Ian Cofre is an independent curator, writer, and translator based in Brooklyn, NY.

For nearly twenty years, he has created exhibitions and programs that examine contemporary problems critically and in an interdisciplinary manner. Often working collaboratively, he creates spaces for inquiry through exhibitions and programs that critically examine contemporary problems in an interdisciplinary manner. His main areas of interest are Latin America, systems like the art market, and alternative economies and their modes of art production. From 2019-23, he was Director of PS122 Gallery, a non-profit alternative space in New York’s East Village. Since 2023, he has organized and produced over 40 programs as Director of Programs at the National Academy of Design.

Recent projects include: Raimundo Edwards: Threshold (KSTN / Kastanien Projektraum, Berlin, 2022); Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial, co-curated with Eva Mayhabal Davis (Bronx Museum, 2021-22); i set my face to the hillside (PS122 Gallery, 2022); Héctor Jiménez Castillo: Also today is an omen? (Residency Unlimited, 2019); and, 50 artists across nine venues for MFA Grad Show 3, co-curated with Darren Jones (MICA, Baltimore, 2018). His writing and criticism have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, TUSSLE, artcritical, and Arte al Día, and in catalogs and publications like Bronx Calling (2022) and Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967—2017, edited by Rachel Adams (The MIT Press, Aug 2017), among others. Profiles and reviews of exhibitions and projects he curated can be found in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, The Art Newspaper, Arte al Día International, Cultured Magazine, Billedkunst, and New York Review of Architecture, among other publications.

email: ian [dot] cofre [at] gmail [dot] com

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