X-TRA’s mission is to sustain a vibrant critical discourse about contemporary art and foster inclusive networks and expansive thinking. X-TRA’s journal, website, and public events create forums for the diverse voices of artists and writers.
X-TRA cultivates a deep understanding of contemporary art, explores a wide range of ideas and artists’ work, and strives to do so with generosity and integrity.
Editorial Board
- Ellen Birrell
- Neha Choksi
- Leslie Dick
- Travis Diehl
- Karen Dunbar
- Gelare Khoshgozaran
- Jon Leaver
- Mario Ontiveros
- Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi
- Elizabeth Pulsinelli
- Anuradha Vikram
Project X Foundation Board of Directors
- Jeff Beall
- Mara Gladstone
- Karen Moss
Co-Founders
- Stephen Berens
- Ellen Birrell
Executive Editor
- Elizabeth Pulsinelli
Managing Editor
- Kate Rouhandeh
Online Editor
- Travis Diehl
Operations Administrator
- Helen Gu
Website
- Folder Studio
Print Design
- Becca Lofchie
Contributing Editors
- Michelle Grabner
- Micol Hebron
- Candice Lin
- Susanna Newbury
- Howard Singerman
- Jan Tumlir
- Anne Walsh
- Damon Willick
Advisory Council
- Phil Aarons
- Kevin Appel
- Jennifer Arceneaux
- Kafi Blumenfield
- Robert Crouch
- Ciara Ennis
- Alexandra Grant
- Amanda Hunt
- Sharon Lockhart
- Ed Patuto
- Renée Petropoulos
- Cay Sophie Rabinowitz
- Alex Slade
- Eve Steele
- Irene Tsatsos
- Kate Wolf
Mailing Address
Santa Monica, CA 90404
- Project X Foundation Board of Directors
Jeff Beall
Jeff Beall is an artist and entrepreneur.
- Co-Founders
Stephen Berens
Stephen Berens creates photographs, drawings, paintings, video, sculpture, and site-specific installations that often revolve around generative systems.
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- Co-Founders
Ellen Birrell
Ellen Birrell is an artist and lemon farmer, and one of the founding editors of X-TRA.
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Neha Choksi
Neha Choksi is a visual artist who works in multiple media, across disciplines, and at times collaboratively and in unconventional settings.
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Leslie Dick
Leslie Dick is a writer who teaches in the Art Program at CalArts.
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- Online Editor
Travis Diehl
Travis Diehl lives in New York. His reviews and essays appear regularly in X-TRA, among many other leading publications.
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Karen Dunbar
Karen Dunbar is an artist, writer, and educator who lives and works in Los Angeles.
- Project X Foundation Board of Directors
Mara Gladstone
Mara Gladstone has worked in the arts for two decades as an educator, curator, producer and fundraiser at Desert X, Palm Springs Art Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She served as a member of the Public Arts Commission in Palm Springs, California from 2015-2021.
- Operations Administrator
Helen Gu
MingYan Helen Gu is an artist living and working in Los Angeles.
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Gelare Khoshgozaran
Gelare Khoshgozaran is an undisciplinary artist and writer from a city of four seasons, living in Los Angeles.
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Jon Leaver
Jon Leaver is Professor of Art History at the University of La Verne. His research focuses on nineteenth-century art and criticism as well as the contemporary art of Los Angeles.
- Contributing Editors
Candice Lin
Candice Lin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains.
- Print Design
Becca Lofchie
Becca Lofchie is a designer, artist, and educator. She has been designing X-TRA since 2018.
- Project X Foundation Board of Directors
Karen Moss
Karen Moss is an art historian, curator, educator and writer based in Los Angeles. She is Acting Vice Dean for Critical Studies and teaches in the MA Curatorial Program at USC Roski School of Art and Design.
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Mario Ontiveros
Mario Ontiveros is a curator, art historian, and a professor of art history at California State University, Northridge (CSUN).
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Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi
Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi is a writer and curator living in Los Angeles.
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- Executive Editor
Elizabeth Pulsinelli
Elizabeth Pulsinelli is an artist and freelance copyeditor. In 2007, she became the first Executive Editor of X-TRA.
- Managing Editor
Kate Rouhandeh
Kate Rouhandeh is a writer and curator in Los Angeles.
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Anuradha Vikram
Anuradha Vikram is a curator, writer, and educator based in Los Angeles. She is the author of Decolonizing Culture (Art Practical/Sming Sming Books, 2017).