Dr Jeni Fulton is a critic, researcher and advisor based in Zurich. Her work asks how artistic value is made, and who gets to make it, when the infrastructures of art change, through the market and through computation.

For eight years she was Head of Editorial at Art Basel, where she founded Art Basel Stories, the fair’s global digital magazine, and built it into an international platform spanning text, film and public programming across all five Art Basel fairs. She conceived and produced Intersections, Art Basel’s flagship podcast, whose second season reached #1 on the Spotify Arts Charts in the United States (over 300,000 downloads), and led the editorial side of the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, the most cited annual publication on the art market. Before Art Basel she was Editor in Chief of Sleek magazine.

She writes Messy Business, an art-market column for The Art Journal, and Preisfrage, a monthly market column for Monopol, and contributes criticism and reporting to Frieze, ArtReview, Right Click Save and Spike, among others. Earlier writing has appeared in Apollo and Randian. She has written catalogue essays on Christian Jankowski (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König), Stefano Cagol (Mart, Rovereto) and Michelle Jezierski (DCV), and contributed to the Fourth BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors (Hatje Cantz).

She is researcher and moderator of Correcting the Code: Women, Gender, Technology and the Transformation of Digital Art, a 2026-27 programme by HEK Basel and IfCAR at Zurich University of the Arts, supported by Pro Helvetia. She teaches at the University of Zurich (Executive Master in Art Market Studies) and at Zurich University of the Arts, on the art market, critical writing and the art field. She is preparing a book based on her doctoral research and working on a biography of the digital art pioneer Rebecca Allen.

She advises cultural organisations and companies working where art, markets and technology meet, including the Museum of Artificial Art.

She holds a PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Value and Evaluation in Contemporary Art: From Criticism to the Art Market, magna cum laude, 2016) and read Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She is a member of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) and The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA).

Available for advisory work, commissions, teaching and speaking engagements.

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