Cara Marsh Sheffler
Welcome to the website of a writer worn down by perfectly reasonable requests that she create her own website.
Cara Marsh Sheffler is a New York-based writer, translator, curator, journalist, and editor. She holds a BA from Princeton in Comparative Literature and a Certificate in Creative Writing, for which she won the Fagles Prize. Sheffler's writing has been described by The New York Times as “enthusiastically caustic.” Her work has appeared in many publications, including The Guardian, VICE, and The Conversationalist, where she has a column. She is a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow.
As one half of ¡AGITPOP! Press, she collaborates with visual artist Johannah Herr to create publications that are for sale at bookstores and galleries including McNally Jackson, Printed Matter, Perrotin, After 8, The Hole, Mast, Skylight, and Karma. These titles have been acquired by the archive of the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou, Yale University’s Arts of the Book Collection at the Haas Arts Library, the University of Miami, and the Clark Art Institute, among other libraries and collections. ¡AGITPOP!'s work has been featured by art fairs including NADA, Frieze, EXPO CHICAGO, the LA Art Book Fair, the New York Art Book Fair, Offprint London, Offprint Paris, Paris Ass Bookfair, and SPRING/BREAK. They presented at the inaugural bell hooks center Symposium at Berea College. In May 2025, they delivered a delivered a performance-lecture on their entire body of work at the Palais de Tokyo.
When slop doesn’t sell, it pays to have a human touch."
The Conversationalist · Nov 7, 2026
“The Monster Mash Of Imperialism:
Some spooky seasonal appreciation for Ahmed Saadawi's ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad’”
The Conversationalism · Oct 28, 2026
“SPLIT LEVEL: Review” (Review of a show I curated)
Impulse Magazine · Oct 3, 2026
Bêtes Noires (Exhibition Catalogue)
Caitlin McCormack, SPLIT LEVEL Fair · Oct 1, 2026
“Spring Break Art Show Tackles Life’s Crushing Burdens” (Review)
Hyperallergic · Sep 25, 2026
“At Spring/Break’s First Edition in the Old CBS Newsroom, (Almost) Everything Is Political” (Review)
Art News · Sep 24, 2026
“More than just fun and games at the Spring Break art fair in New York” (Review)
The Art Newspaper · Sep 24, 2026
Spring Break Art Show Explores ‘Hide ‘n Seek’ Theme in New York (Review)
USA Art News· Sep 24, 2026
¡AGITPOP! Press · Sep 22, 2026
“Y’all Ready for This? What the art world can learn from the jocks”
The Conversationalist · Aug 12, 2026
“NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowships Award $903,000 to 132 New York Artists” (Coverage of Fellowship)
Artforum · Jul 24, 2026
“132 New York Artists Receive $903,000 in Grants: The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program awards each recipient $8,000 in unrestricted cash” (Coverage of Fellowship)
Hyperallergic · Jul 23, 2026
"How to Present as Female During End Times: Why I'll always forgive vanity in women"
The Conversationalist · May 22, 2026
"An egg by any other name," Marc Henry, The Early Works, 100 Selected Paintings (An essay contributed to a painter’s monograph)
Malelingue Edizione · May 4, 2026
The Conversationalist · Mar 31, 2026
“The Collector, the Tax Attorney, His Wife & Her Art Advisor”
The Conversationalist · Feb 12, 2026
The Value Of Art That Cannot Be Sold
The Conversationalist · Oct 28, 2025
Alexandria Deters On Finding Love: “Shop ‘Til You Drop at Printed Matter’s Book Fair” (Review)
Cultbytes · Sep 13, 2025
¡AGITPOP! Press · Sep 11, 2025
"Robber Barons vs. Beige Bros:
The Conversationalist · May 28, 2025
¡AGITPOP! Press · Apr 24, 2025
“Mignon Venin: SIT and LISTEN” (Exhibition Catalog)
Studio MV (Marie-Victoire de Bascher), Salone di Milano · Apr 7, 2025
"Free Entry, but at What Cost?
