Margaret Hooks
 Margaret Hooks 2006 • Infinity Award, New York: Nominated for Excellence in Writing on Photography • Kraszna-Kraus Book Award: London,1995 Runner-up prize |
M argaret Hooks is a writer whose books on art and artists have appeared in many languages. She has written for numerous publications in the United States, Europe and the Americas; these include ARTnews, VOGUE, Grand Street, Afterimage, ELLE and The Photograph Collector. Hooks is a member of the Author's Guild, New York and the Writers Guild of America East. During the 1990s, she lived and worked in Mexico where she was correspondent for ARTnews covering Mexico City's vibrant art milieu. Arriving in Miami in 1997 as a Contributing Editor for ARTnews, Hooks immersed herself in Miami’s then-nascent contemporary art scene. Her award-winning biography of Italian photographer Tina Modotti was published in 1993. It is now available in seven languages and has been optioned by leading Hollywood film companies. In 1998, Hooks was hired by Disney Pictures to write a film treatment on the life of Tina Modotti. After a visit to Xilitla in 1987 she became interested in the English surrealist Edward James. She has written on the life and work of James for ARTnews (1998) and Grand Street(2004) and her book Surreal Eden: Edward James & Las Pozas, the first to be written on his surreal masterwork in the Mexican jungle, was published to critical acclaim in 2006. In addition to her writing, Margaret is a certified art appraiser. She has been the guest curator of exhibitions on Tina Modotti in Paris and in San Francisco and served on the Advisory Board of the Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City, the Juried Artists Selection Committee at the Art Center of South Florida. She is also on the Avisory Board of the Xilitla Foundation which recently acquired Las Pozas. She has travelled extensively in Asia & Latin America and lived in New York, London and Mexico City. |
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