Jocelyn Spaar is an artist, poet, curator, and translator who lives in New York. Her writings, drawings, and photography have appeared in Yale Review, American Chordata, The Paris Review Daily, The Magazine of the Artist’s Institute, Gigantic, The Paper Nautilus, Bridge, Pelt, Storychord, Stonecutter, and elsewhere. She was a curator at the Hunter College Art Galleries and the poetry editor of STILL magazine. She has translated work for Archipelago Books, New Directions, The Swiss Institute (Niele Toroni [Swiss Institute/Karma, 2017]), and the October Files series (Sherrie Levine [The MIT Press, 2018] edited by Howard Singerman). With Kit Schluter, she translated Amandine André's Circle of Dogs, which she also illustrated (Solar Luxuriance, 2015). She is the illustrator of Cream by Cecilia Corrigan (Capricious, 2016) and she performs as "Y2K" with Emmy Catedral and Carlos Rigau. She has both read for and curated the Segue Reading Series and has read her poetry at the Poetry Project, the Kitchen, White Columns, Berkeley Books, and Cambridge University. She has performed and exhibited work at Company Gallery, Emergency Eyewash, Essex Flowers, Field Projects, Issue Project Room, the Knockdown Center, La MaMa Galleria, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, New York; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris;
Apt. 302 Gallery, Marseille;
2ANNAS Film Festival, Latvia; and Ugly Duck, London Art Night at OXO Tower Wharf, and SPACE, London.