Episode 240

Photograph by Jody Rogac

Ep.240 Rujeko Hockley is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Her current project at the Whitney is Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Other projects include Inheritance (2023), 2 Lizards (2022), Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing (2021), Julie Mehretu (2021), Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined (2017) and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017 (2017).

Previously, she was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she co-curated Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (2014) and was involved in exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection as well as contemporary artists. She is the co-curator of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 (2017), which originated at the Brooklyn Museum and travelled to three U.S. venues in 2017-18. She serves on the Boards of Art Matters, Institute For Freedoms, and Museums Moving Forward, as well as the Advisory Board of Recess.

Whitney Museum

~ https://whitney.org/2019-biennial-curators

~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald

~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald-four-ways-of-being

~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/inheritance

~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2-lizards

~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/jennifer-packer

~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/julie-mehretu

~ https://whitney.org/press/protest

~ https://whitney.org/exhibitions/toyin-ojih-odutola

Time Magazine https://time.com/7210625/rujeko-hockley-hank-willis-thomas-art-inclusivity/

Observer https://observer.com/2025/04/exhibition-amy-sherald-american-sublime-whitney-dinner-opening-party/