2022

Sietsema, Paul and Eva Fabbris. Anticultural Positions: the Flea Market of History. Pompeii Commitments 40, March 2022.

“Anything Can Become a Language: Archaeology, Obsolescence and Meaning in Paul Sietsema’s Process of Undoing.” Trebuchet 11, March 2022, pp. 39–47.

2019

Butler, Connie, and Paul Sietsema. “Busy Signals.” ARTnews 117, no. 4, Winter 2019, pp. 92–95.

Meister, Carolin. “Überfahrt: Marcel Broodthaer's Archäologie der Vervielfältigung.” Von analogen und digitalen Zugängen zur Kunst, 2019, pp. 225–239.

2017

Duncan, Thomas. “Paul Sietsema.” Flash Art 50, no. 312, January/February 2017, pp. 74–75.

2016

Baker, George. “The Black Mirror.” October, no. 158, Fall 2016, pp. 31–66.

Drohojowska-Philp. “Paul Sietsema at Matthew Marks.”NPR-KCRW, December 15, 2016.

Griffin, Tim. “Shifting Positionalities.” Mousse Magazine, no. 55, October/November 2016, pp. 122–30.

Herbert, Martin. “Question the Wall Itself.” Artforum, September 2016, p. 173.

Knight, Christopher. “Paul Sietsema’s first L.A. Show of New Conceptual Art was Worth the 14-Year Wait.” Los Angeles Times, November 10, 2016, p. E8.

Muenzer, David. “Paul Sietsema.” Artforum, October 24, 2016 (online).

Shaw, Michael. “Paul Sietsema.” ArtScene, November/December 2016, pp. 21–22.

2015

Geers, David. “Paul Sietsema.” Frieze, no. 168, January/February 2015, p. 141.

2014

Mercurio, Franck. “Paul Sietsema – MCA.” Flash Art 47, no. 295, March/April 2014, pp. 92–93.

Walsh, Brienne. “Paul Sietsema at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.” Modern Painters 26, no. 1, April 2014, p. 92.

2013

Filipovic, Elena. “Paul Sietsema: Wexner Center for the Arts.” Artforum 51, no. 9, May 2013, p. 156.

Holte, Michael Ned. “Best of Artforum.” Artforum, December 2013.

“Museum Previews.” Art in America, July 2013.

Sietsema, Paul. “Anticultural Positions.” Messy Sky Magazine, Summer 2013, pp. 32–36.

———. “Walk through.” Peep-Hole Sheet, no. 15, Winter 2013.

Soulard, Ida. “Paul Sietsema, ‘The Sentence’, Tulips & Roses, Bruxelles.” Frog, no. 12, 2013, p. 128.

Williams, Gilda. “Paul Sietsema.” Artforum 51, no. 6, February 2013, p. 255.

2012

Gauthier, Michel. “Le Macule et le Médiat.” 20/27, no. 6, pp. 128–48.

Gopnik, Blake. “Painting Paints Itself.” The Daily Beast, June 18, 2012 (online).

Kennicott, Philip. “‘Shock of the News’ at the National Gallery of Art a fascinating cross section of art news.” The Washington Post, June 20, 2012.

Meisler, Stanley. “Read All About It: Newspapers as Art in Exhibit.” Los Angeles Times, October 16, 2012 (online).

Rotella, Carlo. “Recycled Newsprint: ‘Shock of the News,’ on Artists and Newspapers.” The New York Times, November 30, 2012.

Smyth, Cherry. “Paul Sietsema: The Drawing Room, London.” Art Monthly, no. 361, November 2012, pp. 30–31.

Stout, Katharine. “More to Meet the Eye.” Tate Etc., no. 24, Spring 2012, p. 11.

Zakaitis, Jonas. “A Certain Kind of Realism.” Spike Quarterly, Spring 2012, pp. 72–83.

2011

Bedford, Christopher. “A Project.” Art Journal, Spring 2011, cover, pp. 54–69.

“Drawn From Photography.” The Art Newspaper, March 2011.

Esplund, Lance. “Drawn from Photography.” The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2011.

Kerr, Merrily. “Paul Sietsema.” Time Out New York, June 2–6, 2011, p. 41.

Kunitz, Daniel. “Paul Sietsema.” Modern Painters, September 2011, p. 90.

———. “Paul Sietsema and the Trompe L ‘Oeil Avant Garde.” Artinfo, May 16, 2011.

Mizota, Sharon. “‘Open-Ended Works Require an Open Mind.” Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2011, pp. D1, D6.

Rosenberg, Karen. “Authorship or Translation? Notes toward redefining creativity.” The New York Times, February 25, 2011, p. C26.

Scott, Andrea K. “Winning Hand.” The New Yorker, March 21, 2011, p. 10.

Troeller, Jordan. “Paul Sietsema.” Artforum, June 11, 2011.

Xtina. “See All of This and Nothing at UCLA Hammer Museum.”Wherela, March 11, 2011.

2010

Baker, Kenneth. “Hauntology: Perception Makes Art Spookier.” San Francisco Chronicle, August 12, 2010, p. F3.

