Courtney Childress
Founding Member

Specializes in: Portfolio Review, Artist Statements, Press Releases, Social Media, Preparing for Studio Visits, Preparing for Exhibitions and Systems for Art Business

www.courtneychildress.com

 

Courtney Childress co-founded yours mine & ours gallery in the Lower East Side of New York in 2016. Previously she was the Director of Life on Mars Gallery from 2015-2016. She worked for On Stellar Rays from 2010-2015, starting as an assistant and working her way up to Director at the gallery. During this time, seven of the artists in the gallery had major museum acquisitions and exhibitions, the gallery was written about by the New York Times, Art in America and Artforum. She has curated many exhibitions, most recently Tell Me Again by Eliot Greenwald at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (2019); Static Limit by Esther Ruiz at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017); Water Sports by Todd Bienvenu at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017); Touching in the Dark - Mandy Lyn Ford and Sarah Faux at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2016); 60 Minutes at Vanity Projects, New York, NY (2015) & Vanity Projects, Miami, FL (2015); and No Name at On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2013). Courtney has worked on independent projects with Sarah Oppenheimer, JJ PEET, Rochelle Feinstein, Joan Snyder, Julia Bland and others. She received her MFA from State University of New York at Purchase (2011); Post-Baccalaureate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2009); and her BFA from the University of Alabama in (2008).


 
I spoke to Courtney about my Instagram account and an upcoming studio visit with a local artist. I asked lots of questions and she had lots of very specific answers for me. She guided me with kindness and sensitivity. It was a real pleasure to talk to her. If you are considering Ninth Street’s services, do not hesitate. You will be glad you did.
— Seema Nanda, artist