Robin Farrell has been appointed senior curator at New York nonprofit The Kitchen. Farrell, who will take up his new position on August 1, came to the institution from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) as associate curator of its modern and contemporary art department. She arrived in the kitchen while her Chelsea mansion was being renovated for many years and began her stint at Westbeth’s makeshift mansion in the West Village. As senior curator, Pharrell will be involved in all aspects of the kitchen’s programming.
“We are thrilled to welcome Robin Farrell to The Kitchen,” Legacy Russell, the group’s CEO and chief curator, said in a statement. “Robin shares the institution’s expanded mission, values and dynamic commitment to its future vision. In her commitment to avant-garde history, time-based media and interdisciplinary exhibition production, brings an exciting and unique perspective to the field, and we look forward to welcoming her as we push the entire kitchen community to new heights.”
Farrell, an internationally recognized scholar on the work of German film director and video art pioneer Jerry Shum, joined AIC in 2013 as Assistant Curator and in 2017 became Assistant Curator and Promoted to Associate Curator in 2020. Keman Wa Lefrere: In My Wildest Dreams, the first American institutional exhibition to bring together the work of the Cape Town native, and Andy Warhol—A to B, which toured from Cape Town. He has been involved in more than 40 exhibitions, including “To and Again”. Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Similarly, she has helped organize solo exhibitions by Gretchen Bender, Moira Davey, Colleen Smith, Martin Sims, Hito Steyeer, and others, and has worked on the AIC iteration of Barbara Kruger’s THINKING OF YOU. . I mean me I mean you and “Greg Baldowitz: I Want To Be Well”.
“I am thrilled to join the kitchen at this special moment in the history of this organization,” Farrell said in a statement, adding that the organization’s “unparalleled heritage and artist-driven media, process and dialogue.” Acceptance is consistent with my own commitment.” An interdisciplinary partnership that bridges discourse and exhibition, transcending notions of time and place. I enjoy advancing the kitchen’s groundbreaking programs and important missions in support of contemporary urgent voices, risk-taking experiments, impactful comprehensive exhibitions, live events and publications. to ”
