Curry J. Hackett
Multimedia artist concerned with Black landscapes.
Visual Culture/Media Studies professor at NYU.
Farmville, VA → DC/Howard U → 📍Brooklyn, NYC

Honored to share I’ve been nominated and selected as one of fifty in this year’s stunning cohort of the 2026 United States Artists fellowship (@unitedstatesartists). Thankful to see, and be a recipient of, such gracious support of arts and culture.
Onward!
What Are People Wearing in NYC? ft. Curry @curryhackett drops Tue, 9/3/2024, @ 11am EST
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I present “So that You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia”, now on view through August 2025 at “Making Home” Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (@cooperhewitt).
The intimate gallery, a former dressing room, features several vignettes that remind me of, and imagine new scenes of, life on my family’s farmland in Prospect, VA. The vignettes are a mix of AI-generated artifacts, items from my personal collection (including several skillets from my own kitchen), archival footage, and a painted/quilted canvas by my mother Penny Stiff Hackett (@pennyhackett), done especially for this show. The gallery walls are draped in 250 pounds of real tobacco leaves—an homage to the plant my ancestors have cultivated for generations.
This project is the result of a year of work, years of wondering how I might incorporate my upbringing more in my practice, and decades of lived experience as a rural Southerner. I’m truly honored I was able to reflect and share my thoughts and dreams with you in this way.
Thank you to the goated curators: @michelleinthemix, @xtina_de_leon, and @alexcunninghamcameron for inviting me to be be a part, and for putting together such a beautiful, mesmerizing show. Thanks to the production team at the museum for getting across the finish line, especially @true.frizz, @tristetoughguy, and @wleah.
Yeah, this one is special.

I present “So that You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia”, now on view through August 2025 at “Making Home” Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (@cooperhewitt).
The intimate gallery, a former dressing room, features several vignettes that remind me of, and imagine new scenes of, life on my family’s farmland in Prospect, VA. The vignettes are a mix of AI-generated artifacts, items from my personal collection (including several skillets from my own kitchen), archival footage, and a painted/quilted canvas by my mother Penny Stiff Hackett (@pennyhackett), done especially for this show. The gallery walls are draped in 250 pounds of real tobacco leaves—an homage to the plant my ancestors have cultivated for generations.
This project is the result of a year of work, years of wondering how I might incorporate my upbringing more in my practice, and decades of lived experience as a rural Southerner. I’m truly honored I was able to reflect and share my thoughts and dreams with you in this way.
Thank you to the goated curators: @michelleinthemix, @xtina_de_leon, and @alexcunninghamcameron for inviting me to be be a part, and for putting together such a beautiful, mesmerizing show. Thanks to the production team at the museum for getting across the finish line, especially @true.frizz, @tristetoughguy, and @wleah.
Yeah, this one is special.

I present “So that You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia”, now on view through August 2025 at “Making Home” Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (@cooperhewitt).
The intimate gallery, a former dressing room, features several vignettes that remind me of, and imagine new scenes of, life on my family’s farmland in Prospect, VA. The vignettes are a mix of AI-generated artifacts, items from my personal collection (including several skillets from my own kitchen), archival footage, and a painted/quilted canvas by my mother Penny Stiff Hackett (@pennyhackett), done especially for this show. The gallery walls are draped in 250 pounds of real tobacco leaves—an homage to the plant my ancestors have cultivated for generations.
This project is the result of a year of work, years of wondering how I might incorporate my upbringing more in my practice, and decades of lived experience as a rural Southerner. I’m truly honored I was able to reflect and share my thoughts and dreams with you in this way.
Thank you to the goated curators: @michelleinthemix, @xtina_de_leon, and @alexcunninghamcameron for inviting me to be be a part, and for putting together such a beautiful, mesmerizing show. Thanks to the production team at the museum for getting across the finish line, especially @true.frizz, @tristetoughguy, and @wleah.
Yeah, this one is special.

