The members of the 1999 Carnegie International Advisory Committee are among the most engaged and widely respected members of the international art community. They have advised the curator, Madeleine Grynsztejn, on the contents of the show and constitute the jury for the Carnegie International Prize. As outstanding leaders in the contemporary art world, each committee member greatly enhances the development of the 1999 Carnegie International.

International Jury of Award, 1930
(Henri Matisse seated at left)

1999 Carnegie International Advisory Committee Biographies

Okwui Enwezor
Artistic Director of Documenta, Kassel, Germany
Nigerian born poet and critic Enwezor is the adjunct curator of Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago. His writing has appeared in numerous art magazines as well as exhibition catalogues including Future, Present, Past (47th Venice Biennale). Enwezor was the artistic director of the 1997 Johannesburg Biennial and curator of In Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present (Guggenheim Museum, New York) and Global Conceptualism/Local Contexts (Queens Museum of Art, New York). He served as a juror for the Guggenheim Museum's 1998 Hugo Boss Prize.

Susanne Ghez
Director of The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
During Ghez's 25-year tenure at the University of Chicago, she has organized over one hundred exhibitions of established and emerging contemporary artists. She has also served as guest curator for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Artists Space, New York. Since 1979, Ghez has served in consulting and advisory positions for numerous institutions, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards; The National Endowment for the Arts; The Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Lars Nittve
Director of the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London
Born in Sweden, Lars Nittve was formerly director at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humblebaek, Denmark. Additional positions have included senior curator and acting director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and founding director of the Rooseum in Malm, Sweden. Nittve has served as correspondent for Artforum and written and edited numerous publications about contemporary art. Recent curatorial projects include Sunshine and Noir - Art in LA 1960-1997 and NowHere. Nittve has served on over 20 boards and juries over the past ten years, including the Venice Biennale; the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London; Site Santa Fe, New Mexico; the DAAD, Berlin; and the Philip Morris Art Award, Japan.