Amanda B. Parmer

Amanda B. Parmer’s work considers the ways that radical pedagogy shows up in institutions through aesthetic practices and communities. In 2014 she inaugurated parmer projects— a space for exhibitions, programming and writing that focuses on queer, feminist strategies and post-colonial analysis. From 2018-2019 she worked as the Director of Programs at Independent Curators International and previously served as the inaugural Curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

She has presented exhibitions, programs and events for The Kitchen, e-flux, the New School, The New York Armory, and Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn and Berlin. She has held residencies with the Abrons Art Center in New York, the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway, and the Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture at Northwestern University. Additionally, she has completed numerous fellowships including the Whitney Museum of American Art Helena Rubenstein Curatorial Fellowship, the Bennett-Polonsky Humanities Lab Fellowship, the Danish Arts Council International Research Programme Fellowship, and Leboff Fellowship.

She has contributed catalog essays for many organizations including CUE Art Foundation, Brandts Museum of Photographic Art, Fotografisk Center, Independent Curators International, and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is a contributing writer for Art in America, art&education, Artforum and BOMB Magazine. And she has co-edited several publications, amongst them: Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art (Yale University Press, 2011); Art, an Index to (see also Politics): 25 Years of Vera List Center Fellowships (2018); and Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe (Independent Curators International, 2019).

 
As an educator and learner within museums and universities she has organized the New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collection of Ideas and taught as a lecturer at The New School and Rhode Island School of Design. She is a 2023-24 McKnight Fellowship Visiting Critic and Core Faculty for the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. At NYU she is the lead professor for “The Culture Industries” and “Cultural Capital: Media & Arts NYC.” At Yale she teaches an introductory theory seminar focusing on pedagogy and advises students as a Visiting Critic in the Painting and Printmaking MFA.