Joey Orr

Joey Orr is Deputy Director and Chief of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago. He previously served as the Mellon Curator at the Spencer Museum of Art, where he directed Arts Research Integration and was affiliate faculty in Museum Studies and Visual Art at KU. Writing has been published in both edited and peer-reviewed publications, including Art Journal Open, BOMB, Hyperallergic, and Journal of American Studies. His research on performance and social practice has appeared in Rhetoric, Social Value, and the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan) and in his book, A Sourcebook of Performance Labor (Routledge). He has served in various editorial capacities for many publications, currently as a contributing editor for Art Papers magazine. He holds an MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD from Emory University. A founding member of the idea collective, John Q, their projects explored public intervention, queer memory, and archival practices.