Empowering New Voices

ICI connects curators and artists to one another and to ideas from around the world so that we may collectively address the new and urgent challenges of our times. Over the last decade, ICI has championed a new generation of curators who share the organization's belief in the power of experimentation, cooperation, and global solidarity.

Our programs help build a complex and diverse contemporary art field by providing a unique platform for independent curatorial practice. In particular, the Curatorial Intensive has provided nearly 500 curators from 70 countries with the theoretical, critical, and logistical tools needed to conduct responsive and ambitious work. Through collaboration with our long-standing partners, such as Marian Goodman Gallery, programs like our Curatorial Fellowships allow for long-term professional development that advances often-overlooked curatorial and artistic practices, defining contemporary art in the full expression of its interpersonal, social, and global contexts.

Becoming a part of our network is often a long-lasting partnership—participants in our programs regularly go on to produce the new exhibitions, public programs, research, and communities of learning that continue to drive ICI's work and the field forward. Our collaborators also form a dynamic network of Alumni who represent and are continually shaping arts communities worldwide.