Robyn Farrell

Robyn Farrell is Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Kitchen in New York where she oversees the exhibition, performance, and publication program. Recent programs and exhibitions include Desire Inc. (2024) with Lynn Hershman Leeson and Patricia Domínguez, Tres Lunas Mas Abajo (Three Moons Below) (2024) as part of The Kitchen's Video Viewing (VVR) Program, The Kitchen in Focus: Sheryl Sutton at 47 Canal (2024), and Lisa Alvarado: Shape of Artifact Time (2025). Her research interests include conceptual art and the moving image, emerging disciplines of time-based art, artist networks, and the history of exhibition and distribution of film and video. Farrell is an internationally recognized scholar on the work of German filmmaker and video art pioneer Gerry Schum, including his landmark art on television broadcasts such as Land Art (1969). Prior to The Kitchen, Farrell was Associate Curator in the department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Farrell was on the curatorial teams for over fifty projects including the reinstallation of the Contemporary Galleries in the museum’s Modern Wing in 2015. She curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions during her tenure in Chicago, including the 2021 exhibition with Barbara Kruger, THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU, the Chicago presentation of Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well (2019), Christine Sun Kim: Cues on Point (2023), and Maren Hassinger: This Is How We Grow (2023). Farrell has contributed to numerous publications and artist monographs, has spoken widely on contemporary and time-based media, and is an internationally recognized scholar on the work of German filmmaker and video art pioneer Gerry Schum, including his landmark art on television broadcasts such as Land Art (1969). Farrell holds an MA in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has served as a visiting lecturer and moderator for the Gene Siskel Film Center.