About
Eleonor Botoman is a poet-critic based in New York City. She currently is a graduate student in New York University’s Experimental Humanities and Museum Studies programs, studying climate resiliency in museum architecture and environmental art curation and education.
She is also the writer behind the newsletter, Screenshot Reliquary.
She has held positions at a number of cultural institutions and publications including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, David Zwirner Books, Bridge Initiative, Elle Communications, Brooklyn Art Library/The Sketchbook Project, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artforum, Oxford University Press, Irregular Labs, Pen America, Bust Magazine, and the Center for Architecture, among others.
Center For Book Arts – Creative Publishing Seminar Participant – January 2021
Barnard College – Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Honorable Mention–April 2019
The Mantle – Best of The Net Award Nomination – July 2018
Symbiotic House – contributor for AI-generated speculative architecture project – (print forthcoming)
Passerby – “paradigm-shifting books of poetry” – featured book recommendation – April 2023
Paroxysm Projects – press release co-author and editor for exhibition at Westbeth Gallery – February 2023
Fast Company – “4 ways to compete for talent if your workforce can’t be remote” – interviewed for story – December 2022
Buzzfeed News – “It Was Supposed To Be A Benign TikTok On ‘Botanical Sexism,’ But Then It Spiraled Into A Huge Social Media Debate” – August 2021
VeryWell Health – “You Can Blame Your Allergies on ‘Botanical Sexism,’ TikTokers Say” – August 2021
The Eel-centric Hypothetical Atlas on How Humans Have Sex – Noam Youngrak Son – Design Academy Eindhoven Graduate Thesis – editor – July 2021
Refinery29 – “Should You Ask Your Cute Friend Out? Advice From People Who’ve Been There” – interviewed for story – July 2019
CUE Art Foundation – Formula 1: A Loud, Low Hum – proposal for artwork (print) – April 2019
The Oxford Comment – pitched, researched, coordinated episode on organized crime in cinema – 2018
Ratrock Magazine – featured artist – November 2017