I present “So that You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia”, now on view through August 2025 at “Making Home” Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (@cooperhewitt).
The intimate gallery, a former dressing room, features several vignettes that remind me of, and imagine new scenes of, life on my family’s farmland in Prospect, VA. The vignettes are a mix of AI-generated artifacts, items from my personal collection (including several skillets from my own kitchen), archival footage, and a painted/quilted canvas by my mother Penny Stiff Hackett (@pennyhackett), done especially for this show. The gallery walls are draped in 250 pounds of real tobacco leaves—an homage to the plant my ancestors have cultivated for generations.
This project is the result of a year of work, years of wondering how I might incorporate my upbringing more in my practice, and decades of lived experience as a rural Southerner. I’m truly honored I was able to reflect and share my thoughts and dreams with you in this way.
Thank you to the goated curators: @michelleinthemix, @xtina_de_leon, and @alexcunninghamcameron for inviting me to be be a part, and for putting together such a beautiful, mesmerizing show. Thanks to the production team at the museum for getting across the finish line, especially @true.frizz, @tristetoughguy, and @wleah.
Yeah, this one is special.

I present “So that You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia”, now on view through August 2025 at “Making Home” Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (@cooperhewitt).
The intimate gallery, a former dressing room, features several vignettes that remind me of, and imagine new scenes of, life on my family’s farmland in Prospect, VA. The vignettes are a mix of AI-generated artifacts, items from my personal collection (including several skillets from my own kitchen), archival footage, and a painted/quilted canvas by my mother Penny Stiff Hackett (@pennyhackett), done especially for this show. The gallery walls are draped in 250 pounds of real tobacco leaves—an homage to the plant my ancestors have cultivated for generations.
This project is the result of a year of work, years of wondering how I might incorporate my upbringing more in my practice, and decades of lived experience as a rural Southerner. I’m truly honored I was able to reflect and share my thoughts and dreams with you in this way.
Thank you to the goated curators: @michelleinthemix, @xtina_de_leon, and @alexcunninghamcameron for inviting me to be be a part, and for putting together such a beautiful, mesmerizing show. Thanks to the production team at the museum for getting across the finish line, especially @true.frizz, @tristetoughguy, and @wleah.
Yeah, this one is special.
I present “So that You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia”, now on view through August 2025 at “Making Home” Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (@cooperhewitt).
The intimate gallery, a former dressing room, features several vignettes that remind me of, and imagine new scenes of, life on my family’s farmland in Prospect, VA. The vignettes are a mix of AI-generated artifacts, items from my personal collection (including several skillets from my own kitchen), archival footage, and a painted/quilted canvas by my mother Penny Stiff Hackett (@pennyhackett), done especially for this show. The gallery walls are draped in 250 pounds of real tobacco leaves—an homage to the plant my ancestors have cultivated for generations.
This project is the result of a year of work, years of wondering how I might incorporate my upbringing more in my practice, and decades of lived experience as a rural Southerner. I’m truly honored I was able to reflect and share my thoughts and dreams with you in this way.
Thank you to the goated curators: @michelleinthemix, @xtina_de_leon, and @alexcunninghamcameron for inviting me to be be a part, and for putting together such a beautiful, mesmerizing show. Thanks to the production team at the museum for getting across the finish line, especially @true.frizz, @tristetoughguy, and @wleah.
Yeah, this one is special.

I present “So that You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia”, now on view through August 2025 at “Making Home” Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (@cooperhewitt).
The intimate gallery, a former dressing room, features several vignettes that remind me of, and imagine new scenes of, life on my family’s farmland in Prospect, VA. The vignettes are a mix of AI-generated artifacts, items from my personal collection (including several skillets from my own kitchen), archival footage, and a painted/quilted canvas by my mother Penny Stiff Hackett (@pennyhackett), done especially for this show. The gallery walls are draped in 250 pounds of real tobacco leaves—an homage to the plant my ancestors have cultivated for generations.
This project is the result of a year of work, years of wondering how I might incorporate my upbringing more in my practice, and decades of lived experience as a rural Southerner. I’m truly honored I was able to reflect and share my thoughts and dreams with you in this way.
Thank you to the goated curators: @michelleinthemix, @xtina_de_leon, and @alexcunninghamcameron for inviting me to be be a part, and for putting together such a beautiful, mesmerizing show. Thanks to the production team at the museum for getting across the finish line, especially @true.frizz, @tristetoughguy, and @wleah.
Yeah, this one is special.

