Claire Barliant is a Brooklyn-based freelance critic and writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications including Afterall, Art in America, Artforum, Bookforum, and Time Out New York, and in books on the artists IƱigo Manglano-Ovalle and Ann Lislegaard. She is formerly an associate editor of Artforum and an editor of Modern Painters, where she was executive editor from 2007 to 2009.