CCS BARD

Lauren Cornell is the Director of the Graduate Program and Chief Curator at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. At the Hessel Museum, Cornell has organized monographic surveys with artists Erika Verzutti, Sky Hopinka, Martine Syms, Dara Birnbaum (her first retrospective in the US), Leidy Churchman, Daniel Steegmann Mangrane, and Nil Yalter (co-organized with the Museum Ludwig, Cologne) as well as the group exhibition Invisible Adversaries (2016) with Tom Eccles and numerous public programs engaged with the graduate program and College. In fall 2019, she co-curated Phantom Plane: Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future at Tai Kwun Contemporary in partnership with CCS Bard. Previously, Cornell was the Curator and Associate Director of Technology Initiatives at the New Museum. She curated the 2015 New Museum Triennial, with artist Ryan Trecartin, and the 2009 New Museum Triennial, with Massimiliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman. At the New Museum, she also curated Beatriz Santiago Munoz: Song, Strategy, Sign, with Johanna Burton and Sara O’Keeffe (2016); Walking, Drifting, Dragging (2013); and Free (2010); and organized over fifty performances, screenings, and conversations and commissioned over one hundred works in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, painting, photography, installation, and video, as well as browser-based work and virtual reality. From 2005–2012, Cornell served as Executive Director of Rhizome, an organization that commissions, exhibits, and preserves art engaged with technology. While at Rhizome, she founded the annual conference Seven on Seven, in 2010, and, cofounded Open Score, an annual forum exploring issues in art and technology, in 2016. From 2002–2004, she served as executive director of Ocularis, a cinema in Brooklyn. She is a coeditor, with Ed Halter, of Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century (New Museum and MIT Press, 2015), and has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and art magazines, including ArtReview, Aperture, Frieze, Mousse, North Drive Press, and the Paris Review. Cornell is the recipient of ArtTable’s 2017 New Leadership Award.