The next Chicago Architecture Biennial opens on Sept. 19, 2019, and on Tuesday, the festival organizers announced that local curator Yesomi Umolu will be the festival’s artistic director.
Umolu is the exhibitions curator at the University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. For the biennial, she plans to highlight emerging firms and “explore creative responses to shifting spatial conditions at local, regional, and international levels,” according to a press release. The biennial’s curators are scheduled to be announced in the next few months.
“Having my roots in the field of architecture, spatial questions have always been an important consideration of my work with contemporary artists, architects, and urbanists from across the world,” Umolu said in the press release.
Last year’s artistic directors were Sharon Johnston, FAIA, and Mark Lee, founding partners of the architecture firm Johnston Marklee, based in Los Angeles.
