Corinne Erni is the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art and Education, and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY, which she joined in 2016 as Curator of Special Projects. Erni is currently organizing solo exhibitions with Shirin Neshat and Nina Yankowitz in 2025, and Sanford Biggers in 2026. In 2023, she organized Artists Choose Parrish, a yearlong landmark exhibition series and publication celebrating the Museum’s 125th Anniversary, inviting renowned East End artists to pair their work with Parrish collection work. Earlier exhibitions include Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things (2022); Another Justice: US Is Them | Hank Willis Thomas and For Freedoms (2022); Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim (2021); and Barthélémy Toguo: The Beauty of Our Voice (2018). Erni pioneered OptoSonic Tea (2019), an immersive sound and projections performance involving the entire Museum building. She is leading the Dorothy Lichtenstein ArtsReach Fund, established by Agnes Gund, the Parrish’s initiative on art and social change. Prior, Erni led the IdeasCity initiative at the New Museum in New York City, a collaborative, civic, and creative platform exploring the future of cities with arts and culture as driving forces (2010-2015). In 2006, Erni co-founded ARTPORT_making waves, an international organization on art and climate change, and organized the exhibition (Re-) Cycles of Paradise (2009) at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Photo: Ulf Skogsbergh