Cathryn Drake

Professional Experience

Cathryn Drake is a freelance writer and editor. She has held editorial positions including copy chief of design magazine Metropolis, editor at the Museum of Modern Art, and international correspondent for Arforum magazine. Currently, she edits publications for the Yale School of Architecture and collaborates with book publishers, cultural institutions, curators, and academics. She has written about art, design, and culture for numerous publications, including e-flux Criticism, frieze, Metropolis, Men’s Vogue, BBC, Time Magazine, Kathimerini, New York Times International, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. She has contributed essays to many exhibition catalogs, such as “Present Perfect: Meme and Memory,” on artist Leonard Qylafi, for the Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She also curated the exhibition “The Presence of Absence, or the Catastrophe Theory,” at Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC) in Cyprus and Izolyatsia in Kyiv, Ukraine.