I present “So that You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia”, now on view through August 2025 at “Making Home” Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (@cooperhewitt).
The intimate gallery, a former dressing room, features several vignettes that remind me of, and imagine new scenes of, life on my family’s farmland in Prospect, VA. The vignettes are a mix of AI-generated artifacts, items from my personal collection (including several skillets from my own kitchen), archival footage, and a painted/quilted canvas by my mother Penny Stiff Hackett (@pennyhackett), done especially for this show. The gallery walls are draped in 250 pounds of real tobacco leaves—an homage to the plant my ancestors have cultivated for generations.
This project is the result of a year of work, years of wondering how I might incorporate my upbringing more in my practice, and decades of lived experience as a rural Southerner. I’m truly honored I was able to reflect and share my thoughts and dreams with you in this way.
Thank you to the goated curators: @michelleinthemix, @xtina_de_leon, and @alexcunninghamcameron for inviting me to be be a part, and for putting together such a beautiful, mesmerizing show. Thanks to the production team at the museum for getting across the finish line, especially @true.frizz, @tristetoughguy, and @wleah.
Yeah, this one is special.
Started a new-ish course today at NYU in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (@mccnyu). We finna have fun :)

“This is not the story of what we were given, it is the story of what we are here to create.” —Rukaiyah Adams
We are moved and inspired by the clarity of @1803fund ‘s mission; and their historically informed vision of the future. It has been thrilling to collaborate with them on Albina Riverside.
Albina Riverside is a major urban design, landscape, and architecture initiative transforming Portland’s historic Louis Dreyfus Co. grain terminal into a 3.2-acre public riverfront rooted in Black cultural life, dynamic community access, and ecological renewal.
The project includes an access bridge, art shed above the silos, basketball shed, site for rotating public art installations, hotel, articulated dock, and a reparative landscape. This is just the beginning.
We wanted to shout out this amazingly brilliant bi-coastal team with whom we had the honor of collaborating:
Architect & Urban Designer: @ad__wo
Designer: @jenniferbonner_mall
Conceptual consultant: @curryhackett
Images courtesy of AD—WO, MALL & Wayside Studio
Renderings by: The Light We Make @_evan_mott_
Creative Consultant: Natanya Jones @just_msjones
Identity and Graphic Design: @amenamen.studio
Development Partner: @project_journal
Structural Concept: @hanif.kara
@ad__wo team: Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood, David Zhang @david.zhangs , Katie Solien @kt.solien , Khloe Swanson
@jenniferbonner_mall team: Jennifer Bonner, Sam Sheffer @sam.h.sheffer , Emily Majors @majors.em , Alex Croft @alex.l.croft

“This is not the story of what we were given, it is the story of what we are here to create.” —Rukaiyah Adams
We are moved and inspired by the clarity of @1803fund ‘s mission; and their historically informed vision of the future. It has been thrilling to collaborate with them on Albina Riverside.
Albina Riverside is a major urban design, landscape, and architecture initiative transforming Portland’s historic Louis Dreyfus Co. grain terminal into a 3.2-acre public riverfront rooted in Black cultural life, dynamic community access, and ecological renewal.
The project includes an access bridge, art shed above the silos, basketball shed, site for rotating public art installations, hotel, articulated dock, and a reparative landscape. This is just the beginning.
We wanted to shout out this amazingly brilliant bi-coastal team with whom we had the honor of collaborating:
Architect & Urban Designer: @ad__wo
Designer: @jenniferbonner_mall
Conceptual consultant: @curryhackett
Images courtesy of AD—WO, MALL & Wayside Studio
Renderings by: The Light We Make @_evan_mott_
Creative Consultant: Natanya Jones @just_msjones
Identity and Graphic Design: @amenamen.studio
Development Partner: @project_journal
Structural Concept: @hanif.kara
@ad__wo team: Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood, David Zhang @david.zhangs , Katie Solien @kt.solien , Khloe Swanson
@jenniferbonner_mall team: Jennifer Bonner, Sam Sheffer @sam.h.sheffer , Emily Majors @majors.em , Alex Croft @alex.l.croft

