Curatorial Team Announced for 59th Carnegie International

The organizers of the Carnegie International have announced that Danielle A. Jackson, Liz Park, and Ryan Inouye will curate the quadrennial event’s fifty-ninth edition, set to run May 2, 2026, to January 3, 2027. Jackson is a curator at Artists Space, New York; Park is curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and Inouye is curator of international art at the same institution. Their appointment is meant to reflect the museum’s goal of creating what it describes as a “collaborative culture of inquiry and exchange” through its programming. “This iteration of the International—the most collaborative and far-reaching to date—will be a clear expression of the museum’s founding commitment to the art and artists of our time, at once grounded in our locality and extending globally,” said Carnegie Museum of Art director Eric Crosby in a statement.

“Ryan, Danielle, and Liz will approach this complex undertaking as a shared endeavor to catalyze creative agency in the lives of artists, visitors, and all who experience the exhibition. Individually and collectively, these curators share a heightened sensitivity for the potential meanings and relationships that surface in the creation and experience of art today. I look forward to working with Ryan, Danielle, and Liz as we deepen the institutional memory and promise of the Carnegie International as a resource of expansive artistic inquiry in our region and beyond.”RelatedANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION ARTS WRITERS GRANT ANNOUNCES 2023 GRANTEESGENE BEERY (1937–2023) Each of the three curators focuses on a different facet of artistic practice. Jackson has worked on solo exhibitions by Milford Graves, rafa esparza, Pope.L, and Ralph Lemon, and was a coeditor of the Walker Art Center’s online publicationLiving Collections Catalogue Volume IV: Creative Black Music. Park, who served as associate curator of the 2018 Carnegie International, is working on the reinstallation of the Carnegie Museum’s collection; she was previously curator of exhibitions at the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, State University of New York.

Inouye was associate curator of the 2022 Carnegie International; before that, he was senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates and served as associate curator of Sharjah Biennial 12..