Adrienne Edwards
Adrienne Edwards is a New York-based curator, scholar, and writer. Edwards is currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Career. Curating. Edwards curated performance commissions at Performa from 2010 to 2018. Prior to moving to the Whitney in 2018, Edwards worked as curator at large at the Walker Art Center 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: "Jason Moran", the first museum survey devoted to the MacArthur-winning pianist and conceptualist. Whitney Biennial 2021. In October 2019, the Whitney Museum announced that Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin would curate the 2021 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. In 2022, Edwards chaired the jury of the Venice Biennale.