“Agosto Machado,” artist page, Museum of Modern Art, New York, online catalogue (2024).
“Cassils, PISSED (2017)” in Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects, ed. David Evans Frantz, Chris E. Vargas, and Christina Linden (Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2023), 254-55.
“Waking Dreams: Colette’s Performance Art,” Pioneer Works Broadcast (10 October 2023).
“Introduction: Scott Burton’s Queer Postminimalism,” Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), 1-41.
“The Spectacle of Privacy: Geoffrey Hendricks’s Ring Piece and the Ambivalence of Queer Visibility,” The Art Bulletin 104.3 (September 2022): 117-45.
“Outing Queer Fluxus: Geoffrey Hendricks in Conversation with David J. Getsy,” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 127 (January 2021): 95-106.
“Multiple Exposures: Sean Fader’s #wishingpelt and Humor in Social Media Performance,” ASAP/Journal 5.3 (September 2020): 515-20.
“Slow Bonds and the Intimacy of Objects: A Conversation between Gordon Hall and David J. Getsy” in Gordon Hall, 'The Number of Inches Between Them,' exh. cat, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Gordon Hall, 2019), 67-89. [Also republished in Gordon Hall, 'OVER-BELIEFS: Collected Writing, 2011–2018' (Portland, Oregon: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 2019), 44-49]
"Stephen Varble's Xerographic Dreams," in Stephen Varble: An Antidote to Nature's Ruin on this Heavenly Globe, Prints and Video from the Early 1980s, exh. cat., curated by David J. Getsy (Lexington, Kentucky: Institute 193, 2018), 3-28.
"A Sight to Withhold: David J. Getsy on Cassils," Artforum (February 2018): 57-60.
"Abstract Bodies and Otherwise: A Conversation with Amelia Jones and David Getsy on Gender and Sexuality in the Writing of Art History," CAAreviews (posted 16 February 2018).
"Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble" in The Archive [of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art] no.62 (Winter 2017), 3-7.
“Abstraction and the Unforeclosed” [conclusion to Abstract Bodies, re: Cassils’s Becoming an Image, transgender capacity, and contemporary abstraction]
"The Image of Becoming: Cassils's Allegories of Transformation," Cassils, exh. cat. (Eindhoven: MU Eindhoven, 2015), 10-22.
"Acts of Stillness: Statues, Performativity, and Passive Resistance," Criticism 56.1 (2014):1-20.
"Queer Formalisms: Jennifer Doyle and David Getsy in Conversation," Art Journal 72.4 (Winter 2013): 58-71.
"Queer Exercises: Amber Hawk Swanson's Performances of Self-Realization," GLQ 19.4 (Fall 2013): 465-85.
"The Primacy of Sensibility: Scott Burton Writing on Art and Performance," in Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965-1975, ed. David Getsy (Chicago: Soberscove Press, 2012), 1-32.
"Mourning, Yearning, Cruising: Ernesto Pujol's Memorial Gestures," PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 90 (September 2008): 11-24.