Clark, Martin. “Reasons to be Cheerful!” Frieze131, May 2010, p. 96.

Coxhead, Gabriel. “Paul Sietsema.” Time Out New York(London), July 25, 2010, p. 37.

Fite-Wassilak, Chris. “Paul Sietsema.” Frieze 134, October 2010, p. 245.

Hamilton, Julia E. “A Spectre is Haunting Berkeley.” ArtSlant, August 2, 2010.

Hosman, Hayley. “BAM Conjures the Ghost of Hauntology.” The Daily Californian, July 15, 2010.

Johnson, Ken. “Spirals of Self-Reflection, Made by Methods Mysterious.” The New York Times, January 8, 2010, p. C34.

Prince, Mark. “Gordon Matta-Clark.” Frieze 134, October 2010.

––––. “Art and Illusionism.” Art Monthly339, September 2010, pp. 11–14.

––––. “Paul Sietsema.” Art in America 98, no. 10, November 2010, pp. 191–92.

“Paul Sietsema.” The Guardian Guide, July 3–9, 2010.

Stander, Sam. “Against Nostalgia.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 20, 2010.

Wing, Liz. “Hauntology.” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2010.

2009

“El Museo Reina Sofia inicia el programa ‘Fisuras’ con Paul Sietsema.” Adn, March 15, 2009.

Goldstein, Andrew. “Dig It: Paul Sietsema at MoMA.” cityArts, December 3, 2009.

“Paul Sietsema.” The New Yorker, November 2, 2009, p. 16.

“Paul Sietsema en las ‘Fisuras’ del Reina Sofía.” Revista de Arte, May 19, 2009.

Rosenberg, Karen. “3 Artists Selected by Dan Graham and a Work by Dan Graham.” The New York Times, May 8, 2009, p. C29.

“Sietsema inaugura ‘Fisuras’ en el Museo Reina Sofía.” El Mundo, May 19, 2009.

Velasco, David. “Dance: Best of 2009.” Artforum 48, December 2009, p. 69.

2008

Bankowsky, Jack. “Paul Sietsema: Figure 3.” Artforum 47, December 2008, p. 273.

Herbert, Martin. “5th Berlin Biennial.” Frieze, May 2008, pp. 165–66.

Knight, Christopher. “Extraterrestrial Earthlings Find ‘Life.’”Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2008, pp. E1, E6–E7.

Johnson, Ken. “Modernist Optimism and Postmodernist Doubt.” The New York Times, August 22, 2008, p. E29.

Morrone, Francis. “Changing Times, Changing Notions: ‘Progress’ at the Whitney.” The New York Sun, August 14, 2008.

Muchnic, Suzanne. “Goes the Old-Fashion Way.” Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2008, pp. E1, E12.

Schwarting, Jen. “Progress.” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2008, p. 31.

Searle, Adrian. “Toil and Rubble.” The Guardian, April 8, 2008.

Sietsema, Paul. “The Famous Last Words.” F.R. David, Winter 2008, pp. 182–87.

Smith, Roberta. “An Alien Sighting on Planet Pittsburgh.” The New York Times, May 9, 2008, pp. B25–B26.

Vesters, Christel. “Paul Sietsema.” Flash Art41, July/September 2008, p. 254.

West, Kevin. “Shape Shifter.”W Magazine, April 2008, p. 182.

“Whitney Museum of American Art.” The New Yorker, September 25, 2006, p. 16.

2006

“Anne Collier & Paul Sietsema: Discipline.” The Wrong Times, pp. 3–4.

Blom, Ina. “The Young Americans.” Texte zur Kunst, no. 61, March 2006.

Cueff, Alain. “L’empire de la vision: Paul Sietsema, ‘Empire’, 2002.” Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, no. 98, Winter 2006/07, pp. 22–29.

Hainley, Bruce. “Activiteit Los Angeles, DEEL 2: Vluchtige notities 1985–2006.” Metropolis M27, no. 3, June/July 2006, pp. 75–79.

Sietsema, Paul. “Focus Los Angeles: Paul Sietsema.” Flash Art 39, January/February 2006, pp. 68–75.

“Some Notes on Content.” Uncertain States of America: America in the 3rd Millennium, December 2006, pp. 102–05.

2005

Black, Ezrha Jean. “Ecstasy.” Art US 11, December /January 2005–06.

Gronlund, Melissa. “A Certain Tendency in Representation.” Frieze, November/December 2005, p. 146.

Hall, James. “‘Real World.’” Artforum 43, no. 6, February 2005, p. 186.

Knight, Christopher. “Take a Mind Excursion.” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2005, pp. E1, E5.

Pincus, Robert L. “Alter Your State of Mind at ‘Ecstasy.’” San Diego Union Tribune, November 20, 2005.

2004

“Art Acquisitions in 2003: Paul Sietsema.” American Patrons of the Tate: Annual Report 2003, 2003, pp. 22–23.

Harrison, Sara. “Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience.” Art Monthly, no. 281, November 2004, pp. 36–37.

Sietsema, Paul. “Ground Control.” Artforum 43, no. 2, October 2004, pp. 152, 286, 288.