“This is not the story of what we were given, it is the story of what we are here to create.” —Rukaiyah Adams
We are moved and inspired by the clarity of @1803fund ‘s mission; and their historically informed vision of the future. It has been thrilling to collaborate with them on Albina Riverside.
Albina Riverside is a major urban design, landscape, and architecture initiative transforming Portland’s historic Louis Dreyfus Co. grain terminal into a 3.2-acre public riverfront rooted in Black cultural life, dynamic community access, and ecological renewal.
The project includes an access bridge, art shed above the silos, basketball shed, site for rotating public art installations, hotel, articulated dock, and a reparative landscape. This is just the beginning.
We wanted to shout out this amazingly brilliant bi-coastal team with whom we had the honor of collaborating:
Architect & Urban Designer: @ad__wo
Designer: @jenniferbonner_mall
Conceptual consultant: @curryhackett
Images courtesy of AD—WO, MALL & Wayside Studio
Renderings by: The Light We Make @_evan_mott_
Creative Consultant: Natanya Jones @just_msjones
Identity and Graphic Design: @amenamen.studio
Development Partner: @project_journal
Structural Concept: @hanif.kara
@ad__wo team: Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood, David Zhang @david.zhangs , Katie Solien @kt.solien , Khloe Swanson
@jenniferbonner_mall team: Jennifer Bonner, Sam Sheffer @sam.h.sheffer , Emily Majors @majors.em , Alex Croft @alex.l.croft

“This is not the story of what we were given, it is the story of what we are here to create.” —Rukaiyah Adams
We are moved and inspired by the clarity of @1803fund ‘s mission; and their historically informed vision of the future. It has been thrilling to collaborate with them on Albina Riverside.
Albina Riverside is a major urban design, landscape, and architecture initiative transforming Portland’s historic Louis Dreyfus Co. grain terminal into a 3.2-acre public riverfront rooted in Black cultural life, dynamic community access, and ecological renewal.
The project includes an access bridge, art shed above the silos, basketball shed, site for rotating public art installations, hotel, articulated dock, and a reparative landscape. This is just the beginning.
We wanted to shout out this amazingly brilliant bi-coastal team with whom we had the honor of collaborating:
Architect & Urban Designer: @ad__wo
Designer: @jenniferbonner_mall
Conceptual consultant: @curryhackett
Images courtesy of AD—WO, MALL & Wayside Studio
Renderings by: The Light We Make @_evan_mott_
Creative Consultant: Natanya Jones @just_msjones
Identity and Graphic Design: @amenamen.studio
Development Partner: @project_journal
Structural Concept: @hanif.kara
@ad__wo team: Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood, David Zhang @david.zhangs , Katie Solien @kt.solien , Khloe Swanson
@jenniferbonner_mall team: Jennifer Bonner, Sam Sheffer @sam.h.sheffer , Emily Majors @majors.em , Alex Croft @alex.l.croft

“This is not the story of what we were given, it is the story of what we are here to create.” —Rukaiyah Adams
We are moved and inspired by the clarity of @1803fund ‘s mission; and their historically informed vision of the future. It has been thrilling to collaborate with them on Albina Riverside.
Albina Riverside is a major urban design, landscape, and architecture initiative transforming Portland’s historic Louis Dreyfus Co. grain terminal into a 3.2-acre public riverfront rooted in Black cultural life, dynamic community access, and ecological renewal.
The project includes an access bridge, art shed above the silos, basketball shed, site for rotating public art installations, hotel, articulated dock, and a reparative landscape. This is just the beginning.
We wanted to shout out this amazingly brilliant bi-coastal team with whom we had the honor of collaborating:
Architect & Urban Designer: @ad__wo
Designer: @jenniferbonner_mall
Conceptual consultant: @curryhackett
Images courtesy of AD—WO, MALL & Wayside Studio
Renderings by: The Light We Make @_evan_mott_
Creative Consultant: Natanya Jones @just_msjones
Identity and Graphic Design: @amenamen.studio
Development Partner: @project_journal
Structural Concept: @hanif.kara
@ad__wo team: Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood, David Zhang @david.zhangs , Katie Solien @kt.solien , Khloe Swanson
@jenniferbonner_mall team: Jennifer Bonner, Sam Sheffer @sam.h.sheffer , Emily Majors @majors.em , Alex Croft @alex.l.croft

