Janina Piper Marshall

Piper Marshall is a Ph.D candidate studying modern and contemporary art, working at the interstices of media, cinema studies, and art history. She has organized more than thirty exhibitions and performances by artists, including Madeline Hollander, Angela Bulloch, Ericka Beckman and Nina Chanel Abney. Most recently, Marshall curated the group exhibition Growing Sideways at the Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University in New York. She has been involved in the production of exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, New York where she served on the curatorial team for Signals: How Video Transformed the World organized by Stuart Comer and Michelle Kuo and as a Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow, collaborating on Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning, organized by Ana Janevski. From 2013-2018 she held the position of independent curator at Mary Boone Gallery, where she ideated and actioned a strategic plan that enlivened the gallery's history.  She teaches a visual arts seminar at Barnard College. Her current book project is a minor history centered on filmmaker Ericka Beckman, which unsettles the boundaries between contemporary art and cinema studies forged in the late 1970s.