Adrienne Edwards,
2025

Adrienne Edwards is the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she co-organized the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It’s Kept, with David Breslin. Her work has long considered how performance can shape—and unshape—the language of exhibitions. Before arriving at the Whitney in 2018, Edwards moved between institutions and disciplines, serving as curator-at-large at the Walker Art Center and, for nearly a decade, as a curator at Performa, where she commissioned new works that treated time as both subject and material. In 2016, she curated Blackness in Abstraction at Pace Gallery, a show that asked what form Blackness takes when it refuses to explain itself.

Her writing has appeared in Art in America, Aperture, and Parkett, though it often lives in conversation—in the space between artists and institutions, history and now. In 2022, she was named President of the International Jury for the 59th Venice Biennale, a role that underscored her influence beyond the U.S. context.

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