Dr. Adrienne Edwards is a Whitney Museum curator known for the recent exhibition “Edges of Ailey”, a survey devoted to the legacy of dance legend Alvin Ailey. Her credits include the co-curation of the 2022 Whitney Biennial: “Quiet as It’s Kept” and “Jason Moran”, which traveled around the country from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus.
Other notable curations include “Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise”, a series of performances based on a text co-written by Wu Tsang, boychild, and Fred Moten; “Dave McKenzie: The Story I Tell Myself”, with its pendant performance commission “Disturbing the View”; and the performance collective My Barbarian’s twentieth-anniversary exhibition which traveled to The Institute of Contemporary in LA.
In addition to exhibitions, Edwards was also part of the Whitney’s core team for David Hammons’s public art monument, “Day’s End”. She also served as the President of the International Jury of the 59th Venice Biennale. She has taught art history, performance, and visual studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York University, and the New School, and her writing has appeared in numerous monographs, exhibition catalogs, journals, and magazines.
Join us at ArtCenter College of Design for a look behind some of today’s most enlightening exhibitions and learn from the mastermind who made them happen.
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