Re'al Christian is a writer, editor, and art historian based in Queens, NY. Her work explores issues related to identity, diasporas, ecology, media, and materiality. Her essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, and ART PAPERS, where she is a Contributing Editor. She has written texts for catalogues and anthologies including And ever an edge (Studio Museum in Harlem), Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism (Paper Monument), Howardena Pindell: Numbers/Pathways/Grids (Garth Greenan and Dieu Donné), On the Town: A Performa Compendium 2016–2021 (Gregory R. Miller & Co.), Zipora Fried (Sikkema Jenkins & Co.), Katia Santibañez: Lumens Anima (DC Moore), and Myeongsoo Kim: Mother-Land (CUE Art Foundation).

Her curatorial projects include The Black Index (2020–22) and Life as Activity: David Lamelas (2021), which she worked on as a graduate curatorial fellow at the Hunter College Art Galleries, as well as The earth leaked red ochre (2022) at Miriam Gallery, for which she edited an accompanying catalogue; Steven Anthony Johnson II: Getting Blood from Stone at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (2022); and Repetition means a/void at Parent Company (2023). She is currently the Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, where her editorial projects include Maria Hupfield: Breaking Protocol and the digital publishing series Post/doc, among numerous other print and digital publications.

Christian received her MA in Art History from Hunter College. She holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University, where she double majored in Art History and Media, Culture, and Communication.