Karen Archey
American curator and art historian
Karen Archey is an American art critic and curator based in New York City and Amsterdam. She is the Curator of Contemporary Art and Time-Based Media at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the former editor of e-flux.
Archey regularly speaks on issues related to contemporary art, feminism, and technology at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. She has written for publications such as Art in America, ArtReview, frieze, and Spike Art Quarterly, and she has contributed essays to publications of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Biography
Archey received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual and Critical Studies in 2008 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Archey was the Curator-in-Residence at the Abrons Arts Center in New York from 2012 to 2013. She also served as the Editor-at-Large of Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. She contributed the essay Bodies in Space: Gender and Sexuality in the Online Public Sphere to the 2015 publication Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, co-published by the MIT Press and New Museum as part of the series Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture.
In 2014 in Beijing, Archey co-curated the survey exhibition Art Post-Internet at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art with Robin Peckham and edited the freely available publication Art Post-internet: Information/Data. Trevor Smith of Hyperallergic wrote that Archey and Peckham's exhibition and catalog "solidified the term “post-internet art” in our vocabulary".
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