Anna Carnick is a writer, curator, and design consultant. Collaborating with creative partners around the globe, she creates exhibitions, installations, public art, texts, and cultural programs that connect and inspire.
Exhibitions, fairs, and public art
Berlin · September 2026
A new group exhibition inspired by the profound cognitive shift astronauts experience gazing back at Earth from space. As borders disappear, the interconnected nature of our world comes into focus. The exhibition asks: Must one leave planet Earth to understand how intertwined our fates are?
5VIE · Milan Design Week
Hand-built ceramic figures presented in dialogue with the museum’s historic Cavallerizze.
The Foundry · Berlin Art Week
An exhibition about the relationships between material practice, makers, and the communities around them.
Palazzo Litta · Milan Design Week
A meditation on migration, memory, and the precarious passage between home and elsewhere.
Design Miami · Curatorial Director
A fair-wide curatorial framework examining design’s role in a rapidly changing world.
5VIE · Milan Design Week
An exhibition and fundraiser bringing objects, affection, and social purpose into one shared room.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
A platform for emerging voices and practices expanding the language of collectible design.
Miami Design District
Drawing on the visual language and communal energy of Miami Carnival, Germane Barnes created rocking seating, wind chimes, and a suspended dome animated by light and sound. The installation honored the BIPOC communities central to Miami’s polyethnic culture.
Miami Design District
Responding to the curatorial brief “Comfort and Joy,” Studio Proba and Enjoy the Weather transformed the district into an interactive physical and virtual playground. Colorful sculptures, seating, ornamentation, and augmented reality invited visitors of all ages to create, connect, and play.
Miami Design District
Created by Chilean design studio gt2P, interactive playground-inspired objects translated human energy into movement, reactive shadows, and kinetic effects. The installation paired the carefree pleasure of play with a reminder that every action affects our communities and environment.
Books, articles, and editorial leadership
Essays, profiles, and features
Editor & Contributing Writer · Hatje Cantz
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious fair’s online magazine · 2020–24
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Contributing Writer · Rizzoli
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Anna Carnick × Estefanía de Ros × Association La Alianza
Transforma Workshops empowers vulnerable women and girls through hands-on creative workshops. Conceived with designer Estefanía de Ros and produced in partnership with nonprofit Association La Alianza, the initiative launched in Guatemala City in June 2026.
Anava Projects × Design Miami × Books & Books Literary Foundation
A fundraiser supporting the right to read in response to reactionary book bans across the US and beyond. Creatives from around the globe designed limited-edition prints inspired by some of the most challenged titles, with proceeds benefiting the Books & Books Literary Foundation.
“Free people read freely.” — Tracie D. HallView project ↗
Anava Projects × Bocci × Design Miami
A design-community fundraiser created to support urgently needed, on-the-ground relief efforts in Ukraine through GlobalGiving’s Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund.
View project ↗Anava Projects × Design Miami
A design-led fundraiser that raised more than $30,000 through one-of-a-kind and limited-edition works donated by the creative community. All proceeds supported GlobalGiving’s COVID-19 Relief Fund, directing crucial resources to the evolving frontlines of the crisis worldwide.
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Talks, workshops, juries, and community building
Anna Carnick is a writer, curator, and design consultant whose international practice spans exhibitions, installations, public art, editorial projects, events, and cultural programming. Her work has been presented at Design Miami, Milan Design Week, Berlin Art Week, the Miami Design District, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, and other leading creative and cultural platforms.
She is cofounder of Anava Projects, a creative agency supporting designers and projects centered on social and environmental awareness. From 2020 to 2024, Carnick served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Design Miami’s The Forum and led the fair’s philanthropic efforts; in 2023, she was Design Miami’s Curatorial Director. Her earlier editorial roles include work with Aperture Foundation and Assouline, among others.
Across her work, Carnick explores the storytelling power of art and design, nurtures emerging talent and community, and champions the belief that good design can—and should—make a positive impact.
Visit anavaprojects.com ↗Select honors and coverage
Finalist · Excellence in Art & Design Curation
T Magazine GermanyBlick von oben: “The Overview Effect” at Berlin Art Week ↗
Wallpaper*Bocci and Anna Carnick join forces on evocative design practices in Berlin ↗
HubeAnna Carnick and Johannes Schoen: Design as Dialogue and Care ↗
Elle Decor Italia“Gesto creativo”: JŌMON at Milan Design Week 2026 ↗
Stir WorldNifemi Marcus-Bello highlights the precarity of migrant journeys ↗
WhitewallAnna Carnick curates “Where We Stand” for Design Miami ↗
