
Chris Kraus
Author · 16 books
Chris Kraus is a writer, filmmaker, and professor of film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Her books include I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, and Torpor. Video Green, Kraus' first non-fiction book examines the explosion of late 1990s art by high-profile graduate programs that catapulted Los Angeles into the center of the international art world. Her films include Gravity & Grace, How To Shoot A Crime, and The Golden Bowl, or, Repression.
Books

Aliens & Anorexia
1860

Kink
Stories
2021

Kelly Lake Store & Other Stories
2012

Summer of Hate
2012

The Bastard Factory
2022

Where Art Belongs
2011

After Kathy Acker
A Biography
2017

Video Green
Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness
2004

Torpor
2006

The Four Spent the Day Together
2025

Social Practices (Semiotext
2018

Lost Properties
2014

I Love Dick
1997

LA Artland
Contemporary Art From Los Angeles
2005

You Must Make Your Death Public
2015

Pics or It Didn't Happen
Images Banned From Instagram
2017