Features + Interviews

Dark Study: on Emily Jacir, Forensic Architecture, and fugitive documentary
ART PAPERS: Documentary After Truth, Fall 2024

The Postmodern in Parallax: On “The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Time-Cone” by Raqs Media Collective
MUBI Notebook, July 23, 2024

Tiffany Sia Interviewed by Re’al Christian
BOMB Magazine, July 2024

Slip, Loop, Retreat: On the Architectures of Confinement
MOVEMENTS, Brown Arts Institute, Volume 1: Dissonance, October 2023

Unbecoming Human: Interview with TJ Shin
ART PAPERS: Embodied Knowledge, Fall 2022

Refusing the Here-now: An Afrofuturist Period Room and Black Fugitivity in the Undercommons
ART PAPERS: The New Commons, Summer 2022

Going to the Field: Kevin Quiles Bonilla Interviewed by Re’al Christian
BOMB Magazine, June 2022

The earth leaked red ochre: Artist Conversations
Miriam Gallery, May 2022

A surrogate self, a site of memory: Firelei Báez
Hand Papermaking: Call and Respond, Winter 2021

Between a Body, a City, a Mountain: Sara Jimenez Interviewed by Re’al Christian
BOMB Magazine, November 2021

The Silence We Hold Between Our Bodies: Interview with Kenneth Tam
ART PAPERS: Speculative Masculinities, Summer 2021

Whose Histories Should Be Commemorated?: Kehinde Wiley's Rumors of War
Phillips, June 2021

A Living Presence + and the body, Felix, where is it?, with danilo machado
ART PAPERS: Monumental Interventions, Fall/Winter 2020

E ho’o kama’āina: Kimi Howl Lee’s “Kama’āina (child of the land)”
Big Window, October 2020

Language, Use, Value: Interview with Chang Yuchen
ART PAPERS: Living & Working, Summer 2020

The Moment is Not Sufficient
ART PAPERS: Art of the New Civil Rights Era, Spring 2020

Exhibition + Catalogue Texts

Abigail DeVille in Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (forthcoming)
Monacelli Press / Prospect New Orleans, 2025

Jeffrey Meris: Cosmic Bodies in And ever an edge: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2022–23
Studio Museum in Harlem, 2024

All Visible Directions: Maria Hupfield and Natalie Diaz in Breaking Protocol
Inventory Press + Vera List Center for Art and Politics, November 2023

On Reworlding… in The World Is Before You
Feat. Francisco echo Eraso, Willa Goettling, Maya Jeffereis,
Gabrielle Ondine Mertz, Dario Mohr, and Carrie Sijia Wang
EFA Project Space, August 2023

Essay for the rain from dreams or from breaths, with Sara Jimenez
Rachel Uffner Gallery, 2023

On Becoming in Nested in a Place of Becoming: Adler Guerrier and Levani
Marisa Newman Projects and Kunsthalle Tbilisi, 2022

Surface Tension in Howardena Pindell: Numbers/Pathways/Grids
Exhibition catalogue for Howardena Pindell
Dieu Donné and Garth Greenan Gallery, 2022

Introduction, The earth leaked red ochre
Miriam Gallery, 2022

Essay for Miko Veldkamp: Ghost Stories
Workplace Gallery, London, UK
January 22 – March 6, 2022

Connection of Three Spaces, in Life as Activity: David Lamelas
Edited by Harper Montgomery
Hunter College Art Galleries / Hirmer Verlag, Fall 2021

Back to the Center, in Katia Santibañez: Lumens Anima
DC Moore Gallery
September 9 – October 9, 2021

Contributor, The Black Index
Feat. Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle,
Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas
Edited by Bridget R. Cooks & Sarah Watson
Hunter College Art Galleries / Hirmer Verlag, Summer 2021

An essay for In the Wake
Hunter College MFA Thesis Show
Feat. Simon Benjamin, Mew Filsinger, Rocío Guerrero Marin, Polina Tereshina, and Miko Veldkamp
205 Hudson Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries
May 21 – 29, 2021

