Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus was in residence at LUMA Arles in january and march 2025.

Chris Kraus is a writer and critic. Her novels include Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, and Summer of Hate, and she has published three cultural criticism books: Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, Where Art Belongs, and Social Practices. I Love Dick was adapted for television, and her literary biography After Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press in 2017.

A former Guggenheim Fellow, Kraus held the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in 2019 and was Writer-in-Residence at ArtCenter College between 2020 and 2024. She has written for various magazines and has been a co-editor of the independent press Semiotext(e) since 1990. New York Times critic Dwight Garner has called her “a powerfully original writer,” and Index magazine described her as “one of the most subversive voices in American fiction.” Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.