Re'al Christian (she/her) is a writer, editor, and art historian based in Queens, NY. Her work explores issues related to identity, diasporas, ecology, media, and materiality. Her essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and ART PAPERS, where she is a Contributing Editor. She has written texts for catalogues and anthologies including And ever an edge (Studio Museum in Harlem 2024), Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism (Paper Monument 2023), Howardena Pindell: Numbers/Pathways/Grids (Garth Greenan and Dieu Donné 2022), and On the Town: A Performa Compendium 2016–2021 (Gregory R. Miller & Co. 2021), among others. Her curatorial projects include Repetition means a/void (Parent Company 2023), Steven Anthony Johnson II: Getting Blood from Stone (International Studio & Curatorial Program 2022), The earth leaked red ochre (Miriam Gallery 2022), as well as The Black Index (2020–22) and Life as Activity: David Lamelas (2021), which she worked on as a graduate curatorial fellow at the Hunter College Art Galleries. Christian is the Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, a nonprofit research center based at The New School. She received her MA in Art History from Hunter College. She holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University, where she double majored in Art History and Media, Culture, and Communication.