PUBLICATION, 2008
EXHIBITION REVIEWS FRIEZE, 2002–09
“010101: ART IN TECHNOLOGICAL TIMES / BITSTREAMS” DOCUMENTS, 2002
“PRIVATE LIFE DRAMA, BABY,” DOCUMENTS, 2000