Adrienne Edwards is a New York-based art curator, scholar, and writer. Edwards is currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...
.
Career
Curating
Edwards curated performance commissions at
Performa
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from 2010 to 2018.
Prior to moving to the Whitney in 2018, Edwards worked as curator at large at the
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...
in Minneapolis. She held that position since 2016.
As of 2018 Edwards, was a Performance Studies Ph.D. student at N.Y.U. In 2016, Edwards curated a show ''Blackness in Abstraction'', at Pace Gallery.
In 2019, Edwards with Danielle A. Jackson curated an exhibition at the Whitney: ''
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* Jason Moran (musician)
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'', the first museum survey devoted to the
MacArthur-winning
pianist
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and
conceptualist
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.
Whitney Biennial 2022
In October 2019, the Whitney Museum announced that Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin would curate the
2022 Whitney Biennial
The 2022 Whitney Biennial, titled ''Quiet as It's Kept'', is the Whitney Museum's art biennial, hosted between April and September 2022. Described by Artnews as the "most closely watched contemporary art exhibition in the United States", the b ...
. She is the official co-curator alongside
David Breslin
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for ''
Quiet as It’s Kept'', the eighteenth iteration of the landmark exhibition. 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
The Pace Gallery is an American contemporary and modern art gallery with 9 locations worldwide. It was founded in Boston by Arne Glimcher in 1960. His son, Marc Glimcher, is now president and CEO. Pace Gallery operates in New York, London, Hong ...
; as well as, contributing to the "
Carrie Mae Weems
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: The Kitchen Table Series" and
Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher (born December 16, 1965) is an American artist. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums. Her media include painting, works on paper, film and ...
's catalog ''Accidental Records''. Edwards was the performance reviews editor for the journal of feminist theory ''Women & Performance.
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Other activities
In 2022, Edwards chaired the jury of the
Venice Biennale
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.
[Alex Greenberger (23 April 2022)]
Black Women Reign Victorious at Venice Biennale as Simone Leigh, Sonia Boyce Win Top Awards
''ARTnews
''ARTnews'' is an American visual-arts magazine, based in New York City. It covers art from ancient to contemporary times. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. It has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countri ...
''.
References
External links
A Conversation Between Adrienne Edwards and Okwui Okpokwasili Dedalus Foundation
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Living people
American art curators
American women curators
People associated with the Whitney Museum of American Art
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women