The Miami Rail’s 19th visiting writer was Rujeko Hockley, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum. Rujeko came to Miami and led a lecture about her upcoming exhibition – We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-1985. The lecture took place at the ArtCenter/South Florida’s downtown location.

Miami Rail publisher, Nina Johnson-Milewski, had a brief conversation with Rujeko just prior to her lecture, providing us with the opportunity to learn more about this up-and-coming curator.

Rujeko’s interests include modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on conceptual and other avant-garde practices, social movements, and the African diaspora. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the visual arts department at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, Hockley worked as curatorial assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem. She has also organized exhibitions and programs at various independent spaces in San Diego and New York, and has written broadly on contemporary art. She received her B.A. in Art History from Columbia University.