Craig Inciardi
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Craig Inciardi

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Craig Inciardi is the founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and began working for the museum in 1991. Inciardi was instrumental in launching the museum and built the institution’s collection from the ground up. He has curated numerous award-winning exhibitions including “Rock Style,” a collaboration with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1999. He also curated major exhibitions on The Rolling Stones, The Who's Tommy, John Lennon, The Clash, Rolling Stone Magazine, and “Louder Than Words,” an exhibition about rock and roll and politics which was a collaboration with the Newseum in Washington, DC. He was also charged with building the collection to open the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Library and Archive. In 2019, Inciardi co-curated “Play It Loud: The Instruments of Rock and Roll” with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has conducted numerous on-camera interviews with artists, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Tom Morello, Taylor Swift, Bono, Ringo Starr, Paul Simon, and former president Jimmy Carter. He is the co-author of Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll which was published by Yale University Press. He is a contributor to the documentary Jimmy Carter: The Rock and Roll President, which was released in 2020. Previously, he worked at Sotheby's auction house in New York, where he developed specialized sales of rock and roll memorabilia and pop culture materials. He graduated from Fairfield University in 1986, where he studied Communications and English.
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