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Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the 2028 Boston Public Art Triennial @thetriennial
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Boston, meet your next triennial.

Please join us in welcoming the curatorial team that is shaping Triennial 2028:
• Risa Puleo will lead the exhibition’s overall artistic and curatorial vision as artistic director and chief curator
• Sam Rauch will help shape the exhibition as curator
• Boston-based Jeffrey De Blois of @icaboston and Audrey N. Lopez of @rosekennedygreenway both bring distinct relationships with local artists, communities, and cultural organizations as special projects curators
• Jasper Sanchez, assistant curator at The Triennial, will lead opportunities for local artists through the Public Art Accelerator

Together, Risa and the curatorial team will make Boston come alive through public art from May to November 2028—and it’s closer than you think!

📷: (1) Nour Ballout, (2) Fadl Fakhouri, (3) Mel Taing, (4) Zach Mendez, (5) Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano

#BostonArt #PublicArt #Publicartcity by @risapuleo

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From St. Louis to Boston, curator Risa Puleo pushes public art beyond the expected and into the extraordinary.

Recently named artistic director and chief curator of Triennial 2028 in Boston, Risa’s work will continue to support community collaboration while breaking new ground. Her thoughtful innovation is evident in her time as co-curator of the 2023 Counterpublic Triennial in St. Louis, where, in response to the city’s landscape, she explored how public art can resist restaging reoccupation and evade surveillance systems.

Scroll ➡️ for a glimpse of the transformative public art that Risa brought to St. Louis in 2023, and the possibilities that Boston can expect in 2028.

“Free Soil Party” by @jackie_sumell explored the movements of people along the Mississippi River, including fugitive enslaved people and freemen and women. Through a three-part material intervention, the project gathered bricks that had been taken from the homes of St. Louis’s Black community, and returned them to their rightful place.

jackie sumell, “Free Soil Party.” Commissioned by Counterpublic. Photographer: Micah Mickles.

In “(a river) will flow,” X used light and sound to reshape a developed area along the Mississippi River back into the river’s design. The project asked viewers to consider their relationship with the river and impact on its future.

X, “(a river) will flow.” Commissioned by Counterpublic. Photographer: Jon Gitchoff.

@ravenchcn brought attention to and questioned the spaces in which music and art are performed through two artworks. “Music for 13 Paths,” challenged the spatial organization of St. Louis’s State-Street neighborhood with an intervention in the 12-note octave.

Raven Chacon, “Music for 13 Paths.” Commissioned by Counterpublic. Photographer: Tyler Small.

For “Drum Grid”, drummers responded to sounds heard across the neighborhood. In both performances, communities found each other through sounds outside of the watchful eyes of cameras surveilling the neighborhood.

Raven Chacon, “Drum Grid.” Commissioned by Counterpublic. Photographer: Tyler Small.

“Future Ancestral Technologies: Roaming” by
@cannupahanska was an augmented reality overlay t by @risapuleo

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Yesterday, we announced the Triennial 2028 curatorial team. We’ve seen and heard your heartfelt comments (and the dream team/Avengers comparisons ❤️‍🔥) and can’t help but agree: this team will transform Boston.

Composed of artistic director and chief curator Risa Puleo, curator Sam Rauch, special projects curators Jeffrey De Blois and Audrey N. Lopez, and assistant curator Jasper Sanchez, the team will create art experiences that spark connection. They’ll both celebrate and expand what is possible in Boston. Most importantly, they’ll shape an exhibition that is free and open to all.

Check back soon: this is just the beginning.

#publicart #publicartcity #Bostonart by @risapuleo

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Artist talks and meets
With Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González, Mark O’Gorman and Risa Puleo
Accompanied by artworks from Stuart Whipps and John Carson

Ireland House
401 North Michigan Avenue, suite 1500
Wednesday 8 April, noon
Doors open at 11.20am, with light lunch served
Follow the link in our bio to register for the event

Join at Ireland’s Consulate in downtown Chicago to meet participating artists and guests in our 2026 programme. The event foregrounds three key cultural voices and inspirations for Askeaton Contemporary Arts’ activities.

Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González of Hyde Park Art Center, is a multi-hyphenate artist and administrator with over 15 years of experience working with community art organizations, orchestrating multidisciplinary programs, and supporting artists in a career-changing capacity.

Independent curator Risa Puleo makes exhibitions about how artists intervene in social structures. In collaboration with the 2023 Counterpublic Triennial in St. Louis and Native film collaborative, New Red Order, she supported the rematriation of a sacred site back to Osage Nation. She teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mark O’Gorman was the inaugural curator and producer of visual art at The Complex, a multi-disciplinary arts centre in Dublin’s north inner city, since 2018. Mark has presented exhibitions and events featuring artists including Jeremy Deller, Vivienne Dick, Aleana Egan, Jaki Irvine, Sean Lynch, and Locky Morris.

In addition, Stuart Whipps’ video Askeaton Hands will be screened, a 2025 portrait of the local Askeaton community and John Carson’s American Medley (1981-86) embodying a tour to fifty locations in the United States famed in popular music.

@cultureireland @expochicago @irelandchicago @citrus.history @risapuleo @mark_o_gorman @hydeparkartcenter @michelehorrigan_ @seanlynch31 @weecarrick @s_whipps @patrickodonovan_td
#expochicago #acaontheroad #irelandchicago #expochicago2026 #acapublic #onlyinaskeaton #askeatoncontemporaryarts taken in Consulate General of Ireland, Chicago by @risapuleo

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Grey spotted woodpecker taken in Ravenswood, Chicago by @risapuleo

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Excited one of a group of curators and artist collaboratives organizing the next @counterpublic triennial in St. Louis, alongside @msallisonglenn
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@dreamthecombine
#newredorder (@selledesong @zackkhalil @jacksonpolys )
Thank you: @jamesxmcanally, Lee Broughton, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Cheeraz Gorman, and @theluminaryarts

#counterpublic2023
#stlmade

Posted @withregram • @counterpublic by @risapuleo

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Contemporary constellations. Each plane is approx. five miles apart by @risapuleo

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Ice land by @risapuleo

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I’ve become a birdwatcher during quarantine. Snowy owls and bald eagles winter in Illinois. This week I went in search of both and instead saw a “college” (but also a “conclave” or a Vatican”) of cardinals and some Canadian geese. taken in Starved Rock State Park by @risapuleo

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Woodpecker by @risapuleo

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Tiara Roxanne @tea_r_raw @levetonjacobh by @risapuleo

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Love to all the single moms by @risapuleo

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