Bruce Hainley

 ( American Male Poets ) 

Bruce Hainley is an American critic, writer and poet. He is the professor of Criticism and Theory at the MFA program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California. In 2021, he was made Chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University. Bruce Hainley Joins Rics as New VADA Chair. Rice University Office of Public Affairs. May 3, 2021. He is a contributing editor at Artforum and Frieze.

In 2003 he co-wrote Art - A sex Book with filmmaker John Waters. Hainley's 2006 book of poetry, Foul Mouth, was a finalist in the National Poetry Series.

In 2011 Pep Talk published a collection of Hainley's interviews, critical essays, and poems.

In 2014 Hainley wrote a monograph on the artist Elaine Sturtevant, titled "Under the Sign of ."

• Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985-1988. By Gary Indiana. Edited by Bruce Hainley. Semiotext(e)/MIT Press. 2018.
• Under the Sign of sic. Sturtevant’s Volte-Face. Semiotext(e). 2013. Under the Sign of sic MIT Press. Bruce Hainley. Artforum. 12.02.13. A Long Pan Shot: Andrew Durbin Talks to Bruce Hainley. Poetry Foundation. Harriet blog. Wednesday March 19, 2014.
• Foul Mouth. Los Angeles: 2nd Cannons Publications. 2006.
• Art – A Sex Book. John Waters, Bruce Hainley. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
• Pep Talk Reader. (Edition of 100)]. Bruce Hainley. Bruce Hainley: Pep Talk 5. New York Observer/Culture. Review. 2011.

• Tomma Abts. Essays by Jan Verwoert, Bruce Hainley, Laura Hoptman. New York: Phaidon, 2008.
• Matthew Ronay: Goin' Down, Down, Down. Essays by Michael Glover and Bruce Hainley. Edited by Ziba de Weck Ardalan. Zurich: JRP|Ringier, 2006.
• Urs Fischer: Kir Royal. Essays by Jörg Heiser, Urs Fischer, and Bruce Hainley. Zurich: JRP|Ringier, 2005.
• Tom Friedman (Contemporary Artists). Essays by Bruce Hainley, Dennis Cooper, and Adrian Searle. New York: Phaidon, 2001.

• “To Whom it May Concern.” Red Hook Journal, CSS Bard. August 30, 2011.
• Bruce Hainley, Lisa Lapinski, and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer discuss Sturtevant at 356 S. Mission Rd. December 7, 2013. (Youtube).