Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is Director of Content at MoMA and he received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Artforum, and Bookforum, among other publications.
Her book THE SLIP: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever (2023) won the New York City Book Award; was longlisted for the National Book Award; was a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize; shortlisted for the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award, Plutarch Award for best biography, and the Apollo Book of the Year Award; was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and appeared on Vanity Fair’s Favorite Books of the Year list. A related exhibition, The Artists of Coenties Slip, was on view at MoMA in 2024-2025.
At MacDowell, Peiffer worked on her forthcoming book on four transformative years in the life and work of the artist Joan Mitchell in Vetheuil, France.
Portrait by Charles Fulford
