The MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts gives you professional hands-on training with a faculty of renowned curators and guests from around the world to fully prepare you with the skills and knowledge you need to get hired as a professional in the field. Scholarships are available for your training in our two-year master's degree program. Have questions about your application to make it stand out? Drop into our Zoom Q&A session to chat with Chair Steven Henry Madoff, who will walk you through the application and answer all of your questions.

Attendees will receive an $80 application fee waiver if they apply for Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 admission. Note: This waiver will be applied to the email address used to register for this event. It is important to use the same email address consistently throughout the entire application process.

Please note that we welcome individual meetings on Zoom or in-person to discuss the application and the program.

SVA wants to ensure persons with disabilities have access to this event. If you are a person with a disability who requires accommodations to access or participate in this event, please reach out to the MA Curatorial Practice department at macp@sva.edu or to SVA Disability Resources disabilityresources@sva.edu at least 7 business days prior to the event.

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Join us Saturday, December 7th at the 136 W 21 Street building to learn all about the SVA Graduate Programs! This information session and open house will provide prospective students with valuable insights into the diverse array of graduate programs that the School of Visual Arts offers. During this event, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the various programs, meet the department chairs, and receive program brochures and materials. Several programs will also provide tours of their state-of-the-art studios.

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The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners, is hosted by Kate Fowle, faculty member of the MA Curatorial programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Minerva Cuevas creates research-based projects that encompass installation, street interventions, muralism, and sculpture. Her work explores notions of civilization and progress, identifies resistance implicit in everyday life, and questions our political imaginary. Through her projects, she provides insights into economic and political organizational structures in the social sphere and facilitates channels of social communication. Cuevas founded Mejor Vida Corp. in 1998 and the International Understanding Foundation (IUF) in 2016, and has collaborated on projects providing telecommunications access to indigenous communities. Her work is held in collections such as the Tate Gallery; Centre Georges Pompidou; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Museum Ludwig; Museo Jumex; and Van Abbemuseum. She is based in Mexico City.

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The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners, is hosted by Kate Fowle, faculty member of the MA Curatorial programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Kambui Olujimi challenges established modes of thinking that function as inevitabilities. His practice spans sculpture, installation, photography, writing, video, and performance. By excavating the language and aesthetics of social, historical, and cultural conventions, he brings them out of the implicit, giving them gravity, weight, and shape, revealing their incongruities and illusory nature. Olujimi’s works have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sharjah Biennial 15, 14th Dak’Art Biennale, and Kunstmuseum Basel. His work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. He is based in New York.

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The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners, is hosted by Kate Fowle, faculty member of the MA Curatorial programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Jesse Krimes is a multimedia artist whose work explores societal mechanisms of power and control, with a focus on criminal and racial justice. He is the founder and director of the Center for Art & Advocacy, the first national organization dedicated to supporting justice-impacted creatives. Krimes also led a successful class-action lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase for charging formerly incarcerated individuals predatory fees after their release from prison. This fall, Krimes has exhibitions opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Jack Shainman Gallery. He won an Emmy Award for his documentary Art and Krimes by Krimes. His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Kadist Foundation, Bunker Artspace, and the Agnes Gund Collection. He is based in Pennsylvania.

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Hear from the head of the MA Curatorial Practice program about every aspect of our program in the center of New York City. Our rigorous training in practice, history, and theory will prepare you for your professional work in the curatorial field. Attendees will receive an $80 application fee waiver if they apply for Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 admission. Note: This waiver will be applied to the email address used to register for this event. It is important to use the same email address consistently throughout the entire application process. Please note that we welcome individual meetings on Zoom or in-person to discuss the application and the program.

SVA wants to ensure persons with disabilities have access to this event. If you are a person with a disability who requires accommodations to access or participate in this event, please reach out to the MA Curatorial Practice department at macp@sva.edu or to SVA Disability Resources disabilityresources@sva.edu at least 7 business days prior to the event.

Register here. If you have questions regarding this event please email us at macp@sva.edu.

