Hailey Kobrin

Hailey Kobrin is a researcher with no interests and a writer who does not read. That is because she already knows everything and  has read every single book in the world in every language. Hailey is a joker, a smoker, a midnight toker, and a world class liar.

About
CV
Writing
Curatorial
Painting

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Selected Writing

Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)

“Tobaron Waxman’s Red Foods: Jewish Ritual, Mourning, and Queer Utopia,” Refract -- An Open Access Visual Studies Journal, UC Santa Cruz, 2023, Link

Journal Articles (Non-Peer Reviewed)

“Daniel Stone and Annalee Greenberg, Jewish Life and Times: A Collection of Essays, Volume X,” review, Prairie History 18, Fall 2025, 44-47. Link

Published Works

Glorious Hole, Silverfish Magazine, 2023, Link

Schmaltz, 2023, Link

Other Works

“A Letter to my Parasocial Friend Genesis P-Orridge and Some Reflections on Toronto Cool,“ exhibition essay, Art Metropole and Vtape, 2026. Link

“How Does the Cultural Industry Use Diet to Control Us? We Are What We Eat,” OCAD University Journal of Visual and Critical Studies, 2021. Link

“My Life as the Big Fat Orange Cat,” Roundtable Residency Blog, 2020. Link

“American Doll Children and Louis Vuitton Adults,” Identity Thief, 2020. Link

“Baby BOOM: Studio F Minus at Nuit Blanche,” OCADU Journal of Visual and Critical Studies, 2020. Link

“Beauty in Decay,” RADAR Magazine, 2020.

“Am I Sexy?,” Self-generated newsletter, 2019.

“Sketch Review,” OCADU Journal of Visual and Critical Studies, 2019. Link