"Laura Hoptman is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and sole curator of the 2004 Carnegie International. While Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Hoptman curated the critically praised show Drawing Now: Eight Propositions. She has curated exhibitions and projects on Yayoi Kusama, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Elizabeth Peyton, John Currin, Luc Tuymans, and others."