Wassan Al-Khudhairi is an accomplished curator and arts leader, and currently the Artistic Director for Art Basel Qatar's 2027 edition.
Adeola Enigbokan is a New York-based artist and writer.
Hollie Kearns is an independent curator and arts producer based in Kilkenny, Ireland.
Ece Pazarbaşı is a curator based in Istanbul and Berlin.
Rachel Waldrop (née Reese) is Director and Curator of the Athenaeum and the Dodd Galleries at the University of Georgia (UGA).
Merve Ünsal is an artist based in Istanbul.
Daniel DeLuca is an artist, curator, and the current Director of Mobius, the experimental artist group and artist-run center in Boston.
Marianna Dobkowska is an art historian and curator of residencies, situations, and exhibitions.
Lilian Fraiji is an independent curator and producer based in Manaus, Amazon, Brazil.
Ruth Heritage is Creative Director & Lead Curator for They Eat Culture (TEC), a cultural production non-profit, which she founded in 2009 to develop art and culture in Preston (& Lancashire), UK.
Ivana Mestrov is currently a research assistant within the Art History Department at Split University, Split, Croatia, and an active independent curator.
Michael Wellen is Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles.
Sharmila Wood is a Perth, Western Australia-based independent curator who works on creative and cultural initiatives producing, curating, and commissioning artwork.
For more than 20 years, Higgs has shown consistent ways to supports artists, artist-groups, and curators, through his writing, interviews, curating, and teaching, as well as his reinvention and on-going development of White Columns as a space for people to experiment with the presentation of new ideas and work.
Mark Beasley is a curator, writer, and artist based in New York.
Renaud Proch is Independent Curators International (ICI)’s Executive & Artistic Director.
María del Carmen Carrión is Project Manager for the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Franklin Sirmans is the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Brooklyn-based artist and writer Jill Magid forms intimate relationships with systems of power, including police, military, secret service, corporations, and CCTV surveillance.
Yasmil Raymond is a curator and writer.
Sarah Hromack is a digital strategist and writer working at the intersection of technology, media, publications, contemporary art, and institutions.
Deborah Cullen-Morales, PhD, is senior program officer for arts and culture at the Mellon Foundation.
Credits
The Curatorial Intensive was made possible in part by grants from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Dedalus Foundation, and the Hartfield Foundation; and by generous contributions from Toby Devan Lewis, the ICI Board of Trustees, the ICI Gerrit Lansing Education Fund, and the supporters of ICI's Access Fund.