Corinne Erni is the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art and Education, and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY, which she joined in 2016 as Curator of Special Projects. She has 25 years of experience in creating art programs that engage local communities and resonate globally. Curatorial projects include Another Justice: US is Them with Hank Willis Thomas and For Freedoms (2022); Set It Off, curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas (2022); Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim (2021); Barthélémy Toguo: The Beauty of Our Voice (2018); and Artists Choose Artists (2016, 2019), a juried exhibition series focused on mentorship among renowned and emerging East End artists. Inter-disciplinary projects include the climate change symposium Water—A (Re) Source of Inspiration (2018) and OptoSonic Tea (2019), an immersive sound and projections performance. In 2023, she is organizing the Museum’s yearlong 125th anniversary exhibition Artists Choose Parrish, featuring 41 internationally renowned artists with deep roots to Long Island’s East End who will select works from the collection to be shown along with their own. Erni is leading the strategy of the Dorothy Lichtenstein ArtsReach Fund, established by Agnes Gund, the Parrish’s initiative on art and social change. Earlier, Erni led the New Museum’s Ideas City, a collaborative platform exploring the future of cities with arts and culture as driving forces in New York City, Istanbul, and São Paulo. She is co-founder of ARTPORT_making waves, a global curatorial platform on art and climate change. A native of Switzerland, Erni is fluent in six languages and holds a master’s in journalism, cultural reporting, and criticism from New York University.

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