Whitney Museum curator Rujeko Hockley will speak about her work in a Visiting Artists & Scholars Endowment (VASE) lecture at the Center for Creative Photography on Monday, Feb. 17, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The free talk is co-sponsored by the Racial Justice Studio.

Hockley, who was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, and relocated with her family to Washington, D.C., at age 2, is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial.

Her other Whitney projects include “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” (April 2025), “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).

Read this Q&A: “Rujeko Hockley – The Most Curious Woman in the World”