Lauren Cornell is an American curator and writer based in New York. Cornell is the Director of the Graduate Program at the

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Founded in 1990, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present. The Center initiated its graduate program in 1994 ...

, and Chief Curator of the

Hessel Museum of Art The CCS Hessel Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of Bard College, in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. The museum was built in 2006. The Hessel Museum is housed in the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS). The Museum draws from t ...

. Previously, she worked at the

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sc ...

for twelve years and was the Executive Director of their affiliate

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(2005-2012).

Biography

Cornell was born and raised in New York City. She started her career in the arts as the Executive Director of Ocularis, a now-closed cinema in Brooklyn, New York. She joined the

in 2005, where she worked on the inaugural Generational show, ''Younger Than Jesus'', and became the Executive Director of

, an organization that commissions, exhibits, and preserves art engaged with technology. Cornell curated ''Free'', her first major exhibition for the New Museum in October 2010. Before stepping down as director of Rhizome, Cornell promoted discussion around the decentralization of new media art on the internet. After seven years at Rhizome, she stepped down as its director to serve as a full-time curator at The New Museum in 2012. She stepped down from her role at Rhizome in July 2012 to curate the

's third Generational Triennial, ''Surround Audience,'' in 2015. Cornell and

Ed Halter Ed Halter is a film programmer, writer, and founder of Light Industry, a microcinema in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at Bard College, where he is Critic in Residence. Criticism His writing has been featured in ''Artforum'', '' The ...

co-edited the anthology ''Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century'' (2016). She has contributed to publications including ''Aperture,'' ''Art in America,'' ''ArtReview,'' ''Frieze,'' and ''Mousse,'' and written on artists for monographic catalogues. In 2016, Artsy named Cornell one of "The 20 Most Influential Young Curators in the United States." In 2017, Cornell was the recipient of ArtTable's New Leadership Award. In 2017, she was named an Apollo 40 under 40.

Seven on Seven conference

In 2010, Cornell co-founded

's ''Seven on Seven'' conference with Fred Benenson, John Borthwick, and Peter Rojas. The conference bridges contemporary art and technology fields by pairing technological innovators with visual artists and challenging them to develop something over the course of a day. ''Seven on Seven'' was inspired by

Experiments in Art and Technology Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a non-profit and tax-exempt organization, was established in 1967 to develop collaborations between artists and engineers. The group operated by facilitating person-to-person contacts between artists and e ...

(E.A.T.), a project launched by

Billy Klüver Johan Wilhelm Klüver (November 11, 1927 – March 20, 2004) was an electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who founded Experiments in Art and Technology. Klüver lectured extensively on art and technology and social issues to be address ...

and

Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...

in 1967, which organized collaborations between artists and engineers at

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

Exhibitions

* ''Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Black on White, Gray Ascending,'' December 2007 – March 2008 (co-curated with Laura Hoptman) * New Museum Triennial: ''Younger Than Jesus,'' April–July 2009 (co-curated with

Massimiliano Gioni Massimiliano Gioni (born 1973) is an Italian curator and contemporary art critic based in New York City, and Artistic Director at the New Museum. He is the Artistic Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan as well as the Artistic Dire ...

and Laura Hoptman) * ''Free,'' October 2010-January 2011 * ''Walking Drifting Dragging,'' January–February 2013 * New Museum Triennial: Surround Audience, February–May 2015 (co-curated with

Ryan Trecartin Ryan Trecartin (born 1981) is an American artist and filmmaker currently based in Athens, Ohio. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA in 2004. Trecartin has since lived and worked in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Ph ...

) * ''Song, Strategy, Sign: Beatriz Santiago Munoz'' (co-curated with Johanna Burton and Sara O’Keeffe) * ''Invisible Adversaries'' at CCS Bard, June–September 2016 (co-curated with Tom Eccles) * ''Daniel Steegmann Mangrane: A Transparent Leaf Instead of the Mouth'' at CCS Bard * ''Nil Yalter: Exile is a Hard Job'' at CCS Bard * ''Leidy Churchman: Crocodile'' at CCS Bard * ''Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere'' at CCS Bard * ''Dara Birnbaum: Reaction'' at CCS Bard * ''Martine Syms: Grio College'' at CCS Bard

Selected writings

* ''The Intensity and Integrity of Ian White,'' Frieze * ''Mass Effect,'' Mousse Magazine * ''Self-Portraiture in the First-Person Age,'' Aperture * ''In the Studio: Dara Birnbaum,'' Art in America * ''Techno-animism,'' Mousse Magazine * ''Down the Line'', Frieze * ''If the Future Were Now: A.K. Burns,'' Mousse Magazine * ''On Club Internet'', Mousse Magazine

Publications

* Cornell, Lauren, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman, eds. ''Younger Than Jesus: The Reader.'' New York: New Museum / London: Steidl & Partners, 2009. * Cornell, Lauren, ed., ''Free''. New York/New Museum, 2010. * Cornell, Lauren and Helga Christoffersen, eds. ''2015 Triennial: Surround Audience''. New York: New Museum / Rizzoli Skira, 2015. * Cornell, Lauren and

, eds. ''Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century''. New York: New Museum / Cambridge, MA: the MIT Press, 2015. * Cornell, Lauren and Eccles, Tom, eds. ''Invisible Adversaries''. New York: Hessel Museum, 2016. * Cornell, Lauren, Karen Kelly, and Barbara Schroeder, eds., ''Leidy Churchman: Crocodile.'' New York: Hessel Museum / CCS Bard, 2019. * Cornell, Lauren, Elizabeth Chodos, and Barbara Schroeder, eds., ''Dara Birnbaum: Reaction.'' New York: Hessel Museum / CCS Bard, 2022.

References

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