About
Rachel Churner is an art critic, editor, and professor whose essays and reviews have appeared in publications from Artforum to October magazine. She is the co-founder of no place press and currently serves as the director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation where she furthers the legacy of the pioneering artist through exhibitions, books, programs, and the creation of a residency program at the artist’s home in upstate New York. No place press is an independent publishing house whose books have received critical acclaim by leading periodicals, including Art in America, Artforum, the Guardian, and the Washington Post. Churner received the 2018 Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and is the editor of Hans Haacke (2015), Jordan Kantor: Selected Exhibitions 2006–2016 (2017), Yvonne Rainer: Revisions (2020), and two volumes of writings by film historian Annette Michelson (MIT Press, 2017 and 2020), as well as exhibition catalogues on Jaime Davidovich, Charlotte Posenenske, and James Ensor, among others. She owned and operated Churner and Churner, a contemporary art gallery in New York, from 2011 to 2015. Churner holds degrees in Art History from Stanford University and Columbia University and teaches in the Department of Visual Studies at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.