59th Carnegie International Curatorial Team

Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curators Ryan Inouye, Danielle A. Jackson, and Liz Park approach curating the International as a shared endeavor to surface the potential meanings and relationships in the creation and experience of art today.

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.

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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.

Michelle Song

Curatorial Assistant, 59th Carnegie International

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.

Sergi Espinales

Margaret Powell Curatorial Fellow 

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.

Cynthia Stucki

Assistant Curator

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.