Join Locust Projects for the return of its acclaimed CURATOR TALKS speaker series, presented by Vivant.

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 If the word we: 59th Carnegie International and curator of international art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, a role he was appointed to in 2023 after serving as associate curator of Is it morning for you yet?, the 58th Carnegie International. Prior to his work in Pittsburgh, Inouye served as senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates, where he curated solo and group exhibitions and co-organized Active Forms, the 2018 edition of the annual March Meeting, which inspires dialogue around developments in contemporary art and culture. Prior, Inouye held the post of associate curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2014–2015), which featured new works, site-specific commissions, and performances, and held curatorial positions at New York’s New Museum, where he stewarded artist residencies, curatorial collaborations, and discursive programming, such as the Museum as Hub initiative and the 2012 New Museum Triennial: The Ungovernables. Previously, he served as curatorial assistant at REDCAT in Los Angeles. Inouye was the recipient of a Foundation for Art Initiatives grant and earned an MRes in Curatorial/Knowledge in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.