Adrienne Edwards
The Whitney Museum in New York has appointed Performance Studies Ph.D. student Adrienne Edwards as its Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance. She will start at the Whitney this May.
Edwards is well-known for her work with Performa, where she has helped curate performance commissions since 2010. At the New York–based biennial, she has organized various thematic presentations, including last year’s “Afroglossia,” which focused on African performance art and featured new works by Teju Cole, Wangechi Mutu, and Tracey Rose, and she has helped engineer partnerships with New York institutions such as the Anthology Film Archives, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.