Annual Rothschild Lecture: Renee Cox

Meet artist Renee Cox, who was born in Colgate, Jamaica, and who lives and works in New York. Cox is a photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator whose feminist work forthrightly critiques structures of power. She uses her own body, both nude and clothed, to celebrate Black womanhood and criticize a society she often views as racist and sexist. Her work, The Housewife Missy at Home from the series Black Housewives, is on view in In Relation to Power: Politically Engaged Works from the Collection.

The annual lecture is made possible by Barbra and Andrew Rothschild. Past speakers include artists John Akomfrah, the Guerrilla Girls, Kerry James Marshall, Dave Muller, Odili Donald Odita, Ebony G. Patterson, Dario Robleto, Amy Sherald, Eve Sussman, Carrie Mae Weems and Kehinde Wiley. Other past speakers include art critic and cultural theorist Dave Hickey and Thelma Golden, director of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

This artist talk is also a Keynote Lecture of the 2021 CLICK! Photography Festival.

Learn more about the artist.

Zoom link to lecture.