Vivian Crockett

Vivian Crockett is the Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum. Since joining the Museum, Crockett has curated exhibitions by KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), Wangechi Mutu, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), and a video project with Zahy Tentehar (previously k.a. Zahy Guajajara). Together with Isabella Rjeille, Crockett is co-curating the 2026 New Museum Triennial. Previously, she was the Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, where she curated solo projects with Guadalupe Rosales (2021-23) and Jammie Holmes (2020), developed Ja’Tovia Gary: I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD (2023), and co-curated Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia, two permanent collection exhibitions, and a presentation of Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death. She was also a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and an Andrew W. Mellon Museum Research Consortium Fellow in the department of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art. She has worked as a research associate at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and as an independent curator with organizations including Visual AIDS, for whom she co-curated the 2017 Day With(out) Art: Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings. Crockett holds a BA in art history from Stanford University and a PhD in art history from Columbia University.