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
Curating
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] As of 2018 Edwards, was a Performance Studies Ph.D. student at N.Y.U. [5] In 2016, she curated a show Blackness in Abstraction, at Pace Gallery. [6] [7]
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. [8]
Whitney Biennial 2022
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
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
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
- ^ Bourland, Ian (2018-03-20). "The Whitney's New Curator of Performance Art Is Raising the Stakes". Garage. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (2019-10-07). "Whitney Museum Chooses Curators for Its Next Biennial". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ Valentine, Victoria L. (2021-04-09). "Whitney Museum in New York Promotes Adrienne Edwards From Curator of Performance to Director of Curatorial Affairs". Culture Type. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
- ^ a b c Greenberger, Alex (22 February 2018). "Adrienne Edwards Named Curator of Performance at Whitney Museum". ARTnews.
- ^ "Performance Studies Ph.D. Student Adrienne Edwards Named Curator of Performance at Whitney Museum". tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ Cohen, Alina (2016-07-28). "The Art World's Most Daring – and Fun – Season". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ Andy Battaglia (26 June 2016), Dark Matter at Pace Gallery Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Russonello, Giovanni (2019-09-26). "Jason Moran's Jazz Journey at the Whitney Upends Space and Time". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ Battaglia, Andy (2019-10-07). "For 2021 Edition of Its Closely Watched Biennial, Whitney Museum Goes with Two Recent Hires". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ "Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept". whitney.org. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
- ^ "Adrienne Edwards Has Been Appointed Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum". Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ 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
- A Conversation Between Adrienne Edwards and Okwui Okpokwasili, Dedalus Foundation
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