Ray Rinaldi

Writer & Critic

Ray Mark Rinaldi is a journalist, editor and critic-at-large based in Denver and Mexico City. He writes about art and classical music, contributing regularly to the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Dwell, Opera America, Chamber Music magazine and other publications. For the past decade, he has served as the art critic for the Denver Post, writing a weekly column about artists, galleries and museums.

He served on the two most recent juries for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. In 2018, he was awarded the Rabkin Prize for visual arts writing. He is a former fellow with the National Arts Journalism Program, based at Columbia University in New York.

Recently completed articles include an interview with the Mexico City-based design team Esrawe+Cadena, which created forward-looking custom furniture and graphics for the newly-renovated Denver Art Museum, published in the Denver Post, and a critical feature on the country of Mexico’s upcoming national pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, written for the New York Times.