Leah Ollman is a renowned art critic and writer who has written about the visual arts for over thirty years. Since 1987, she’s been an art critic for the Los Angeles Times and, since 1997, a corresponding editor at Art in America. She holds an M.A. in Art History from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts (1986) and a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from Scripps College (1983).
Her writing spans exhibition catalogues, books, and features, including essays for institutions such as Aperture, Radius, and Datz Press. Among her published works are The Photographs of John Brill (2003) and William Kentridge: Weighing… and Wanting (2001). Most recently, she has edited Ensnaring the Moment: On the Intersection of Poetry and Photography (Saint Lucy Books, 2025), an anthology of 112 poems from across a century that explore photography’s emotional and conceptual resonances.
