Adrienne Edwards
Adrienne Edwards is a New York–based art curator, scholar, and writer.[1][2] Edwards is currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[3]
Career
[edit | edit source]Edwards curated performance commissions at Performa from 2010 to 2018.[4] From 2016 to in 2018, Edwards worked as curator at large at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.[4] In 2016, she curated a show Blackness in Abstraction, at Pace Gallery.[5][6] In 2019, Edwards with Danielle A. Jackson curated an exhibition at the Whitney: Jason Moran, the first museum survey devoted to the MacArthur-winning pianist and conceptualist.[7] Edwards received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University.[8] She previously taught art history and visual studies at New York University and The New School.[8]
Whitney Biennial 2022
[edit | edit source]In October 2019, the Whitney Museum announced that Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin would curate the 2022 Whitney Biennial.[9] She is the official co-curator alongside David Breslin for Quiet as It's Kept, the eighteenth iteration of the landmark exhibition.[10] The 2022 Whitney Biennial officially opens to the public on April 6, 2022.
Writing
[edit | edit source]Edwards authored the catalog for Blackness in Abstraction, the group exhibition she organized at Pace Gallery; as well as, contributing to the "Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series" and Ellen Gallagher's catalog Accidental Records.[11] Edwards was the performance reviews editor for the journal of feminist theory Women & Performance.[4]
Other activities
[edit | edit source]Edwards chaired the juries that selected Kapwani Kiwanga for the Frieze Artist Award (2018)[12] and Simone Leigh and Sonia Boyce for awards at the Venice Biennale (2022).[13] In 2019, she nominated Yto Barrada for the Prince Pierre Foundation's International Contemporary Art Prize; the prize ultimately went to Arthur Jafa though.[14][15]
Other activities include:
- Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, Member of the Advisory Board (since 2019)[16]
- Denniston Hill, Member of the Advisory Board[17]
References
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- ^ Andy Battaglia (26 June 2016), Dark Matter at Pace Gallery The Wall Street Journal.
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- ^ Grace Halio (15 February 2018), Kapwani Kiwanga Named Winner of the Frieze Artist Award ARTnews.
- ^ Alex Greenberger (23 April 2022), Black Women Reign Victorious at Venice Biennale as Simone Leigh, Sonia Boyce Win Top Awards ARTnews.
- ^ Annie Armstrong (17 April 2019), Here's the Shortlist for the $85,000 Prix International d'Art Contemporain ARTnews.
- ^ Arthur Jafa Wins $83,000 International Prize for Contemporary Art Artforum, 16 October 2019.
- ^ Maximilíano Durón (March 2019), ICA VCU Adds Adam Pendleton, Adrienne Edwards to Advisory Board Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU.
- ^ Advisory Board Denniston Hill.
External links
[edit | edit source]- A Conversation Between Adrienne Edwards and Okwui Okpokwasili Archived 2022-06-28 at the Wayback Machine, Dedalus Foundation
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