Almog Cohen-Kashi

Areas of Specialization: Sculpture, movement, site, art as intellectual history, theory

Email: Almog.Cohen-Kashi@stonybrook.edu

Almog Cohen-Kashi is an art historian, critic, and theorist based in New York City. Her research examines how sculpture has redefined itself over the last century, with particular attention to the persistence and strategic distortion of the classical tradition as a structuring ghost within modern and contemporary practice. She approaches sculpture not as a stable medium but as a problem-space shaped by spatial logics, institutional frameworks, and cross-disciplinary encounters.

Her current work focuses on site-specific sculpture and the question of locality. She is particularly interested in sculptural practices that occupy marginal or contingent positions such as corners, thresholds, and architectural edges and how these gestures recalibrate relations between sculpture and adjacent fields such as architecture, dance, and photography. More broadly, her writing traces genealogies of site, medium, and form, testing how sculptural meaning emerges through placement, constraint, and refusal.

Almog attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University in 2024 as a Humanities Institute Fellow from Stony Brook University. She has contributed reference entries to Grove Art Online (Oxford University Press), including an entry on Rosalind Krauss, and to the Bénézit Dictionary of Artists (Oxford University Press). In addition to her scholarly work her criticism has appeared in IMPULSE Magazine, Two Coats of Paint, BOMB, Screen Slate, The Manhattan Art Review, and other publications. She received her BA in Art History from Sarah Lawrence College in 2017.