The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners, is hosted by Kate Fowle, faculty member of the MA Curatorial programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Suchitra Mattai, a multidisciplinary American artist of Indo-Caribbean descent, creates mixed-media paintings, sculptures, and installations that shed light on untold histories. She frequently incorporates processes and materials once associated with the domestic sphere, such as embroidery, sewing, weaving, and found clothing, to honor the labor of women. This fall, Mattai will open an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Her works are in public and private collections, including the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Nasher Museum of Art; Tampa Museum of Art; Joslyn Art Museum; Crocker Art Museum; Portland Museum of Art; and University of Michigan Museum of Art. She is based in Los Angeles.

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The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners, is hosted by Kate Fowle, faculty member of the MA Curatorial programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Angel Otero’s practice spans painting, collage, and sculpture, through which he experiments with innovative techniques to create abstract works centered on memory, identity, and lived experiences. He is best known for his Oil Skin works, where oil paint is applied to glass and peeled off to create layers that are reassembled into new images. Probing the boundaries of figuration and abstraction, Otero’s recent works serve as psychological anchors for his explorations into the ambiguous and magical. His works are included in the collections of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Margulies Collection, Miami, FL; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Istanbul Modern; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He divides his time between New York and Puerto Rico.

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As we navigate a world marked by humanitarian and climate crises, societal divides, and economic uncertainties, the role of art institutions is more critical than ever. Yet to truly matter, museums and galleries have to evolve beyond their traditional practices, embracing more inclusive, adaptive approaches to engage audiences as creative participants in addressing the urgent issues of our times. This panel brings together distinguished cultural innovators to explore how these spaces can transform into dynamic hubs where diverse and unexpected communities converge and meaningful exchanges unfold. Join us for a bold conversation about reimagining art institutions as vital forces for change in our rapidly transforming society.

Tom Finkelpearl, previously Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Executive Director of the Queens Museum, is currently a consultant for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Kate Fowle, former director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, is currently Curatorial Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth, New York. Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, specializing in contemporary art, film, and video. She recently co-curated the Whitney Biennial. Christina Yang is an independent curator who has held curatorial roles at the Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, Williams College Museum of Art, The Kitchen, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Queens Museum. Kate, Chrissie, and Christina are all faculty member of MA Curatorial Practice. Işın Önol is Director of Curatorial Research in the MA Curatorial Practice program.

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The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners, is hosted by Kate Fowle, faculty member of the MA Curatorial programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

An artist, director, writer, and organizer, Edgar Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations, video, and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between implausible relations. He directed his first play in 2015, for which he was awarded the Malcolm McLaren, Best of Show Award. His latest play premiered in the US in 2023. His work is in museum collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum Ludwig, the Hammer Museum, and Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, among others. Recognized as a national leader in the arts, Arceneaux also serves on the board of Creative Capital. He is based in Los Angeles.

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Hear from the head of the MA Curatorial Practice program about every aspect of our program in the center of New York City. Our rigorous training in practice, history, and theory will prepare you for your professional work in the curatorial field. Attendees will receive an $80 application fee waiver if they apply for Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 admission. Note: This waiver will be applied to the email address used to register for this event. It is important to use the same email address consistently throughout the entire application process. Please note that we welcome individual meetings on Zoom or in-person to discuss the application and the program.

SVA wants to ensure persons with disabilities have access to this event. If you are a person with a disability who requires accommodations to access or participate in this event, please reach out to the MA Curatorial Practice department at macp@sva.edu or to SVA Disability Resources disabilityresources@sva.edu at least 7 business days prior to the event.

Register here. If you have questions regarding this event please email us at macp@sva.edu.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Hou Hanru is a prolific art critic, writer, and curator based in Paris and Rome. He was the Artistic Director of MAXXI (National Museum for 21st Century Arts), Rome (2013-2022). He has curated over 150 exhibitions across the world, including biennales and triennials in Johannesburg, Venice, Shanghai, Gwangju, Guangzhou, Tirana, Istanbul, Lyon, Auckland, etc. From 1997 to 1999, he co-curated “Cities On The Move” with Hans Ulrich Obrist, which toured from Secession, Vienna to CAPC/Arc-en-rêve, Bordeaux; MoMA PS1, New York; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek; Hayward Gallery, London; Bangkok city; and Kiasma, Helskinki. He is an advisor to numerous cultural institutions, including the Times Museum, Guangzhou; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He frequently contributes to journals on contemporary art and culture, and he lectures and teaches in numerous international institutions. His books include Hou Hanru (Utopia@Asialink, and School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, 2014), On Mid-Ground (English version published in 2002, by Timezone 8, Hong Kong, and Chinese version published in 2013, by Gold Wall Press, Beijing), Curatorial Challenges (conversations between Hou Hanru and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, in Art-It magazine as “curators on the move,” Japan, 2006-2012, Chinese version, Gold Wall Press, Beijing, 2013).

