Re'al Christian is a writer, critic, editor, and art historian based in New York. In her practice, she examines material histories of diasporas. Her work explores issues related to identity, media, language, and ecology. Her criticism, essays, and interviews have appeared in BOMB Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, 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 editorial projects include Maria Hupfield’s artist book Breaking Protocol (2023), the digital publishing series Post/doc (2022–present), and Acts of Art in Greenwich Village (2025). She is the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology As for Protocols (2025). 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).

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.