59th Carnegie International

Carnegie Museum of Art announces select artist commissions for the 59th Carnegie International. The complete list of artists will be announced in February 2026.

Organized every four years by Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie International is the longest-running exhibition of international art in North America. The 59th edition will be the most collaborative and far-reaching to date—a clear expression of the museum’s founding commitment to the art and artists of our time, at once grounded in our locality and extending globally. Curated by Ryan Inouye, Danielle A. Jackson, and Liz Park, the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curators of the Carnegie International, the 59th edition will engage artists and contributors from around the world, transforming the museum’s programs, partnerships, and spaces in imaginative ways. The International will span visual art, film, performance, theater, and music, underscoring the breadth of approaches shaping contemporary art and creative practice today. By presenting these projects alongside historic works and by collaborating with partner institutions across the city’s North Side and Hill District, the International will highlight art’s invitation to expand perspectives, enter into new conversations and relationships, and explore the many contexts of creative practice today. “While organizing this exhibition,” the curators share, “we have been thinking about ways of being in practice with art—the transmission of social, political, and cultural knowledges, the energy and movement, which all unfold within kindred orders. In meetings with artists, we have found inspiration in artistic languages that affirm existence as a political condition and that share the experience of the geographies we traverse as vast, complex, and dynamic. Working alongside artists, thought partners, and writers, we offer this International as one draft in the coming years that imagines how a twenty-first-century museum may bring people together in conversation and make abundant space for the inner callings and convictions of its publics.”

What to expect:
Installation, Film / Video, Audio / Sound, Multi-disciplinary, Performance / Live Art