Photo by Ally Caple
Anna Harsanyi is a curator, educator and arts manager. She is dedicated to presenting art in a non-art context and creating sites that invite participation from audiences outside of the art community. Her projects explore the visual culture, political potential, and social choreography of everyday life.
She recently worked as Associate Curator at Creative Time, where she led CTHQ, a gathering space for art and political engagement; and was part of the curatorial team of the Creative Time Summit 2024 States of Emergence: Land After Property & Catastrophe. Independently, she has organized projects presenting artist engagements within the historic Essex Street Market in New York's Lower East Side; developed cross-cultural projects about friendship and dreams in Saint Petersburg, Russia and Seoul, South Korea, respectively; presented a screening series of artist films engaging with visual culture and re-enactments; commissioned projects exploring hidden or dormant histories for The New School Centennial; and collaborated with Sheetal Prajapati on a series of events centered around play. In 2014, she co-curated with Roxana Bedrule Hot & Cold: Revolution in the Present Tense, a public art project in Timișoara and Cluj, Romania which presented three artist projects responding to the 25th anniversary of the Revolution that ended Communism.
Anna has taught at New School University and New York University, and has worked in education and public engagement roles at the Art Encounters Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, A Blade of Grass, and the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is currently the Paris Curatorial Fellow at KADIST.