Join us for this three way conversation and discussion in collaboration with NCAD
Free, come along on the day subject to availability.
In Conversation
Monday 23 February 2026, 11am
Location: Philip Treacy Rm, NCAD, Thomas St, D8
We are delighted to welcome art curator Vivian Crockett, New Museum Curator for this In Conversation presented in collaboration with Ireland Invites, Dr Francis Halsall, Lecturer; (Co) Director: Masters Programs: Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD, Vaari Claffey, Independent curator. This In Conversation is organised in tandem with HLG’s offsite Explore & Learn citywide programme.
This 30mins in-conversation between Vivian Crockett, Francis Halsall and Vaari Claffey will discuss among other things the role of production in Vivian’s research and practice, the history of the New Museum and Crockett’s research and curatorial approach to the Sixth New Museum Triennial (2026), co-curated with Isabella Rjelle, Curator at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP). The conversation is being recorded for a new podcast series being launched by NCAD and TBGS and will be subsequently available to listen to here: https://producingstrategies.transistor.fm/
About Vivian Crockett
Vivian Crockett is a New Museum curator and Brazilian-American scholar focusing largely on modern and contemporary art at the varied intersections of race, gender, and queer theory. At the New Museum, Crockett has curated exhibitions by Wangechi Mutu, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), and Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), and a video project with Zahy Tentehar (previously k.a. Zahy Guajajara). Together with Isabella Rjeille, she is co-curating the forthcoming New Museum Triennial. Previously, she was the Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, where she curated solo projects with Guadalupe Rosales (2021-23) and Jammie Holmes (2020), developed Ja’Tovia Gary: I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD (2023), and co-curated Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas and East Asia, two permanent collection exhibitions, and a presentation of Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death. She was also a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and an Andrew W. Mellon Museum Research Consortium Fellow in the department of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art. She has worked as a research associate at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and as an independent curator with organizations including Visual AIDS, for whom she co-curated the 2017 Day With(out) Art: Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings. Crockett holds a BA in art history from Stanford University and an MA and PhD in art history from Columbia University.
About Ireland Invites
IRELAND INVITES seeks to enhance international exposure for Irish visual artists by hosting biennale curators to undertake visits to studio and art institutions in Ireland. During their visit curators will have the opportunity to enhance their understanding of contemporary art practices in Ireland availing of the curatorial expertise of IMMA, Hugh Lane Gallery and Culture Ireland, who will facilitate research and create bespoke hosted trips for each visiting curator.
Photo credit Sunny Leerasanthanah