2003

Anton, Saul. “Paul Sietsema.”Artforum 41, no. 10, June 2003, p. 183.

Baker, George, Matthew Buckingham, Hal Foster, Chrissie Iles, Anthony McCall, and Malcolm Turvey. “Round Table: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art.” October 104, Spring 2003, p. 85.

Fence Magazine 6, no. 1, 2003, p. 96.

Menin, Samuele, and Valentine Sansone. “Focus Video and Film: Contemporary Video Art (Part II).” Flash Art, March/April 2003, p. 98.

Myers, Terry. “Paul Sietsema: Form Projector.” Contemporary 57, November 2003, pp. 32–35.

“Paul Sietsema: Empire.” The New Yorker, April 21, 2003, p. 36.

Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Paul Sietsema, ‘Empire.’” The New York Times, May 23, 2003, p. E36.

Wilkin, Karen. “Paul Sietsema at the Whitney.” Art in America 91, no. 10, October 2003, pp. 127–28.

2002

Art & Auction, October 2002, p. 44.

Hainley, Bruce. “Best of 2002.” Artforum, December 2002, pp. 128–29.

———. “Model Theory.”Frieze71, November/December 2002, pp. 90–93.

Helfand, Glen. “Los Angeles Critics’ Pick: Paul Sietsema.” Artforum, September 2002.

———. “Work That Seems to Hold That Thought.” Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2002, pp. F1, F11.

Iles, Chrissie. “Best of 2002.” Artforum, December 2002, p. 27.

Knight, Christopher. “In the Tiniest Gestures, Delicacy on an Epic Scale.” Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2002, pp. F25–F25.

Rinder, Lawrence. “Film Set.” Nest17, Summer 2002, pp. 92–99.

Sietsema, Paul. “Paul Sietsema.” Charley1, January 2002.

Smee, Sebastian. “Empire, by Paul Sietsema, Regen Projects, Los Angeles.” The Art Newspaper 13, no. 9, October 2002, p. 9.

2001

Baker, Kenneth. “Just Look at the Sculpture and There is Los Angeles.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2001, pp. B1, B10.

Corrigan, Susan. “New York Sucks!” I-D, October 2001, pp. 184–90.

Cooper, Jacqueline. “Shiny Happy People: Art and Special Effects.” New Art Examiner, July/August 2001, p. 74.

Darwent, Charles. “Visual Art: American Art is Different Now.” The Independent, October 28, 2001.

Hackworth, Nick. “Puddles, Plants and One Small Joy.” The Evening Standard, November 6, 2001.

Herbert, Martin. “States of the Art.”ArtReview, October 2001, p. 51.

Knight, Christopher. “A Little of This.” Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2001, p. F22.

Shamash, Diane. “Nature, Faith and Commerce.” Art in America, December 2001, pp. 38–42.

Sietsema, Paul. “Paul McCarthy by Paul Sietsema.” Issue 5, 2001, pp. 148–53.

Yablonsky, Linda. “Downtown Armory: Surviving the Growing Pains.” Art and Auction, no. 4, April 2001, p. 74.

2000

Blackwell, Josh. “’Mise-en-Scene’ at Santa Monica Museum of Art.” Art Issues, no. 64, September/October 2000, p. 56.

Hainley, Bruce. “Towards a Funner Laocoön.” Artforum38, no. 10, Summer 2000, pp. 166–73.

Knight, Christopher. “A Web of Illusion.” Los Angeles Times, June 28, 2000, pp. F1, F10.

———. “Young L.A. Sculptors.” Los Angeles Times, December 24, 2000, p. 67.

“Paul Sietsema.” ZOO6, August 2000, p. 198.

1999
Bartolucci, Noah. “A Critical Look at L.A. Myths.” Dialogue, April 4, 1999, p. 5.

Greenberg, Blue. “Artifice Makes Arty Reality in Duke Exhibit.” The Herald Sun, April 16, 1999, p. 4.

Hainley, Bruce. “Openings: Paul Sietsema.” Artforum 37, no. 6, February 1999, p. 86.

———. “Paul Sietsema: Showing What's Missing.” Interview, June 1999, p. 50.

Kauffman, Susan. “...A Perfect image of L.A.” The New Observer, April 13, 1999, p. 12.

Natale, Michele. “West Meets East.” Spectator, May 18, 1999, p. 23.

Twardy, Chuck. “Home on the Strange.” What's Up, May 14, 1999, p. 25.

1998

Delaney, Ella. “Mark Grotjahn, Paul Sietsema, and Brent Petersen.” Art Papers 22, January/February 1998, p. 40.

ZYZZYVA14, no. 1, Spring 1998, p. 151 (reproduction of Hospital Drawing, 1996).

1997

Helfand, Glen. “Brent Petersen, Mark Grotjahn, Paul Sietsema.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 16, 1997, p. 28.

1996

Fazzolari, Bruno. “Mark Grotjahn and Paul Sietsema at Four Walls.” Artweek 27, May 1996, p. 21.

Hankwitz, Molly. “Mark Grotjahn and Paul Sietsema.” Art Papers 20, July/August 1996, pp. 54–55.