12 Facts About Legacy Russell

Legacy Russell is an American curator, writer, and author of Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, published by Verso Books in 2020.

Legacy Russell was born in New York City and grew up in the East Village.

Legacy Russell is the daughter of Harlem-born photographer and technologist Ernest Russell and Kamala Mottl, a community gerontologist.

Legacy Russell is the great-granddaughter of Nolle Smith, Black cowboy, engineer, and Hawaii statesman.

Legacy Russell attended Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan.

Legacy Russell worked at the online platform Artsy, expanding the company's gallery relations across Europe.

Legacy Russell has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and CREATIVE TIME.

Legacy Russell writes about art, gender, race, and technology, particularly as they intersect with histories of cyberculture.

In 2012, Legacy Russell coined the term "Glitch Feminism", which Legacy Russell says "embod[ies] error as a disruption to gender binary, as a resistance to the normative".

Legacy Russell has curated exhibitions and projects at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Performa's Radical Broadcast, Kunsthall Stavanger in Norway, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Legacy Russell was associate curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 2018 to 2021.

In 2021, The Kitchen announced that Legacy Russell would succeed Tim Griffin as the institution's next executive director and chief curator; she is the first Black person to hold the position of executive director and chief curator at The Kitchen since its founding in 1971.