Prudence Peiffer Email & Phone Number

Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor, specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is currently Director of Content at MoMA, New York, where she leads content production across moma.org, YouTube, and Spotify. She received her Ph.D from Harvard University; following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, she was a Senior Editor at Artforum magazine from 2012-2017, and Digital Content Director at David Zwirner in 2018. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books online, Artforum, and Bookforum, among other publications. THE SLIP, about the artists of Coenties Slip in 1950s-60s New York (Harper, August 2023) was longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year award and the Plutarch award for best biography of the year, won the New York City Book Award, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.