Curry J. Hackett is a transdisciplinary designer, visual artist, and educator exploring Black relationships to land, media, and memory. A Farmville, Virginia native, his work works across scales and mediums to speculate on the aesthetics and ecologies of the American South. Hackett’s work and ideas have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Metropolis, among others. Notably, his installation So That You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia, is currently on view in the “Making Home”—Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Hackett holds architecture degrees from Howard University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and has taught architecture at City College of New York, the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, and Howard University, among other visiting roles.