Curatorial Projects
Photo of Talia Lieber behind installation view of Nick Cave’s Soundsuit, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2015. Photo by Rachel Lieber.
Curatorial Consultant, Art of Peace: New Perspectives in Visual Art on Peacekeeping from the 1990s, 2023-2025.
Assisted with research and planning related to arts of Rwanda for the Australian Research Council Linkage Project funded by the Australian Government with exhibitions of artworks by contemporary artists from Rwanda, Timor Leste, and Bosnia-Herzegovina at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) and the S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney in 2025.
Curator, On Terraced Earth, January 2023.
Curated an exhibition featuring large-scale artworks by Innocent Nkurunziza, a Rwandan visual artist and co-founder of Inema Arts Center in Kigali. Nkurunziza’s artworks were installed on atop a terraced peninsula at Lake Ruhondo with views of Rwanda’s five volcanoes. Nkurunziza painted and sculpted elements of the surrounding landscape using materials from nature, including rocks, bark from trees, and clay from the earth. The installations included three-dimensional forms reminiscent of rivers, volcanoes, anthills, and rocky earth. The exhibition site was accessible by boat, allowing for visitors to immerse themselves in the serene environment that surrounded them when viewing and experiencing the works. Special guest Chef Tamsir Ndir, Senegalese culinary artist, prepared food on-site for visitors to enjoy. Nkurunziza hopes to continue welcoming artists from across the African continent to the site to create and showcase their work.
Press:
Jade Natacha Iriza, “On Terraced Earth: Taking art outdoors.” The New Times. January 19, 2023. https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/4364/entertainment/art/on-terraced-earth-taking-art-outdoors
Olivier Mugwiza, “Exhibition: On Terraced Earth The New Times Rwanda.” The New Times. January 19, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmwe_oGPxAw
Cynthia Butare, “Rwanda's Creative Scene: A Force to Be Reckoned With in 2023.” Imigani. January 15, 2023. https://www.imigani.co/post/rwanda-s-creative-scene-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with-in-2023
Consultant, Kreeger Museum, 2022 and 2023.
Wrote label text for the re-installation of the museum’s African collection of historical objects from the African continent.
Curatorial Assistant, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2015-2017
Assisted Dr. Katy Siegel with research, installation, and planning for Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017. Visited the artist at his studio and consulted on mount-making for the first ever exhibition of his sculptural works.
Assisted Drs. Shannen Hill and Kevin Tervala with research, installation, and planning for Beyond Flight: Birds in African Art; Shifting Views: People & Politics in Contemporary African Art; and Design for Mobile Living: Art from Eastern Africa.
Installation view of Design for Mobile Living: Art from Eastern Africa, 2016. Photo by Talia Lieber