Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro and Xiaoyu Weng have been added to the curatorial team for Documenta 16, scheduled to open 12 June 2027 through 19 September 2027.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Acevedo-Yates is the Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at MCA Chicago and has worked as a curator, researcher and critic across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.
Across the harbour, the Chicago-born Crawford is a professor of visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago whose research examines how race and ethnicity relate to American visual culture, particularly in art, film, and photography.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Rodríguez Castro is a writer and former Research Fellow at The John F. Kennedy Institute of Northamerican Studies (Freie Universität Berlin, 2018). She has published texts on Joy James and Audre Lorde, among others, and has contributed writing to Amant Foundation, De Appel, Dia Art Foundation, MACBA, Social Text, The Poetry Project, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Université des Antilles, and Yale University.
Born in Shanghai and based in New York, Weng is a writer and curator. Until recently, she was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada, and prior to that served as the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
‘I admire their independence of spirit and thought, characterized by a deep respect for artists and audiences alike,’ Beckwith said in a statement. ‘We look forward to exploring the diverse fields of contemporary artistic practices together and engaging in dialogue with the pressing questions shaping our planet’s social and cultural landscapes and their futures.’
The announcement marks the first all-female creative team in the embattled quinquennial’s history.