Thoughts on a line, in Zipora Fried
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
May 8 – June 12, 2021

POWER/PLAY, in Myeongsoo Kim: Mother-Land
CUE Art Foundation
October 7 – November 3, 2020

Edited Collections

Writing in Relation in Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism
Paper Monument, 2023

On the Town: A Performa Compendium 2016–2021
Essays on Chemical Gilding… by Chou Yu-Cheng, The White Waters by Su Hui-Yu,
and Sènsa by Paul Maheke, Nkisi, and Ariel Efraim Ashbel
Ed. Charles Aubin
Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2022

Robert Rauschenberg’s Sugar Bags (Urban Bourbon), 1993
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation | Hunter College, February 2020

Assumed Identity in the Public Sphere: Causality & Consequences in the 2016 Election
The Dialectics: Journal of Law, Leadership, and Society, Pennsylvania State University, September 2017

Editorial + Curatorial Projects

As for Protocols (co-editor)
Co-edited by Re’al Christian, Carin Kuoni, and Eriola Pira
Amherst College Press / Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2025

Acts of Art in Greenwich Village (editor)
Edited by Re’al Christian, introduction by Howard Singerman
Hunter College Art Galleries / Hirmer Verlag, 2025

Post/doc (editor)
Vera List Center for Art and Politics
2022–Ongoing

In Common: Romare Bearden and New Approaches to Art, Race & Economy (editorial director)
Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School, 2024

Where Is Africa (copy editor)
Edited by Emanuel Admassu and Anita N. Bateman
Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), 2024

Breaking Protocol (managing editor + contributor)
Edited by Maria Hupfield
Inventory Press / Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2023

Exhibition + publication: Repetition means a/void (curator)
Feat. Amra Causevic and Simón Ramirez
Parent Company, New York
June 22 – July 29, 2023

Sara Jimenez: Fevered Tropics (curatorial consultant)
Morgan Lehman Gallery
November 17, 2022 – January 7, 2023

Steven Anthony Johnson II: Getting Blood from Stone (curator)
International Studies & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
June 10 – August 19, 2022

Unraveling Words: A Reading Program for The earth leaked red ochre (curator)
Feat. Le’Andra LeSeur, danilo machado, and TK Smith
Miriam Gallery, May 14, 2022

Exhibition + publication: The earth leaked red ochre (curator + editor)
Feat. Lara Atallah, Simon Benjamin, Sara Jimenez,
Corinne Jones, and Levani (Levan Mindiashvili)
Miriam Gallery
April 14 – June 12, 2022

Exhibition + publication: The Black Index (curatorial fellow + proofreader)
Traveling exhibition feat. Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry,
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas
Curated by Bridget R. Cooks and presented at Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery,
Hunter College Art Galleries in collaboration with Sarah Watson and Re’al Christian
February 1 – April 3, 2022

Exhibition + publication: Life as Activity: David Lamelas (curatorial fellow + copy editor)
Curated by Harper Montgomery with Sarah Watson and Re’al Christian
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries
November 3 – December 18, 2021

In the Wake (curatorial consultant)
Hunter College MFA Thesis Show
Feat. Simon Benjamin, Rocío Guerrero Marin,
Polina Tereshina, Miko Veldkamp, and Matthew Weiderspon
205 Hudson Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries
May 21 – 29, 2021

Inside the Workspace (curator)
Conversation series
Dieu Donné
Winter 2020

Public Programs

Anna Martine Whitehead: FORCE! an opera in three acts
Feat. Anna Martine Whitehead and Re’al Christian
Brooklyn Rail, online, November 18, 2024

(Dis)Continuity, Grief, and the Everyday: The function of image and text in Adam Golfer’s Kaddish
Bungee Space, New York, July 11, 2024

