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 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 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.

Haytham El-Wardany is a writer and translator living and working in Berlin. He spent the last year listening to talking animals, in fables and elsewhere, and he learned from them how to speak in moments of danger. His latest book, Jackals and the Missing Letters (Al-Karma 2023), considers forgotten expressions of hope in Arabic fables, where animals speak and humans listen, in a moment of post–“Arab Spring” speechlessness. In previous publications, including The Book of Sleep and How to Disappear, el-Wardany has examined the potential of passivity, through regimes of listening and the dialectics of sleep and vigilance. He is the recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism 2022–2023.

kimi malka hanauer is an artist, writer, and publisher. They are a founding member of the collective Press Press, a steward of the nomadic education initiative Ungovernable Study, and an assistant professor at Pratt Institute. hanauer cultivates poetic and material interventions into the intimate and daily operations of imperial fields of power. Their recent work includes the solo exhibition ungovernable (Printed Matter, New York, 2025); the essay and visual archive an everyday archive of time stolen back (Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, 2025); and the essay “on the edges of a mother tongue,” published by C Magazine, Toronto (2026). Their projects, writings, and programs have been presented with the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances, New York; Wendy’s Subway, New York; A Blade of Grass, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; Counterpublic, St. Louis; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Allied Media Conference, Detroit; X-TRA, Los Angeles; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. They received a 2023 Lightning Fund award from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, a 2023–2024 Independent Study Program Studio Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and, with Press Press, a 2024 Artist Choice Award.

Marianne Nicolson holds a PhD in linguistics and anthropology from the University of Victoria and is an internationally recognized visual artist. She utilizes her academic and artistic practice as a platform to advocate for Indigenous linguistic and cultural resurgence. Nicholson has created monumental public works at the Vancouver International Airport, the Canadian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, and the Canadian Embassy in Paris.

Christian Nyampeta is an artist working across art, design, and theory. His practice includes the convening of a roaming program of exhibitions, screenings, and lyrical performances concerned with exploring the question of how to live together through ideas of monument and translation. His latest projects include Is it morning for you yet?, 58th Carnegie International (2022); École du soir (The Evening Academy), SculptureCenter, New York (2019); and A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2019). Nyampeta also exhibited at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2019) and Camden Arts Centre, London (2017). He participated in the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg (2019), the Dakar Biennale (2018), and the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016). Nyampeta runs Radius, an online and occasionally inhabitable radio station. He is a PhD student at the Visual Cultures Department of Goldsmiths, University of London. He was awarded the Art Prize Future of Europe 2019.

Haegue Yang teaches at her alma mater, the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Her work seeks to communicate without language in a primordial and visual way through experiences of scent, sound, light, and tactility. Combining industrial fabrication and folk craftsmanship, Yang explores the affective power of materials to blur the distinction between the modern and the premodern. Recent solo exhibitions include Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2025); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2025); Kunsthal Rotterdam (2025); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2025); ACC Chicago (2024); Hayward Gallery, London (2024); and Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023). In 2018, Yang won the Wolfgang Hahn Prize at Ludwig Museum in Cologne and in 2022 was awarded the 13th Benesse Prize during the Singapore Biennale.

Sergi Espinales is the Margaret Powell Curatorial Fellow at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. He’s previously worked at the Rubell Museum, Miami and is the founder and director of the 8’ x 10’ Gallery. He received his BFA in Sculpture and BA in Art History from Kansas City Art Institute,

Michelle Song is a writer and curator, originally from Shenzhen, China. Prior to this post, she served as the Program Manager at the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. She has curated exhibitions at Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York; The Clemente, New York; and CCS Galleries.

Cynthia Stucki is assistant curator at Carnegie Museum of Art and served as curatorial assistant in contemporary art and photography from 2022–2025. She received a BFA from Florida Atlantic University and an MA in curatorial studies from Zurich University of the Arts.