Editor, Athenaeum Review
Ben Lima is the founding editor of Athenaeum Review and host of the Athenaeum Review podcast.
His writing on contemporary art has appeared in numerous publications, including the Dallas Morning News, Image Journal, Art Journal, Might Be Good, Pastelegram, and Art Lies, and he has curated and written catalog essays for Gallery 12.26, SITE131, Erin Cluley Gallery, Conduit Gallery, the SMU Pollock Gallery, Deep Ellum Windows, Grey Matters Gallery, The Dallas Biennial, The Texas Biennial, The Latino Cultural Center, the Gallery at UTA, the SP/N Gallery at UT Dallas, and the Wilcox Space. He was nominated for the Rabkin Prize in art writing.
His research on post-1945 German art at archives in Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart and elsewhere was supported by a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He formerly taught art history at the University of Texas at Arlington, including courses on European, Latin American and U.S. modern art, as well as film, photography and architecture.
Education
PhD, History of Art, Yale University
MA, Visual Studies, University of California at Irvine
AB, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University