Ryan Inouye

Ryan Inouye is Associate Curator of the 58th Carnegie International. Most recently, he was Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF), where he organized the exhibitions Rayyane Tabet: Exquisite Corpse (2021), Surface Tension (2019), and Ala Younis: Steps Toward the Impossible (2018). In addition, he co-organized the 2018 edition of the March Meeting, an annual programme of talks, performances, and screenings that explores developments in culture through contemporary art. Previously, Inouye served as Associate Curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2014–15). He has held curatorial posts at the New Museum, New York, where he supported development of the Museum as Hub initiative and the 2012 New Museum Triennial: The Ungovernables, and at REDCAT, Los Angeles. He has written on the work of Abraham Cruzvillegas, Iman Issa, Steffani Jemison, Rayyane Tabet, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ala Younis, among others.