Jenni Crain, 30-Year-Old Artist and Curator, Dies of COVID-19

Jenni Crain, a New York-based artist, writer, and curator born in 1991, died on December 16, 2021, at age 30 from COVID-19 complications. The news was released days later. Crain served as director of Kaufmann Repetto New York from 2016 to 2019. In 2020, she was a curatorial fellow at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, and in 2021 she earned a Master's in curatorial studies from CCS Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, with a thesis on feminist writer and activist Kate Millett. Her artistic practice featured sculptures resembling dysfunctional furniture with minimal, elegant forms, exhibited at 321 Gallery, Baba Yaga, and Gordon Robichaux. As a curator, she championed women artists, including Tee A. Corrine, March Avery, and Ann Gillen. Two posthumous exhibitions are scheduled in New York for 2022: 'Moments Spared' at Kerry Schuss Gallery (January 29–February 6) and 'Fleeting' at Gordon Robichaux in May.