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 alongside her work at online platform Artsy expanding the company's gallery relations across Europe.[3] Prior to Artsy she held roles at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,[4] The Whitney Museum of American Art,[4] Creative Time,[4] and The Brooklyn Museum.[4] She is a contributing editor at BOMB Magazine.[3] In 2019, The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation awarded Russell the Arts Writing Award in Digital Arts; in tandem with this award Russell also earned a spot as a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency fellow.[5] In 2012, Russell coined the term 'Glitch Feminism' which, as Russell has defined it, "embod[ies] error as a disruption to gender binary, as a resistance to the normative".[6] Glitch Feminism is the subject of her first book Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto published in September 2020 from Verso Books.[2][6] Glitch Feminism was heralded as one of the "best art books of 2020" by The New York Times, "spellbinding" by Artforum,[7] and a "groundbreaking text" by Forbes.[8] Her second book, titled BLACK MEME, "explores the impact of Blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality borne in the age of the Internet." BLACK MEME was awarded a Creative Capital Award for 2021 and is forthcoming via Verso Books.[9]

Legacy Russell

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.[10] She attended Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan.[11] 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.[4] Russell has an MRes in Art History & Visual Culture with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London.[11][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.[12]

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.[11] Russell has curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,[13] MoMA PS1,[14] Institute of Contemporary Art, London,[15] and The Studio Museum in Harlem.[16]

References
  1. Editorial, Artsy (2020-02-20). "4 Curators on the Artists They're Celebrating This Black History Month". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  2. "Artforum.com". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  3. Armstrong, Annie (2018-08-09). "Studio Museum in Harlem Names Legacy Russell Associate Curator". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  4. "Legacy Russell - LinkedIn".
  5. "Legacy Russell wins 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Arts". Contemporary And (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  6. Lavender, Pandora. "7 Questions: Legacy Russell". Frieze. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  7. "Johanna Fateman's top ten highlights of 2020". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  8. Damiani, Jesse. "On Embodying The Ecstatic And Catastrophic Error Of Glitch Feminism: Book Review". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  9. "BLACK MEME". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  10. Gugliotta, Bobette (1971). "Nolle Smith: Cowboy, Engineer, Statesman".
  11. "Legacy Russell on Glitch Feminism, Curating and the Upside of Growing Up in New York". Cultured Magazine. 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  12. "Prayer? Or Practice? Social Shrines and the Ritualized Performance of Reality in Contemporary Art". Academia.edu.
  13. "Answering the Colonizers of Modernism". Hyperallergic. 2019-11-02. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  14. "Best of 2019: Our Top NYC Art Shows". Hyperallergic. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  15. "Next: 28 Art Curators to Watch Who Took on New Appointments in 2018". Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  16. Mitter, Siddhartha (2019-07-10). "Studio Museum in Harlem Names Artists in Residence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
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