“This is not the story of what we were given, it is the story of what we are here to create.” —Rukaiyah Adams
We are moved and inspired by the clarity of @1803fund ‘s mission; and their historically informed vision of the future. It has been thrilling to collaborate with them on Albina Riverside.
Albina Riverside is a major urban design, landscape, and architecture initiative transforming Portland’s historic Louis Dreyfus Co. grain terminal into a 3.2-acre public riverfront rooted in Black cultural life, dynamic community access, and ecological renewal.
The project includes an access bridge, art shed above the silos, basketball shed, site for rotating public art installations, hotel, articulated dock, and a reparative landscape. This is just the beginning.
We wanted to shout out this amazingly brilliant bi-coastal team with whom we had the honor of collaborating:
Architect & Urban Designer: @ad__wo
Designer: @jenniferbonner_mall
Conceptual consultant: @curryhackett
Images courtesy of AD—WO, MALL & Wayside Studio
Renderings by: The Light We Make @_evan_mott_
Creative Consultant: Natanya Jones @just_msjones
Identity and Graphic Design: @amenamen.studio
Development Partner: @project_journal
Structural Concept: @hanif.kara
@ad__wo team: Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood, David Zhang @david.zhangs , Katie Solien @kt.solien , Khloe Swanson
@jenniferbonner_mall team: Jennifer Bonner, Sam Sheffer @sam.h.sheffer , Emily Majors @majors.em , Alex Croft @alex.l.croft

“This is not the story of what we were given, it is the story of what we are here to create.” —Rukaiyah Adams
We are moved and inspired by the clarity of @1803fund ‘s mission; and their historically informed vision of the future. It has been thrilling to collaborate with them on Albina Riverside.
Albina Riverside is a major urban design, landscape, and architecture initiative transforming Portland’s historic Louis Dreyfus Co. grain terminal into a 3.2-acre public riverfront rooted in Black cultural life, dynamic community access, and ecological renewal.
The project includes an access bridge, art shed above the silos, basketball shed, site for rotating public art installations, hotel, articulated dock, and a reparative landscape. This is just the beginning.
We wanted to shout out this amazingly brilliant bi-coastal team with whom we had the honor of collaborating:
Architect & Urban Designer: @ad__wo
Designer: @jenniferbonner_mall
Conceptual consultant: @curryhackett
Images courtesy of AD—WO, MALL & Wayside Studio
Renderings by: The Light We Make @_evan_mott_
Creative Consultant: Natanya Jones @just_msjones
Identity and Graphic Design: @amenamen.studio
Development Partner: @project_journal
Structural Concept: @hanif.kara
@ad__wo team: Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood, David Zhang @david.zhangs , Katie Solien @kt.solien , Khloe Swanson
@jenniferbonner_mall team: Jennifer Bonner, Sam Sheffer @sam.h.sheffer , Emily Majors @majors.em , Alex Croft @alex.l.croft
Channel 8: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤
Always amused and fascinated by how AI models get musical instruments so hilariously “wrong”.
(cc: @huthhayden 👀)
#thereareotherchannels

Channel 8: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤
Always amused and fascinated by how AI models get musical instruments so hilariously “wrong”.
(cc: @huthhayden 👀)
#thereareotherchannels

Channel 8: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤
Always amused and fascinated by how AI models get musical instruments so hilariously “wrong”.
(cc: @huthhayden 👀)
#thereareotherchannels

Channel 8: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤
Always amused and fascinated by how AI models get musical instruments so hilariously “wrong”.
(cc: @huthhayden 👀)
#thereareotherchannels

Channel 8: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤
Always amused and fascinated by how AI models get musical instruments so hilariously “wrong”.
(cc: @huthhayden 👀)
#thereareotherchannels

Channel 8: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤
Always amused and fascinated by how AI models get musical instruments so hilariously “wrong”.
(cc: @huthhayden 👀)
#thereareotherchannels
Channel 5: QULT-TV (Glitching the Assembly)
#thereareotherchannels
Channel 5: QULT-TV (Glitching the Assembly)
#thereareotherchannels
Channel 5: QULT-TV (Glitching the Assembly)
#thereareotherchannels
Channel 5: QULT-TV (Glitching the Assembly)
#thereareotherchannels
Channel 5: QULT-TV (Glitching the Assembly)
#thereareotherchannels
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