Is it morning for you yet?

If you are an art or education professional who would like to attend the professional preview of Is it morning for you yet?, 58th Carnegie International on September 23, 2022, click here to register. 

Is it morning for you yet?, the 58th Carnegie International, traces the geopolitical imprint of the United States since 1945 to situate the “international” within a local context. This framework prepares a historical ground for the movements of images, ideas, objects, and people that incite emancipatory expressions and artworks. The exhibition brings together an ensemble of erratic, cunning, unruly, disobedient, undisciplined, and intractable attitudes and gestures that overwhelm the ambition of any one organizational intent. 

The 58th Carnegie International borrows its title from a Mayan Kaqchikel expression, when instead of saying “Good morning,” it is customary to ask, “Is it morning for you yet?” The question acknowledges that our internal clocks are different; our anxieties, troubles, and heartaches are not the same. When it is morning for some, it might still be night for others. 

New works and commissions alongside historical works—from the collections of international institutions, estates, and artists­—negotiate transnational networks of artistic solidarity and the multigenerational weight of our entangled inheritances. The artworks in the exhibition motivate ideas that hold in balance the aims of resistance and representation with the desire to reconfigure our ways of life and being together.

Is it morning for you yet? was developed in a global pandemic that upended our collective and individual lives. During this time, we experienced solitude and solidarity as one. It made us consider how we spend our time or how we share it with each other—how to be contemporary. Following the work of more than 100 artists, the exhibition traces a practice of reconstitution, reminding us that while our histories of pain and longing bind us, our narratives of defiance and survival help us reimagine the world. 

View participating collectives, institutions, estates, and artists here.

Opening weekend program
On Saturday, September 24, Carnegie Museum of Art welcomes visitors, artists, and colleagues to view the exhibition for the first time and gather for a compelling program of events by participating artists. Audiences will be treated to the first public presentation of a new work by Malcolm Peacock and performances by Ali Eyal and Christian Nyampeta. Offsite commissions include works by artists Tony Cokes, James “Yaya” Hough, and terra0. 

Curatorial team
The 58th Carnegie International is organized by Sohrab Mohebbi, the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator, and associate curator Ryan Inouye with curatorial assistant Talia Heiman.

The curatorial research and process was enriched by the Curatorial Council: Freya Chou, Pablo José Ramírez, Renée Akitelek Mboya, and Robert M. Ochshorn; and curatorial advisors Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Renan Laru-an.

Support
The 58th Carnegie International, presented by Bank of America, is made possible by leadership support from Kathe and Jim Patrinos. Major support is provided by the Carnegie International Endowment, The Fine Foundation, the Jill and Peter Kraus Endowment for Contemporary Art, and the Carnegie Luminaries. Significant support is provided by Teiger Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Susan J. and Martin G. McGuinn Exhibition Fund, and the Keystone Members of the Carnegie International. The 58th Carnegie International has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

About the Carnegie International 
Established in 1896, the Carnegie International is the longest-running North American exhibition of international art. Organized every four years by Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie International presents an overview of how art and artists respond to the critical questions of our time. The 58th Carnegie International, which will run from September 24, 2022 through April 2, 2023, brings together new commissions, existing works, and projects by established and emerging artists working internationally, domestically, and locally. The exhibition, which will be accompanied by a publication, will transform galleries and public spaces in the museum and occupy sites and engage publics in various Pittsburgh neighborhoods. 

Since the first Carnegie International, the museum has acquired hundreds of works of art that have appeared in the exhibition series, including works by Josef Albers, Dara Birnbaum, Louise Bourgeois, Mary Cassatt, Nicole Eisenman, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Mike Kelley, Ellsworth Kelly, Louise Lawler, Agnes Martin, Julie Mehretu, Joan Miró, Bruce Nauman, Chris Ofili, On Kawara, Sigmar Polke, Auguste Rodin, Doris Salcedo, John Singer Sargent, Hiroshi Sugimoto, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. 

Prizes awarded to Carnegie International artists include the Carnegie Prize for outstanding achievement in the exhibition in the context of a lifetime of work, and the Fine Prize for an emerging artist in the exhibition.