Legacy Russell
Legacy Russell is an American curator and writer. She is associate curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem.[1][2] Previous to this role Russell worked as an independent curator at Artsy.[citation needed] She has held roles at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,[3] The Whitney Museum of American Art,[3] Creative Time,[3] and The Brooklyn Museum.[citation needed][3] She is a contributing editor at BOMB Magazine.[4] In 2019, The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation awarded Russell the Arts Writing Award in Digital Arts.[5] In 2012, Russell coined the term Glitch Feminism which is the subject of her first book Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto set to be published in September 2020 from Verso Books.[2][6]
Early life and education
Russell was born in New York City and grew up in the East Village. She is the daughter of Harlem-born photographer and technologist Ernest Russell and Kamala Mottl, a community gerontologist. She is the great-granddaughter of Nolle Smith, black cowboy, engineer, and Hawaii statesman.[citation needed] She attended Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan.[7] Russell holds a dual-major Honors B.A. from Macalester College in Studio Art & Art History and English & Creative Writing (focus on poetry) with a minor in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.[citation needed] Russell has an MRes in Art History & Visual Culture with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London.[7][5] Her graduate dissertation focused on the notion of “re-performing reality” and shared research on artists such as Devin Kenny, Ann Hirsch, Awol Erizku.[citation needed]
Curating and Academic Research
Russell’s curatorial and academic work focuses on queer histories, blackness in visual culture, Internet culture, feminism, new media, moving image, performance, and digital art practice. As a curator she has done extensive work around her originating concept of Glitch Feminism.[7] Russell has curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,[8] MoMA PS1,[9] Institute of Contemporary Art, London,[10] and The Studio Museum in Harlem.[11]
References
- ^ Editorial, Artsy (2020-02-20). "4 Curators on the Artists They're Celebrating This Black History Month". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ a b "Artforum.com". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ a b c d "Legacy Russell - LinkedIn".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Armstrong, Annie; Armstrong, Annie (2018-08-09). "Studio Museum in Harlem Names Legacy Russell Associate Curator". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ a b "Legacy Russell wins 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Arts". Contemporary And (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ Lavender, Pandora. "7 Questions: Legacy Russell". Frieze. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
- ^ a b c "Legacy Russell on Glitch Feminism, Curating and the Upside of Growing Up in New York". Cultured Magazine. 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ "Answering the Colonizers of Modernism". Hyperallergic. 2019-11-02. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ "Best of 2019: Our Top NYC Art Shows". Hyperallergic. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ "Next: 28 Art Curators to Watch Who Took on New Appointments in 2018". Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ Mitter, Siddhartha (2019-07-10). "Studio Museum in Harlem Names Artists in Residence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-17.