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The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

For this session of the Curatorial Roundtable, Nam will talk about what she calls “curating for places and spaces,” discussing her work at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center, Ballroom Marfa, and the Wattis. She’ll discuss the ways she’s worked with artists she has exhibited in terms of physical space, historical context, and audience.

Daisy Nam is the director and curator of CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco. From 2020 to 2022, she served as director and curator of Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary art space dedicated to supporting artists through residencies, commissions, and exhibitions. From 2015 to 2019, she was the assistant director at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. From 2008–2015, she produced seven seasons of talks, screenings, performances, and workshops as the assistant director of public programs at the School of the Arts, Columbia University. Nam’s curatorial residencies and fellowships include: Marcia Tucker Senior Research Fellow at the New Museum, New York (2020); Bellas Artes, Bataan, Philippines (2020); Surf Point in York, Maine (2019); Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea (2018). She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and lectured at Lesley University, Northeastern, SMFA/Tufts, and SVA as a visiting critic. She co-edited the publication Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts with Paper Monument in 2021.

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The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Katerina Gregos is an art historian, curator, and educator. Since 2021 she has been the artistic director of EMΣT | The National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Athens. For over 20 years, her curatorial practice has explored the relationship between art, society, and politics, with a particular focus on questions of democracy, human rights, economy, ecology, crisis, and changing global production circuits. Gregos has curated numerous large-scale international exhibitions and biennials including, among others, the 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (LV, 2018); the 5th Thessaloniki Biennial (GR, 2015); the Göteborg International Biennial (SE, 2013), Manifesta 9 (BE, 2012); and the Fotofestival Manheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg (DE, 2011). She has also curated three critically acclaimed national pavilions at the Venice Biennale: Croatia (2019), Belgium (2015), and Denmark (2011). In addition, Gregos has curated exhibitions for the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin; BOZAR, Brussels; the Central Museum, Utrecht; Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg; the Kunsthalle Tallinn; and La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, among many others. Her texts have been published by Yale University Press, Duke University Press, Hatje Cantz, J R Ringier, Phaidon, Mousse, and Distanz, among others. Since 2016, she has also served as curator of the Visual Arts program of the Munich-based non-profit Schwarz Foundation. Her program for ΕΜΣΤ this year focuses on a series of exhibitions under the umbrella title Why Look at Animals?, inspired by John Berger’s seminal text on the human–animal relationship.

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The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Axel Wieder is the new director of the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Previously, he was the director of Bergen Kunsthall, where he oversaw a widely acclaimed, interdisciplinary program with an international purview and local roots that encompassed exhibitions, live projects, and a broad event and outreach program. In his work, Wieder focuses on the history and theory of exhibitions, architecture, and social space, as well as on questions of political representation. His work seeks to expand art institutions to become open spaces in which art can be shown in connection with adjacent areas of society and with attention to different practices and discourses. Under his leadership, the program of Bergen Kunsthall succeeded in attracting new audiences through collaborations and an ambitious program. From 2014 to 2018, Wieder was the director of Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm and before that, from 2012 to 2014, served as the head of program at Arnolfini in Bristol, UK. He was responsible for the program of Ludlow 38 – Goethe Institute in New York from 2010 to 2011 after being responsible as artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart from 2007 to 2010. In 1999, he founded Pro qm, a bookshop and discourse platform, together with Katja Reichard and Jesko Fezer in Berlin.