Revisiting Studies into Darkness: Conversations on Freedom of Speech (series co-organizer)
Feat. Jill H. Casid, Ayanna Dozier, Emily Jacir, Maya Jeffereis, Amar Kanwar, Michael Rakowitz, and Rattanamol Singh Johal
Brooklyn Rail in partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, online, February 22–May 29, 2024

Social Movement Histories in Practice: Oral History, Political Education, & Art
Feat. Alicia Grullón, Mark Loughney, and Betty Yu
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, April 12, 2024

Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak
Feat. Raven Chacon, Alison Coplan, and Re’al Christian in conversation
Brooklyn Rail, online, April 8, 2024

Book launch for Kaddish by Adam Golfer
Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, April 2, 2024

Off Script (co-organizer)
Feat. Maria Hupfield, Peter Morin, Michael Nardone, Skeena Reece, Dylan Robinson, Charlene Vickers with Claudia Fernandez, Shelly Rosenblum, and Re’al Christian
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery + Vera List Center for Art and Politics, March 2, 2024

MOVEMENTS: A Community JAM (in conversation with danilo machado)
Brown Arts Institute, October 27, 2023

Track Changes: A Launch Event
n+1, August 14, 2023

Libraries in Practice: Tending Toward Liberation (organizer + moderator)
Feat. BlackMass Publishing, the Pilipinx American Library, and
Contemporary And/C& Center of Unfinished Business
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, May 18, 2023

A Reading and Conversation with Helen Cammock and Re'al Christian
Center for Art, Research and Alliances, March 31, 2023

Screening & Conversation: Ayanna Dozier, Ilana Harris-Babou, Buzz Slutzky, moderated by Re’al Christian
BRIC, March 15, 2023

The Poetics of Criticism: Black femme critics in conversation
Feat. Darla Migan, Jessica Lynne, Ayanna Dozier, Re’al Christian, Erica N. Cardwell, and Lee Ann Norman
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, December 16, 2022

Gi (Ginny) Huo in Conversation with Re’al Christian
Baxter St at CCNY, November 16, 2022

Breaking Protocol: Conversation with Maria Hupfield
Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference, October 15, 2022

Studies into Darkness: Editors and Artists in Conversations (organizer + moderator)
Vancouver Art Book Fair, October 13, 2022

Re’al Christian & Maxwell Paparella in Conversation
ART PAPERS, Instagram Live, October 6, 2022

Visiting Critics Vienna 2022: A Different Point of View
Verein K, September 27, 2022

Steven Anthony Johnson II in Conversation with Re’al Christian and TK Smith
International Studies & Curatorial Program (ISCP), August 16, 2022

Mark-Making Between the Imaginative and the Political
Feat. Sharon Norwood, Petrina Dacres, Steven Anthony Johnson II,
Re’al Christian, and Oneika Russell in conversation
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), May 20, 2022

Sara Jimenez: Online Panel Discussion with Re’al Christian, PJ Policarpio, and Crystal Z Campbell
Smack Mellon, December 17, 2021

ART PAPERS Live: Re’al Christian & Jason Lipeles in Conversation
ART PAPERS, Instagram Live, August 26, 2021

The Black Index: Publication Launch
Hunter College Art Galleries & Palo Alto Art Center, June 18, 2021

CARE LAB Part II: Access in New Time (transcript)
Rubin Foundation, March 11, 2021

ART PAPERS Live: Re'al Christian & danilo machado in Conversation
ART PAPERS, Instagram Live, March 12, 2021

Inside the Workspace: Saya Woolfalk & Jean Shin (organizer)
Dieu Donné, December 16, 2020

Inside the Workspace: Natalie Frank (organizer)
Dieu Donné, November 18, 2020

Inside the Workspace: Nancy Cohen & Mina Takahashi (organizer)
Dieu Donné, October 7, 2020

ART PAPERS Live: Re’al Christian & TK Smith in Conversation
ART PAPERS, Instagram Live, June 18, 2020