About
Amelia Farley is a writer and editor based in New York City. Their work examines how infrastructure systems shape public life, with particular regard to healthcare assemblages, environmental illness, and the cultural dimensions of care work. Drawing on methodologies from ecocriticism, media studies, and visual culture, Farley's research attends to the atmospheric—from the material conditions of "sick buildings" to the invisible architectures of care relationships.
As Managing Editor at Karma Books (2019–2023), Farley developed publications in collaboration with major authors such as Hal Foster, Hilton Als, Eileen Myles, Lucy R. Lippard, John Yau, Aruna D'Souza, and Susan Howe. Notable titles include Matthew Wong: Postcards (2020) with texts by Henri Cole and Winnie Wong; The Mayor of Leipzig (2020), a novella by Rachel Kushner; Lee Lozano: Drawings 1958–64 (2021) with essays by Helen Molesworth and Tamar Garb; Woody De Othello (2021) featuring Lauren Schell Dickens and Mario Gooden; Let's Have A Talk (2021) by Lauren O'Neill-Butler; Manoucher Yektai (2021) with contributions from Fereshteh Daftari, Media Farzin, Robert Slifkin, Hadi Fallahpisheh, and Tahereh Fallahzadeh; and Kathleen Ryan: Daisy Chain (2022) with texts by Shannon Mattern and Heather Davis. They have also edited comprehensive monographs on artists such as Louise Fishman, Thaddeus Mosley, Ann Craven, and Reggie Burrows Hodges.
Farley’s editorial practice encompasses editing, writing, and creative consulting across disciplines, including art history, architecture, and web development. Beyond Karma, they have contributed editing and critical writing to The Brooklyn Rail, Queer Thoughts, David Lewis Gallery, and Art Lot, among others. From 2017 to 2019, Farley co-founded and directed Paradise, an itinerant curatorial project and publication platform. Their curatorial work spans exhibitions for Paradise, Free Paarking, and Alyssa Davis Gallery, with their own work shown at Mole End, New York (2019), Performance Studies, NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2018), and OSLO10, Basel, Switzerland (2016). Their sound work has been featured on Noods Radio (Bristol, United Kingdom), Maitre d'360 87.9 FM (Seattle, Washington), and Berlin Community Radio. Current projects include archival research on cultural programs within healthcare workers' movements, consulting on digital education platforms, and indexing for academic presses. Their criticism has appeared in Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail, and they are at work on both critical and literary manuscripts that probe the spatial and temporal politics of care.
amelia.r.farley (at) gmail.com