Re’al Christian
Re’al Christian (MA, Hunter College; BS, New York University) is the Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives at the Vera List Center, where she edits and manages the center’s publishing projects, including anthologies, artist books, exhibition booklets, communications, and the digital series Post/doc.
As an independent writer, her work explores issues related to diasporas, movement, language, and ecology. Her essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, and ART PAPERS, where she is a Contributing Editor. She has written texts for catalogues and anthologies including And ever an edge (Studio Museum in Harlem), Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism (Paper Monument), Howardena Pindell: Numbers/Pathways/Grids (Garth Greenan and Dieu Donné), and On the Town: A Performa Compendium 2016–2021 (Gregory R. Miller & Co.), among others. She has presented exhibitions and public programs at CARA, Dieu Donné, Miriam Gallery, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Library Residency (Athens), the Rubin Foundation, Smack Mellon, and Verein K (Vienna/Graz). Previously, she was a graduate curatorial fellow at the Hunter College Art Galleries, where she worked on the exhibitions The Black Index (2020–21) and Life as Activity: David Lamelas (2021), as well as their accompanying publications. Christian has also held appointments at the College Art Association, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Association of Art Museum Curators, and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.
She received her MA in Art History from Hunter College and holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University.