Seph Rodney, PhD was born in Jamaica, and came of age in the Bronx, New York. He is a senior critic for Hyperallergic, and writes on visual art and related issues. He has also written forTheNew York Times, CNN Op-ed pages,American Craft Magazine and NBC Universal, and penned catalog essays for Crystal Bridges Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Art, Teresita Fernandez, Meleko Mokgosi, and Joyce J. Scott. He can be heard weekly on the podcast “The American Age”. His book,The Personalization of the Museum Visit, was published by Routledge in May of 2019. In 2020 he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize.