Who's in town?
Ryan Inouye

Is it morning for you yet?
58th Carnegie International

Salt Beyoğlu

October 18, 2022 18.30

Banujpg 1000 Installation view of Banu Cennetoğlu, <i>right?</i>, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2022
Courtesy the artist and Carnegie Museum of Art (Photo: Sean Eaton)
Installation view of Banu Cennetoğlu, right?, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2022
Courtesy the artist and Carnegie Museum of Art (Photo: Sean Eaton)
Walk-in Cinema

In this Who’s in town? talk, Ryan Inouye, associate curator of Is it morning for you yet? 58th Carnegie International will speak about the recently opened exhibition that unfolds along two conceptual overlapping currents: historical works from the collections of international institutions, estates, and artists, alongside commissions and new works by contemporary artists.

Established in 1896, Carnegie International is the longest-running North American exhibition of international art. Organized every three to four years by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the International presents an overview of how art and artists respond to the critical questions of our time. Organized by curator Sohrab Mohebbi and associate curator Ryan Inouye with curatorial assistant Talia Heiman, the 58th edition locates the concept of the “international” within the geopolitical imprint of the United States since 1945. Featured artworks hold in balance the aims of resistance, solidarity and political representation with the desire to reconfigure our ways of life and being together. In this way, the exhibition brings together an ensemble of erratic, unruly, and intractable attitudes and gestures that inhabit but are not defined by the history of this 126-year-old biennial-form exhibition.

The talk will be held in English.



Ryan Inouye is the associate curator of Is it morning for you yet? 58th Carnegie International, organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, United States. Previously, he served as senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates, where his curatorial projects included the exhibitions Rayyane Tabet: Exquisite Corpse (2021), Surface Tension (2019), Ala Younis: Steps Toward the Impossible (2018) and Active Forms, the 2018 edition of March Meeting, an annual program of talks, performances, and screenings that take up developments in contemporary art. He was the associate curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2014–2015), and held curatorial posts at New York’s New Museum, focusing on the 2012 New Museum Triennial and the Museum as Hub initiative, as well as Los Angeles’ REDCAT. He is the recipient of Foundation for Art Initiatives curatorial research grant (2013). Inouye holds an MRes in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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