"The real price of admission for Julie Mehretu’s Subprime Mortgage Mural"
The Conversationalist · Mar 11, 2025
"What Could One Banana Cost?: When Art Sparks Outrage"
The Conversationalist · Dec 7, 2024
"Where the F*ck Are the Artists Going to Live?"
The Conversationalist · Sep 10, 2024
"Souvenirs of the Wasteland” (Exhibition Catalog)
Elijah Wheat Showroom · Aug 1, 2024
"Time Waits for No One” (Exhibition Catalog)
Ortega y Gasset Projects · May 15, 2024
“Raven Chacon & Lorenza Longhi's Selected Books”
(White Flight! curated into list)
Printed Matter · Apr 14, 2024
Marguerite Wibaux’s ‘SEEN’ at The Locker Room"
Quiet Lunch · Apr 4, 2024
Recetas de las Republicas Bananeras
¡AGITPOP! Press · Feb 1, 2024
"Paris Internationale 9: Review"
C Magazine · Jan 24, 2024
On the endless proliferation of art weeks"
The Conversationalist · Dec 21, 2023
Syllabus Project · Nov 21, 2023
”Dans l'œil de Libé: La banane fait recettes et débat” (Review)
Libération · Oct 23, 2023
"There’s No Such Thing as an Ethical Museum"
The Conversationalist · Sep 14, 2023
"Faustine Badrichani expose ses fragments de nus au SPRING/BREAK Art Show" (Review)
French Morning · Sep 11, 2023
artnet news · Sep 8, 2023
White Hot Magazine · Sep 6, 2023
“What to see in NYC galleries in August" (Review)
The New York Times · Aug 17, 2023
"LA Art Book Fair Participants Get Candid About the State of the Medium" (Interview)
Cultured Magazine · Aug 15, 2023
"Ceramics take centre stage at Spring Break’s 'secret' New York pop-up" (Review)
The Art Newspaper · May 19, 2023
The Conversationalist · Feb 14, 2023
¡AGITPOP! Press / CUNY · Sep 22, 2022
"Tradition and Transgression at Spring/Break 2022" (Review)
Arcade Project Zine · Sep 13, 2022
artnet news · Sep 8, 2022
"Field Pod, Episode 4: 'Round the World's Fair" (Podcast Interview)
Field Projects · May 25, 2022
Art We Saw This Spring" (Review)
The New York Times · Apr 27, 2022
"Unbreaking Media, Episode 4: In Praise of Pleasure (with Cara Sheffler)" (Podcast Interview)
The Conversationalist · Apr 7, 2022
I Have Seen the Future: Official Guide
¡AGITPOP! Press / Field Projects · Apr 7, 2022
"Thoughts on New York’s re-opened NIMBY economy”
The Conversationalist · Jun 30, 2021
The Banana Republican Recipe Book
¡AGITPOP! Press / Geary Gallery / NADA · May 13, 2021
"Dreaming big: the politics of preaching body acceptance in a fat phobic society”
The Conversationalist · May 5, 2021
¡AGITPOP! Press / Elijah Wheat Showroom · Nov 3, 2020
"The personal (even on Prozac) is political: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s literary legacy"
The Conversationalist · Jan 16, 2020
"The fog of overachieving: from Robert S. McNamara to Donald J. Trump"
The Conversationalist · Nov 1, 2019
"Want to Save Democracy? Diversify the Liberal Media"
The Conversationalist · Feb 4, 2019
"Woody Allen's films move many people. It's time to ask why"
The Guardian · Feb 11, 2018
"‘Fearless Girl’ Statue to Stay in Financial District (for Now)" (Coverage of a story I wrote)
The New York Times · Mar 27, 2017
"The 'Fearless Girl' statue sums up what's wrong with feminism today"
The Guardian · Mar 14, 2017
The Little Old Lady Who Terrorized New York's Famed Plaza Hotel"
VICE · Mar 23, 2016
Selected Press & Publications
