Hilton Als Biography

Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in October 1994 and a theatre critic in 2002. He began contributing to the magazine in 1989 writing pieces for The Talk of the Town.
Before coming to The New Yorker Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. He has also written articles for The Nation and collaborated on film scripts for “Swoon” and “Looking for Langston.”
Als edited the catalogue for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition entitled “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art” which ran from November 1994 to March 1995. His first book “The Women” a meditation on gender race and personal identity was published in 1996.
In 1997 the New York Association of Black Journalists awarded Als first prize in both Magazine Critique/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment. He was awarded a Guggenheim for Creative Writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002-03. In 2009 Als worked with the performer Justin Bond on “Cold Water” an exhibition of paintings drawings and videos by performers at La MaMa Gallery. In 2010 he co-curated “Self-Consciousness” at the Veneklasen Werner Gallery in Berlin and published “Justin Bond/Jackie Curtis” his second book.

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