Karen Archey

Karen Archey is an American art critic and curator based in New York City and Amsterdam. She is the Curator of Contemporary Art and Time-Based Media at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the former editor of e-flux.

Archey regularly speaks on issues related to contemporary art, feminism, and technology at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. She has written for publications such as Art in America, ArtReview, frieze, and Spike Art Quarterly, and she has contributed essays to publications of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

Biography Archey received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual and Critical Studies in 2008 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Archey was the Curator-in-Residence at the Abrons Arts Center in New York from 2012 to 2013. She also served as the Editor-at-Large of Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

In 2014 in Beijing, Archey co-curated the survey exhibition Art Post-Internet at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art with Robin Peckham and edited the freely available publication Art Post-internet: Information/Data. Trevor Smith of Hyperallergic wrote that Archey and Peckham's exhibition and catalog "solidified the term “post-internet art” in our vocabulary". Archey and Peckham describe Internet art as: "post-Internet refers not to a time ‘after’ the Internet but rather to an Internet state of mind — to think in the fashion of the network.” They go on to write in the catalogue:

Archey joined e-flux in 2014. While editor at e-flux, she began the web publishing platform Conversations.

In 2017, Archey was appointed the Curator of Contemporary Art for Time-Based Media of Stedelijk Museum.

Exhibitions

Images Rendered Bare. Vacant. Recognizable, Stadium, New York City, 2012 Bcc #7, Stadium, New York City, 2012 Deleuze & Co., Stadium, New York City, 2012 How to Eclipse the Light, Wilkinson, London, 2012 Deep Spaces (Insides), Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York City, 2012 Harm van den Dorpel, Abrons Art Center, New York City, 2013 Hymns for Mr. Suzuki, Abrons Art Center, New York City, 2013 Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2014 Sharing Love, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, 2016 "Hyper-Elasticity Symptoms, Signs Treatment: On Hito Steyerl's Liquidity Inc." within Too Much World: The Films of Hito Steyerl, edited by Nick Aikens; Sternberg Press, Van Abbemuseum and Institute of Modern Art, 2014 Art Post-Internet: Information/Data, edited with Robin Peckham, 2014