Sean Anderson

Sean Anderson was Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) before returning to Cornell as an Associate Professor. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, he has practiced as an architect and taught in Afghanistan, Australia, India, Italy, Morocco, Sri Lanka, and the United Arab Emirates. In 2025, he was the co-curator for the first Qatar national pavilion, Beyti Beytak, at the 19th Exhibition of Architecture at the Biennale di Venezia. In 2023, he curated To Enter the Sky at the Dhaka Art Summit in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At MoMA, he organized the exhibitions Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter (2016–17); Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-89 (2017–18); and four iterations of the Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1. He co-organized with Mabel O. Wilson Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, the first exhibition ever at MoMA to highlight the work of African American and African Diasporic architects. He is a founding member of the Board of Trustees and serves on the Board of Advisors for the African Futures Institute (AFI) in Accra, Ghana. He received a Ph.D. in African Art and Architecture History from UCLA, an M.Arch. from Princeton University, and a B.Arch. and B.Sc. from Cornell University.