Organizer: School of Art
Venue: Center for Creative Photography
Start Time: 5:30pm

Whitney Museum curator Rujeko Hockley will speak about her work in a Visiting Artists & Scholars Endowment (VASE) lecture at the Center for Creative Photography from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The free talk is sponsored by the Racial Justice Studio, along with the School of Art and CCP.

Rujeko Hockley

Hockley, who was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, and relocated with her family to Washington, D.C., at age 2, is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial.

Additional projects at the Whitney include “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” (forthcoming), “Inheritance” (2023), “2 Lizards” (2022), Jennifer Packer: “The Eye Is Not Satisfied with Seeing” (2021), Julie Mehretu (2021), Toyin Ojih Odutola: “To Wander Determined” (2017) and “An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017” (2017).

Previously, Hockley was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she co-curated Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (2014) and was involved in exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection as well as artists LaToya Ruby Frazier, Kehinde Wiley and others. She is the co-curator of “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women,” 1965-85 (2017), which originated at the Brooklyn Museum and travelled to three U.S. venues in 2017-18. She serves on the Boards of Art Matters, Institute for Freedoms and Museums Moving Forward, as well as the Advisory Board of Recess.

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