59th Carnegie International Curatorial Team Anounced
It is my distinct pleasure to announce the appointment of Ryan Inouye, Danielle A. Jackson, and Liz Park as the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curators of the 59th Carnegie International, which is slated to open on May 2, 2026 and run through Jan. 3, 2027.
This upcoming iteration of the Carnegie 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. 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.
These curatorial appointments reflect the museum's guiding ambition to build a collaborative culture of inquiry and exchange through our artistic program. In their individual curatorial practices, Ryan, Danielle, and Liz actively convene and participate in conversations that are shaping the present and future of contemporary art and culture. They each bring to the Carnegie International their extensive experience working with artists and their unique feel for emergent ideas, forms, events, and experiences.
Stay tuned for more updates about the Carnegie International. We cannot wait to welcome you through our doors on May 2, 2026!
—Eric Crosby, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Vice President, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Ryan Inouye
Kathe and Jim Patrinos Co-Curator, 59th Carnegie International
Curator, International Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Ryan Inouye currently serves as curator of international art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, a role he was appointed to in 2023 after serving as associate curator of Is it morning for you yet?, the 58th Carnegie International. Prior to his work in Pittsburgh, Inouye served as senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates where he curated exploratory solo and group exhibitions and co-organized Active Forms, the 2018 edition of the annual March Meeting, which inspires dialogue around developments in contemporary art and culture. Prior, Inouye held the post of associate curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2014–2015), which featured new works, site-specific commissions, and performances, and held curatorial positions at New York’s New Museum, where he stewarded artist residencies, curatorial collaborations, and discursive programming such as Hub initiative and the 2012 New Museum Triennial: The Ungovernables. Previously, he served as curatorial assistant at REDCAT in Los Angeles. Inouye was the recipient of a Foundation for Art Initiatives grant and earned an MRes in Curatorial/Knowledge in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Danielle A. Jackson
Kathe and Jim Patrinos Co-Curator, 59th Carnegie International
Curator, Artists Space, New York
Danielle A. Jackson is curator at Artists Space, New York, where she has worked on notable projects including Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency, rafa esparza: Camino, and Las Nietas de Nono: Posibles Escenarios, Vol.1 LNN. She was formerly the Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) where she worked on member:Pope.L, 1978–2001 and Modern Dance: Ralph Lemon. Before coming to MoMA, Jackson was a Mellon Interdisciplinary Arts Fellow at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where she coedited the online publication Living Collections Catalogue Volume IV: Creative Black Music.
Liz Park
Kathe and Jim Patrinos Co-Curator, 59th Carnegie International
Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Liz Park is Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, where she is currently working on the reinstallation of the museum’s collection. She was most recently curator of exhibitions at the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, State University of New York, and was associate curator of the 2018 Carnegie International. She was the Helena Rubinstein Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program (2011–2012) and the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at ICA Philadelphia (2013–2015). She received her BFA in visual art and MA in curatorial studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
