Adrienne Edwards is a New York–based art curator, scholar, and writer.
Career
Edwards curated performance commissions at Performa from 2010 to 2018.
From 2016 to in 2018, Edwards worked as curator at large at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
In 2016, she curated a show
Blackness in Abstraction, at
Pace Gallery.
[Andy Battaglia (26 June 2016), Dark Matter at Pace Gallery The Wall Street Journal.] 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
Conceptual art.
Edwards received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University.
She previously taught
art history and
Visual culture at New York University and The New School.
Whitney Biennial 2022
In October 2019, the Whitney Museum announced that Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin would curate the 2022 Whitney Biennial.
She is the official co-curator alongside
David Breslin 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; as well as, contributing to the "Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series" and
Ellen Gallagher's catalog
Accidental Records.
Edwards was the performance reviews editor for the journal of feminist theory
Women & Performance.
Other activities
Edwards chaired the juries that selected
Kapwani Kiwanga for the Frieze Artist Award (2018)
[Grace Halio (15 February 2018), Kapwani Kiwanga Named Winner of the Frieze Artist Award ARTnews.] and
Simone Leigh and
Sonia Boyce for awards at the
Venice Biennale (2022).
[Alex Greenberger (23 April 2022), Black Women Reign Victorious at Venice Biennale as Simone Leigh, Sonia Boyce Win Top Awards ARTnews.] In 2019, she nominated
Yto Barrada for the Prince Pierre Foundation's International Contemporary Art Prize; the prize ultimately went to
Arthur Jafa though.
[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.]
Other activities include:
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