CURATOR TALKS: Ryan Inouye

Since its founding in 2013, Locust Talks has become one of Miami's premier platforms for engagement with contemporary curatorial thinking. Now returning home to Locust Projects, CURATOR TALKS presents four curators per season — a mix of emerging and established voices — who share their curatorial vision and practice, the artists and ideas that fuel their work, and how they support artists across institutional and non-traditional contexts.

A defining feature of the CURATOR TALKS series is its commitment to meaningful local exchange: each visiting curator participates in studio visits with Miami-based artists, offering vital critical feedback and professional visibility to the city's creative community. This direct artist engagement remains central to the series' mission of broadening access to contemporary curatorial practice beyond major art centers.

Ryan Inouye is Kathe and Jim Patrinos Co-Curator of the 59th Carnegie International: If the word we (2026–27) and Curator, International Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, a role he was appointed to in 2023 after serving as associate curator of the 58th Carnegie International (2022–23). He is also a member of the curatorial team of the upcoming 37th Bienal de São Paulo (2027). Prior to these posts, Inouye was senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates and associate curator of Sharjah Biennial 12 (2014–15). He has held curatorial positions at the New Museum, New York and REDCAT, Los Angeles. Inouye holds an MRes in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, London and a BA in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.