Robyn Farrell

Robyn Farrell is senior curator at the Kitchen, New York. Previously she spent nearly 12 years at the Art Institute of Chicago, most recently as associate curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. There she served on the curatorial teams for Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race! (2013), Frances Stark: Intimism (2015), Kemang Wa Lehulere: In All My Wildest Dreams (2016), and Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again (2019), and organized projects with Andrea Fraser (2016), Rodney McMillian (2017), Martine Syms (2018), Cauleen Smith (2018), Naeem Mohaiemen (co-curated with Hendrik Folkerts, 2019), Gregg Bordowitz (co-curated with Solveig Nelson, 2019), and Barbara Kruger (co-curated with James Rondeau, 2021).

Robyn’s research interests include conceptual art and the moving image, emerging disciplines of media art, artist networks, and the history of exhibition and distribution of film and video. She has been a visiting lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a moderator for the Screen to Screen series at the Gene Siskel Film Center, and served as co-editor (with Delinda Collier) of the first issue of the museum’s three-volume Perspectives series, a digital publication.

Robyn earned her master’s degree in art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.