Artist and writer Mary Walling Blackburn is co-founder of Anhoek School (2008-2013), a collective education experiment dedicated to collapsing class and imploding gender which included WMYN, its pirate feminist radio station. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, performances and events, at venues including Art in General; Beta-Local (Puerto Rico); Centre Pompidou; the New Museum; Sculpture Center; Tate Modern; the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. An exhibition, Magic Feces, was held at STOOJ in Berlin this year. Walling Blackburn’s writing has appeared in Afterall, Art in America, Bomb Magazine, Cabinet Magazine, e-flux journal, Grey Room, Triple Canopy, and in multiple anthologies including Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 (Paper Monument, 2016). Quaestiones Perversas (Pioneer Works, 2017), co-written with Dr. Beatriz E. Balanta, functions as a poetic rupture of standardized testing. Her new collection of essays, Cream Psychosis, (e-flux/Sternberg Press) was published in March 2026.
