Art21

Tina Kukielski joined Art21 after more than thirteen years as a contemporary art curator. Kukielski is a contributor to Artforum, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, and the 2015 anthology on digital art, Mass Effect: Internet Art in the 21st Century. She has been a visiting critic at Columbia, Yale, Princeton, and Carnegie Mellon, and has taught courses in the MFA programs at Parsons School of Design and the University of Hartford. Kukielski has given talks at cities around the world. Tina Kukielski was appointed as Executive Director by the Art21 Board of Trustees in January 2016 to succeed Susan Sollins, who founded and led the organization for seventeen years.

Having worked at Art21 since 2006, Nick Ravich is currently the organization’s Director of Video Programming & Production, serving as series producer for the Peabody Award-winning PBS broadcast series Art in the Twenty-First Century and the Webby-nominated digital shorts series New York Close Up, which he also co-created. As a director, series producer, and consulting producer for Art21, Nick has been directly involved in the production of 300 (and counting) digital shorts which have been screened over 125 times at over 70 film festivals across the world—including BlackStar, DOC NYC, Full Frame, and Newfest—and have been honored multiple Vimeo Staff Picks.

Jurrell Lewis is an artist and curator, who joined Art21 in November 2020 and is currently the Assistant Curator. Prior to joining Art21, Jurrell completed his Master of Fine Arts from Northwestern University’s Art, Theory, Practice Department and worked as an artist, administrator, and writer in Chicago, IL. Jurrell has taught courses on contemporary art, curated artist-centered programming, exhibited work in the United States and Europe, and most recently co-directed and performed in a production of The Measures Taken, written by Bertolt Brecht. Jurrell holds BAs in Fundamentals: Issues and Texts and Visual Arts from the University of Chicago and an MFA from Northwestern University.

Eleanor Heartney has been writing about art since 1981. She is a longtime contributor to Art in America, Contributing Editor to Artpress, Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail, and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for Artnews, Artnet, Art and Auction, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Heartney was the 1992 recipient of the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism and was honored in 2008 by the French government as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her most recent book is the co-authored Mothers of Invention: the Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art.