Ep.240 Rujeko Hockley is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Her current project at the Whitney is Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Other projects include 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, she 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 contemporary artists. 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.
Photograph by Jody Rogac
Whitney Museum
~ https://whitney.org/2019-biennial-curators
~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald
~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald-four-ways-of-being
~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/inheritance
~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2-lizards
~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/jennifer-packer
~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/julie-mehretu
~ https://whitney.org/press/protest
~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/toyin-ojih-odutola
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Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/when-i-call-who-listens-rujeko-hockley-excerpt-for-freedoms/#
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M.M.Lafleur https://mdash.mmlafleur.com/most-remarkable-woman-rujeko-hockley/
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CCL https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-smh-curators-forum/rujeko-hockley/
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