TYLER CANN

Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA)

Appointed in 2022, Tyler Cann is the Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Following curatorial positions in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Cann most recently served as the Acting Chief Curator, Director of Exhibitions, and Pizzuti Family Curator of Contemporary Art at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Among over 40 exhibitions he has helped organized, Cann was a co-curator of Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989, the catalog for which earned a 2020 Curatorial Award for Excellence from the American Association of Museum Curators. For CMA’s permanent collection, he led the acquisition of work by artists including Melvin Edwards, Catalina Ouyang, Baseera Khan, John Edmonds, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Trevor Paglen, Yuji Agematsu, Kim Dingle, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Thomas Lanigan Schmidt, and David Wojnarowicz. In Honolulu, Cann has reinstalled HoMA’s collection gallery of Impressionism, served as organizing curator for Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love, and acquired the work of Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Upcoming projects include the exhibition of Kapulani Landgraf: ‘Au‘a. Cann holds degrees in art history from the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University.