Eduardo Carrera receives 2024 Curatorial Research Fellowship from Independent Curators International

Eduardo Carrera receives 2024 Curatorial Research Fellowship from Independent Curators International

2024 Curatorial Research Fellows: Eduardo Carrera, Dean Daderko, Jason Garcia, and Irlando Ferreira!

232 curators across 38 countries and 27 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico submitted applications for four Fellowship opportunities: Curatorial Research Fellowships for curators of African descent based anywhere in the world and for BIPOC curators based in the United States, both under the Marian Goodman Gallery Initiative in honor of the late Okwui Enwezor; the Indigenous Curatorial Research Fellowship; and the Mississippi River Basin Curatorial Research Fellowship.

ICI’s Curatorial Research Fellowships program reflects the organization’s commitment to the advancement of new knowledge and practices. The program supports curators’ research, travel, and the development of their professional networks, promoting experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement in the field. Conceived to foster independent research, the Fellowships offer a framework tailored to each curator’s field of critical inquiry: Fellows receive mentorship specific to their research interests, as well as $10,000 in financial support. They also have access to ICI’s international networks of collaborators and programs to create opportunities for continued learning.

This year, we are delighted to work with and support the practices of these four curators, whose timely and innovative projects are pushing the curatorial field forward.

Eduardo Carrera (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania): Eduardo Carrera’s research explores LGBTQ+ BIPOC representation and resistance in queer photography from the southern United States, a region intricately linked to Latin America and the Caribbean due to its territorial and cultural proximity. Informed by a selection of work by artists active in the 1970s-80s, through to today – including George Febres, George Dureau, and Judy Cooper, alongside contemporary photographers like Trenity Thomas and Tommy Kha – his Fellowship project examines queer BIPOC experiences and depictions during the HIV/AIDS crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Tracing histories of photography alongside developments in queer culture throughout the American South, Eduardo will mine archives and museum collections. Additionally, he will conduct interviews with curators in order to better understand the integration of queer photography into broader museological narratives of American art history. 

Learn more about Eduardo and his project.