Legacy Russell (b. 1986, New York City, USA) is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, New York. Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. Recent exhibitions include: Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: Filling Station, Samora Pinderhughes: GRIEF,  and Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon, all at The Kitchen, New York (2023-2022); The New Bend, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles and Somerset (2023-2022); The Condition of Being Addressable, ICA, Los Angeles (2022); Projects: Kahlil Robert Irving, Projects: Garrett Bradley, and Projects: Michael Armitage all at The Studio Museum in Harlem in partnership with The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2022-2019); (Never) As I Was, This Longing Vessel, and MOOD at The Studio Museum in Harlem in partnership with MoMA PS1, New York (2021); Thomas J Price: Witness, Dozie Kanu: Function, Chloë Bass: Wayfinding, and Radical Reading Room all at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2021-2019). She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award and a 2023 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow. Her first book is Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020). Her second book, BLACK MEME, is forthcoming via Verso Books.