Curators Marina Chao & Adam Ryan on Curation and Community Engagement
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Curators Marina Chao and Adam Ryan discuss the Upstate Photography Biennial and the curatorial process behind contemporary photography exhibitions.
Curators Marina Chao & Adam Ryan (CPW) join PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf to discuss the inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial and the curatorial process behind this major contemporary photography exhibition. Chao, Ryan, and Wolf explore how CPW develops exhibitions with both the local community and broader audience in mind, building meaningful public engagement, and what artists can do to establish and sustain relationships with photography and arts organizations. https://cpw.org Marina Chao has previously held curatorial positions at the International Center of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As assistant curator at ICP she organized the exhibition Multiply, Identify, Her (2018) and contributed to the publication Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self (Aperture and ICP, 2018). She was awarded a 2019 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for a project exploring the intersections of image, language, and technology. Adam Ryan is a photography specialist and curator based in Poughkeepsie, New York. He gained experience working at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he…
People in this episode
Host: Sasha Wolf
Guests: Marina Chao, Adam Ryan
Topics covered
- curation
- community engagement
- photography exhibition
- Upstate Photography Biennial
- public engagement
- artist relationships
Keywords
- curation
- photography
- community engagement
- exhibition
- artists
- public engagement
- Upstate Photography Biennial
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CPW, International Center of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Places: Poughkeepsie, New York
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