Cornell is the Chief Curator of the Hessel Museum of Art[1] and the Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
[7] She stepped down from her role at Rhizome in July 2012 to curate the New Museum's third Triennial, Surround Audience, in 2015, co-organized with the artist Ryan Trecartin.
[8] At the Center for Curatorial Studies, she oversees the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies and has curated monographic exhibitions of Sky Hopinka,[9] Martine Syms,[10] Nil Yalter[11] (coorganized with Museum Ludwig, Cologne), Dara Birnbaum (her first US retrospective),[12] Daniel Steegmann Mangrane,[13] Liliana Porter,[14] Erika Verzutti,[15] and Leidy Churchman.
[16] In 2019, she cocurated Phantom Plane: Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future with Xue Tan, Dawn Chan, Jeppe Ugelvig and Tobias Berger at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong.
[17] She has contributed to publications including Aperture,[18] Art in America,[19] ArtReview, Frieze,[20][21] and Mousse,[22][23] and written on artists for monographic catalogues.