Carnegie International Names 14 Artist Commissions for 2026 Edition

The curators of the 59th Carnegie International have announced the first batch of the artists who will participate in the upcoming exhibition.

These 14 artists and one foundation will present 14 new commissions as part of the exhibition. They include Torkwase Dyson, G. Peter Jemison, Arturo Kameya and Claudia Martínez Garay, Alia Farid, Brooke O’Harra, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi.

The Carnegie International is staged every four years at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The curators of the 59th edition are Ryan Inouye, Danielle A. Jackson, and Liz Park. For this iteration, the International will also include four partner venues were some of the exhibition’s art will be displayed. They are the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the Kamin Science Center, the Mattress Factory, and the Thelma Lovette YMCA in Pittsburgh’s Historic Hill District.

“The 59th Carnegie International—the most collaborative and far-reaching to date—will invite expansive inquiry into the art and ideas that define our moment as well as forge affiliations to realize new works by artists from around the globe,” Carnegie Museum director Eric Crosby said in a statement. “At the heart of this ambition are major commissions and deepened partnerships, both initiated to welcome new publics, perspectives, and possibilities.”

Dyson will debut an animation in the planetarium at the Kasmin Center, while Arturo Kameya and Claudia Martínez Garay will present a site-specific installation at the Mattress Factory.

The Thelma Lovette YMCA will be activated by Be Holding, an operatic performance work on opening weekend that is a long-term collaboration between poet Roy Gay, composer Tyshawn Sorey, ensemble Yarn/Wire, and O’Harra, who will also organize a learning and tour-making project at the Carnegie Museum.

Sanchayan Ghosh, who is based in Santiniketan, India, will stage workshops at both the Carnegie Museum and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, which will culminate in a long-term, outdoor installation at the latter institution.

At the Carnegie Museum, Brooks Takahasi will seed the the museum’s grounds with a garden of perilla plants, while presenting prints, a custom scent, and workshops inside the museum. Abraham González Pacheco will create a mural, while Cinthia Marcelle will stage an architectural intervention.

The Tokyo-based Sogetsu Foundation, which was established as a school by ikebana master Sofu Teshigahara in 1927, will create a large-scale ikebana installation in collaboration with the Sogetsu Pittsburgh Study Group focused on Teshigahara’s international vision for his school of ikebana arrangements. The International will also include paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and calligraphy by Teshigahara.

As part of his commission, Jemison will present a series of new paintings about Irving, New York, where he was raised, as well as organize an update to a 1975 exhibition he curated of Haudenosaunee artists. He will transport the work of the seven artists he has invited—Jay Carrier, Katsitsionni Fox, Hayden Haynes, Tom Huff, Craig Marvin, Diane Schenandoah, and Randee Spruce—in a cargo van, which will be parked outside the museum during the exhibition’s run.

“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,” the International’s three curators said in a statement. “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.”

The partial artist list follows below. (The full artist list of around 50 participants will be announced early next year.)