Curate the World.
SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice program is unique in its intense focus on practical training for your professional career.
In the MA Curatorial Practice program (MACP) at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, curatorial studies are always viewed through the lens of making. Immersed in two years of intense training in the heart of New York with leading curators and experts from major city institutions and with guests each week from around the world, our students graduate with all the skills and knowledge required to be hired for professional curatorial work.
Our Courses
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Introductory Critique of Canonical 20th- and 21st-Century Texts (six-week course)
Practicum: Logic and Rhetoric (six-week course)
Practicum: Research Methodologies (four-week course)
Workshop: Exhibition-Making (three-week course)
History Seminar: Modern and Contemporary Art
Case Study: Curating Technology-Based Art (seven-week course)
Philosophy Seminar: Curatorial Practice, Body and World (seven-week course)
Curatorial Roundtable I: Visiting International Curators Program (seven-week course)
Workshop: Critical Writing–Exhibition Analysis
Workshop: Professional Practices (seven-week course)
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Case Study Seminar: Models of Thinking–Curating a Program (seven-week course)
Case Study Seminar: History as Commodity–On the Contemporary (seven-week course)
History Seminar: Post-1945 Transnationalism and the History of Art
Case Study Seminar: Returning the Gaze: Models of Curating Film and Video in Contemporary Art (seven-week course)
Practicum: Exhibition-Making
Curatorial Roundtable II: Visiting International Curators Program
Art Practice
Internship and Fieldwork Program (Summer)
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Case Study Seminar: Hybrid Narratives: Curating Across Disciplines (seven-week course)
Case Study Seminar: Performance and the Museum (seven-week course)
Case Study Seminar: The Expanded Space of Art (seven-week course)
Artists Roundtable (seven-week course)
Curatorial Roundtable III: Visiting International Curators Program (seven-week course)
Museum Studies and New Practices of Feminist Care (seven-week course)
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Workshop: Critical Writing–The Catalog Essay (by appointment)
Curatorial Roundtable IV: Visiting International Curators Program
Final Exhibition/Curatorial Project
Upcoming Events
We return with new events in September
Some Institutions Where Alumni Work
and Have Worked
Americas Society
Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Berlin Biennale
bitforms gallery
Brooklyn Museum
Dia Art Foundation
e-flux
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
ICA London
Independent Curators International (ICI)
Inter-American Development Bank
Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain
Museo Tamayo
National Academy of Design
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
SculptureCenter
Socrates Sculpture Park
Sotheby’s
The Power Plant
The Shed
VIA Art Fund
Visions2030
Wave Hill
