BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2025 – 2026

Deborah Solomon

For a biography of Jasper Johns

Deborah Solomon is an art critic, journalist and biographer. She writes frequently for the New York Times, and is currently at work on a full-scale biography of the artist Jasper Johns.  Her books include Jackson Pollock: A Biography (1987); Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell (1997); and American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (2013).

In 2001, Solomon was awarded a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in the field of biography. Her weekly interview column, “Questions For,” appeared in The New York Times Magazine from 2003 to 2011. She has served as an art critic for The Wall Street Journal and WNYC Public Radio.