Vivian Crockett

Vivian Crockett is the Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum, currently co-curating the forthcoming New Museum Triennial together with Isabella Rjeille. Since joining the Museum, Crockett has curated exhibitions by Wangechi Mutu, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), and Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), and a video project with Zahy Tentehar (previously k.a. Zahy Guajajara). 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 an MA and PhD in art history from Columbia University.