Helena Reckitt is a curator and art
critic based in London, UK, and Senior Lecturer in Curating at Goldsmiths, University
of London. Previously Senior Curator of
Programmes at the Power Plant Toronto
from 2006 – 2010, she has also held
curatorial and programming positions at
the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA,
and the Institute of Contemporary Arts,
London. In the late 1980s she was an associate commissioning editor of Performance
and Flm studies at Routledge in London.
Reckitt has curated and co-curated solo
exhibitions of the work of Yael Bartana,
Keren Cytter, Harrell Fletcher, Joachim
Koester, Hew Locke, Ryan Trecartin, Paul
Shambroom, and Carey Young. Her group
exhibitions have explored inter-species
relations (‘Adaptation’, 2010), memory and
re-enactment (‘Not Quite How I Remember
It’, 2008), and corporate and academic
conduct (‘What Business Are You In?’,
2005). Reckitt is on the editorial board of
the Journal for Curatorial Studies. She is
editor of the sourcebook Art and Feminism
(Phaidon Press, 2001), with an introduction
by Peggy Phelan, which has been translated in abbreviated form into French,
Japanese and Spanish.
