TESS
GRUENBERG






Tess Gruenberg (b.1994, NYC) is a writer and creative strategist whose lyrical, philosophical approach to storytelling has appeared in Flaunt, Dazed, Beauty Papers, and OFFAL.

From 2018 to 2021, she served as assistant editor at Good Trouble, where she authored and edited over thirty features, conducting intimate interviews across culture, politics, and the arts. Her writing weaves together personal narrative with broader cultural critique, creating pieces that are both deeply researched and poetically rendered. She has since collaborated with artists including Paul Graves, Simons Finnerty, and Barry Yusufu on exhibition texts.

She lives on Patmos, where she runs éla! farm + kitchen—an experimental hospitality project focused on local agriculture, rare wine, and performance.




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Tess Gruenberg (b.1994, NYC) is a writer and creative strategist whose lyrical, philosophical approach to storytelling has appeared in Flaunt, Dazed, Beauty Papers, and OFFAL.

From 2018 to 2021, she served as assistant editor at Good Trouble, where she authored and edited over thirty features, conducting intimate interviews across culture, politics, and the arts. Her writing weaves together personal narrative with broader cultural critique, creating pieces that are both deeply researched and poetically rendered. She has since collaborated with artists including Paul Graves, Simons Finnerty, and Barry Yusufu on exhibition texts.

She lives on Patmos, where she runs éla! farm + kitchen—an experimental hospitality project focused on local agriculture, rare wine, and performance.


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“Lucia Hierro”
Flaunt Magazine
The Looming Issue, Summer 2019
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“The question we ruminate on is a difficult one: how does one subvert an art scene that has a particular talent for codifying acts of resistance? Making the work accessible and simultaneously hard to dissect is a tenuous balance, and failure means conflating political identities into bite-size consumable moments.”


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