Adrienne Edwards

November 2023-February 2024

Dr. Adrienne Edwards is Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She co-curated the 2022 Whitney Biennial and was President of the International Jury of the 59th Venice Biennale. She is currently organizing an exhibition, performance program, and catalogue on the choreographer Alvin Ailey, which opens at the Whitney in September 2024. Previously, she served as curator of Performa in New York City and as Curator at large for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Edwards’s curatorial projects have also included the critically acclaimed exhibition and catalogue 'Blackness in Abstraction' hosted by Pace Gallery (2016); the traveling exhibition and catalogue ‘Jason Moran’ at Walker Art Center, ICA Boston, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2018-2019); ‘Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise’ (2020), a series of performances based on a text co-written by Wu Tsang, boychild, and Fred Moten at the Whitney; Dave McKenzie's first solo museum exhibition in New York City 'The Story I Tell Myself' and its pendant performance commission 'Disturbing the View' (2021) at the Whitney; the performance collective My Barbarian's twenty anniversary exhibition and catalogue (2021-2022) at the Whitney and ICA Los Angeles; and over 50 interdisciplinary, video, and film commissions. She was part of the Whitney's core team for David Hammons’s public art monument Day’s End. Edwards has taught art history and visual and dance studies at New York University, the New School, and The Graduate Center at CUNY.