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Vivian Crockett is a Brazilian-American scholar and curator whose work focuses primarily on modern and contemporary art from African diasporas, Latinx communities, and the Americas, and on the intersections of race, gender, and queer theory. She is currently a Curator at the New Museum and is co-curating the 2026 edition of the New Museum Triennial. At the New Museum, she co-curated the historic retrospective of Wangechi Mutu and curated solo exhibitions by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), King Cobra (formerly Doreen Lynette Garner), and Zahy Tentehar (formerly Zahy Guajajara). Before joining the New Museum, Crockett was the Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum, the Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Andrew W. Mellon Museum Research Consortium Fellow in the Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art. She holds a BA in Art History from Stanford University and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in Art History from Columbia University.