Press
ARTFORUM September 2021
Jessica Baran, “From the Limitations of Now” PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART
The Believer August 2021
Nickolas Calabrese, Can a Tulsa Art Show Help Remake the Heartless Heartland?
Los Angeles Weekly Times July 2021
Michelle Johnson, Art as a ‘Catalyst for Conversations
Glasstire July 2021
Christopher Blay, For Independence Day: Six American Flags by Texas Artists
TulsaWorld May 2021
James D. Watts Jr., Artists create lapel pin of John Lewis flag
The New York Times May 2021
Tess Thackara, It’s About Time.’ Museums Make Bids for Their Communities
The Journal Record March 2021
Lillie-Beth Brinkman, Art helps to illuminate our painful past
Glasstire, December 2020
Artist On Artist: Betelhem Makonnen w/ Christopher Blay, podcast
frieze, December 2020
Lauren Moya Ford, Adrian Aguilera and Betelhem Makonnen’s Vision of an America That Is Yet to Be
Sightlines Magazine, November 2020
Lauren Moya Ford, Adrian Aguilera and Betelhem Makonnen: ‘people the We’
Glasstire Top Five: March 5, 2020, W/ Mark Bradford
Arts and Culture Magazine, March 2020 Jeanne Claire van Ryzen, Rock Reset with her tito’s prize exhibition, Betelhem Makonnen suggests an alternative to our current climate of temporal anxiety
Hyperallergic, December 2019
Billy Anania, Two Transnational Artists Connect Through Shared Experiences of Displacement
Sightlines Magazine December 2019
Barbara Purcell, Retracing the Past Back to the Now
Austin American Statesman October 2019
Michael Barnes, Time collapses for Tito’s Prize winner Betelhem Makonnen
SAIC F Newsmagazine August 6, 2019
Luis Lopez Levi, Low-Residency, High Impact
Austin Chronicle June 2019
Robert Faires, Local Exhibitions Point to Ways People of Color Were Freed but Still Aren't Free. The Carver Museum asks: Freedom when?
Art in America May 2019
Sean J Patrick Carney, Dark Eco - Comedy: Austin’s Fusebox Festival
Sightlines Magazine April 2019
Kaila Schedeen, Trying to get present: Black Mountain Project’s constant escape
Fusebox Festival Blog April 2019
Phillip Townsend, Black Mountain Project: Constant Escape
Interview
Austin Art in Public Places TEMPO Project, October 2018
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Arts and Culture Magazine March 2018
Tarra Gaines, The Geology of Art: Fusebox 2018
Revista Lampejo March 2017
Antônio Carlos Amorim, Daniel Lin(ha)s Nômades
Conflict of Interest, October 2017
Jessi DiTillio, Q+A with Adrian Aguilera + Betelhem Makonnen
Revista Caju April 2017
Analu Cunha, videoarte em transito
Austin Chronicle December 2016
Caitlin Greenwood, Imperialism and identity compete in Betelhem Makonnen’s solo show about a 19th century Ethiopian prince
Arts and Culture Magazine September 2016
Thao Votang, The Honesty of Rocks: Crit Group at GrayDUCK Gallery