Over the past eight years, the Curatorial Forum has provided over 280 curators from 30 U.S. states an opportunity to engage with their peers and explore significant issues in the field. Co-produced by ICI and EXPO CHICAGO, the Forum is an unmatched program for curatorial exchange that has fostered strong national and regional networks for collaboration.
In 2023, the Curatorial Forum will bring together more than 40 curators from across the United States. It will feature a keynote lecture by Victoria Noorthoorn (Director, Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires), and closed-doors sessions focused on the notion of care in the museum and curatorial fields, as it relates to accessibility, community engagement, labor conditions, and new ways of working with artists.
The 2023 edition of the Forum will see the addition of the Chicago Assembly, a cohort of Chicago-based curators including Sheridan Tucker Anderson, Antawan I. Byrd, Yi Cao, Jadine Collingwood, Nolan Jimbo, Stephanie Koch (Curatorial Assembly participant 2022), Adia Sykes, Asha Iman Veal, and Leslie Wilson. This group will convene in the months prior to and following the Forum to identify how the themes advanced in it hold special significance for the Chicago community. Also starting in 2023, participants in the Curatorial Forum will be able to apply for the Barbara Nessim Curatorial Travel Award, a grant of $3,000 given annually to one curator to support their travel and research needs for a project that advances the work of one or more women artists.