Arianna Nourse is an internationally-engaged, independent cultural producer, writer and curator. Her practice aims to broaden our understanding of our world and ourselves through art.
She is currently executive producer of In the Black Fantastic, a speculative fantasy about Black genius by artist julianknxx ft. Ekow Eshun, Tina Campt, Arthur Jafa, Wangechi Mutu and other art and academic luminaries due for release in late 2025.
Previously, Nourse curated A Requiem for Benevolent Beasts, a psychoanalytic two person show of new work by Leyla Faye and Brianna Rose Brooks pushing the cathartic possibilities of collaborative art making; Respectability won’t save you: a Caribbean haunting, the New York solo debut of acclaimed Bajan-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle of newly conceived sculptural-paintings, writings and film that pushed against the contours of middle class respectability politics; and On Error and Continuity: Some Passing Thoughts, which considered the works of Adrian Piper, Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, and Alberta Whittle via the hybrid form of auto-biography, art criticism and poetry for Tiana Webb Evans's Jamaican-New York project Yard Concept.
Following her graduation from Columbia University, Nourse began her career at Phillips auction house in New York, where she became the company’s first Black specialist in contemporary art and photography.
Nourse was the inaugural cultural advisor to Southbank Tower, a residential property in London, and continues to consult on the private collections of numerous high-profile global citizens who wish to remain anonymous.
Nourse is a member of Entre Nous, an invitational association of Black female art dealers founded by White Cube’s Courtney Willis Blair; and sits on the committee of Frieze fair’s Frieze 91 in London. She is the daughter of two artists; the mother of two children; and loves speculative fiction.
