andrew mcneely

I am a writer, editor, curator, and a curatorial advisor to Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics (September 7, 2024 – January 5, 2025). My writing and curating engage with debates on the philosophy of art and race, as well as spatial and environmental justice.

I am the curator of A NonHuman Horizon: Andrea Chung, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Jenny Yurshansky, and The Harrison Studio (June 29 – September 1, 2019) at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Restless Debris: Kevin Jerome Everson, Latipa (née Michelle Dizon), and Ivor Shearer (January 9 – February 6, 2016) at the University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine.

Since 2018, I have stewarded the Community Reading Group (CRG), a critical literacy collective that is dedicated to verbalizing the limits of community and the duties of common life. CRG is organized by Olivia Leiter, Michael Berlin, Joy Park, Hailey Loman, Evelena Ruether, and Zach Whitworth. I live in Los Angeles.



Presentations and Panels

Invited Speaker: "Between Us walkthrough with guest curator Andrew McNeely," part of Between Us: Tools, People, and the Environment. Art in the Park (Los Angeles, CA 5/02/2021).

Panelist: “Artist Talk: Erik Moskowitz & Amanda Trager. Panel discussion: Peggy Ahwesh, Jordan Lord, Andrew McNeely, Keith Sanborn and Jessie Stead,” part of PLATFORM. Microscope Gallery (New York City, NY 7/13/2020).

Interviewer: “Q&A: Gabrielle Civil & Andrew McNeely,” part of Acid-Free II Los Angeles Art Book Market. Blum & Poe (Los Angeles, CA 11/03/2019 ).

Introductory Speaker: “Every Struggle is an Ecological Struggle: Towards a Radical Arts Activism,” facilitated by Raina León, part of A NonHuman Horizon. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA 08/10/2019 – 08/11/2019).

Panelist: “Curating the Nonhuman World: Hugo Hopping, Dorit Cypis, and Andrew McNeely,” part of The Winter Office: Social Territories of a Warming World. The Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA 07/27/2019).

Moderator: “Parks, Pools, and the People: Nan Rothschild, Marie Warsh, and Kazembe Balagun,” Le Petit Versailles Community Garden (New York City, NY 06/01/2019).