Independent Curators International (ICI) supports the work of curators to help create stronger art communities through experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement. Curators are arts community leaders and organizers who champion artistic practice; build essential infrastructures and institutions; and generate public engagement with art. Our collaborative programs connect curators across generations, and across social, political and cultural borders. They form an international framework for sharing knowledge and resources — promoting cultural exchange, access to art, and public awareness for the curator’s role.
Hitomi Iwasaki
Hitomi Iwasaki is the Director of Exhibitions and Curator at the Queens Museum of Art. She has been a core member of curatorial team of the exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, joint effort among three New York institutions, El Museo del Barrio, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Queens Museum of Art. Scheduled to open in June 2012, the exhibition will offer a compelling and dramatic exploration of the Caribbean and its diaspora from the Haitian Revolution to the present. Over a decade at the Queens Museum she has been working on project based exhibitions with diverse body of artists including Duke Riley, Daniel Bozhkov, O Zhang, Johanna Unzueta, and Terrence Gower among others. Iwasaki is now in preparation for the museum’s new phase with a newly expanded 100,000 square feet facility opening in 2014 with several exhibitions including “Eye Wonder,” commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Panorama of the City of New York and exploring human desire to see.
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DIALOGUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Join us on Tuesday, May 8, at the ICI Curatorial Hub for the 2nd in the conversation series with Leeza Ahmady and Mariam Ghani.
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