John Tain has been appointed as the director of curatorial affairs at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. He will oversee the museum’s curatorial department and work with the museum director, Eric Crosby, to help shape the institution’s artistic program and contextualise its collection.
Following a decade as curator for modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, John Tain became head of research at Asia Art Archive (AAA) from 2017 to 2023. His projects included MAHASSA (2019–20), a collaboration with the Dhaka Art Summit and the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University; the exhibition Crafting Communities (2020); the Art Schools of Asia seminar and symposium (2021–22) and AAA’s contribution to documenta fifteen (2022). He served as curator of the third Lahore Biennale in 2024. He is also co-editor for the Intersecting Modernisms project, council member of Asia Forum and advisor to the Hauser & Wirth Institute and the Flow of History: Southeast Asian Women Artists project.
Tain will begin the role on 8 December.
