Opening Day Talk: What is Impact?

Beginning with Extended Sensibilities (1982), his groundbreaking New Museum exhibition on LGBTQ art, for more than forty years NYC-based curator and writer Dan Cameron has combined an independent practice with senior curatorial positions at museums, including the New Museum, CAC New Orleans, and Orange County Museum of Art. Along with publishing hundreds of museum, book, and magazine texts on contemporary art, he has personally organized more than a hundred museum exhibitions, including retrospectives of Martin Wong, David Wojnarowicz, William Kentridge, Faith Ringgold, Cildo Meireles, Carolee Schneemann, Carroll Dunham, Peter Saul, and Paul McCarthy, among others. He has served as artistic director for numerous international biennials, including Istanbul, Taipei, Kansas City, and Cuenca, Ecuador. In 2007, Dan founded Prospect New Orleans, the contemporary art triennial to benefit the city after Hurricane Katrina, and was the artistic director of its first two editions. Cameron is also a longtime member of the Hermitage’s National Curatorial Council.