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Hear from the head of the MA Curatorial Practice program about every aspect of our program in the center of New York City. Our rigorous training in practice, history, and theory will prepare you for your professional work in the curatorial field. Attendees will receive an $80 application fee waiver if they apply for Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 admission. Note: This waiver will be applied to the email address used to register for this event. It is important to use the same email address consistently throughout the entire application process. Please note that we welcome individual meetings on Zoom or in-person to discuss the application and the program.

SVA wants to ensure persons with disabilities have access to this event. If you are a person with a disability who requires accommodations to access or participate in this event, please reach out to the MA Curatorial Practice department at macp@sva.edu or to SVA Disability Resources disabilityresources@sva.edu at least 7 business days prior to the event.

Register here. If you have questions regarding this event please email us at macp@sva.edu.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

In recent years, Venegas has dedicated her efforts to international contemporary art, working on exhibitions and projects across various regions in cities such as Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Gwangju, and San Francisco. She has focused on supporting and commissioning work by artists locally and internationally. This talk will delve into recent exhibitions, the commissioning process, and curatorial work as an act of dialogical care, emphasizing the importance of building trust and relationships with artists. Additionally, it will cover the experience of managing and working with various teams across institutions—both large and small—including artists, production teams, and galleries.

Jovanna Venegas currently serves as curator of SculptureCenter in New York, where she is organizing projects with Alexa West and ASMA. From 2017 to 2023, she was associate curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. During her time there, she curated New Work: Fernando Palma Rodríguez (2023) and Bay Area Walls: Liz Hernández (2021), and co-organized New Work: Wu Tsang Presents Moved by the Motion (2021); Shifting the Silence (2022); the 2022 SECA Art Award; and Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales (2023-2024). Additionally, she served as curatorial advisor for the Whitney Biennial 2022 on the U.S./Mexico border region and has contributed to projects and exhibitions at MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo) and La Tallera, both in Mexico City. Venegas holds a BA in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts, New York.

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The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Enrique Juncosa will speak about three of his recent exhibitions: Black Light, Secret Traditions in Art since the 1950s, at CCCB, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in 20018; Joan Miró, Absolute Reality, Paris 1920-1945 at the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2023); and Miquel Barceló, We are All Greek at the Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, Barcelona in 2024.

Enrique Juncosa is a Spanish writer and a curator. He was the director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin between 2003 and 2012, a task for which he was granted the Order of the Civil Merit by the Spanish Government. Before this, he was the deputy director of the Museo Reina Sofía Madrid and IVAM, Valencia (Spain). Juncosa has published two books of short stories, nine collections of poems, and many essays on contemporary art. He has curated nearly 80 exhibitions in museums all over the world with artists such as Willem de Kooning, Joan Miró, James Coleman, Terry Winters, Joana Vasconcelos, Bhuppen Khakhar, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Dorothy Cross, Juan Uslé, Miquel Barceló, Susana Solano, Joana Vasconcelos, Philip Taaffe, Martin Puryear, Francesco Clemente, Sakiko Nomura, and Nalini Malani.

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The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

For this talk, Filipa Ramos will present the 8th Biennale Gherdeina (2022) and the First Vienna Climate Biennale (2024), which will function as case-studies to interrogate forms of curating and the challenges curators face when commissioning time-based media in non-urban contexts, such as environmental concerns and the recognition and promotion of the rights of nature.

Filipa Ramos, PhD, is a writer and curator. She is Lecturer at the Arts Institute of the HGK/FHNW, Basel. Her research focuses on how contemporary art engages with nature and ecology. Ramos has been curator of the Art Basel Film sector (2020-24) and a founding curator of the online artists’ cinema, Vdrome (since 2013). Current projects include BESTIARI, the Catalan representation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024) and the arts, humanities, and science festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (since 2018, with Lucia Pietroiusti). In 2024, she curated Songs for the Changing Seasons for the 1. Klima Biennale Wien (with Pietroiusti) and in 2022, Persons Persone Personen, the 8th Biennale Gherdëina (with Pietroiusti). In 2021, she co-curated Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale (with Andrés Jaque, Pietroiusti, Marina Otero Verzier, and Mi You). Ramos was Editor-in-Chief of e-flux criticism (2013-20), Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal (2009-11), and contributed to documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She authored Lost and Found (Silvana Editoriale, 2009) and edited Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016). Her upcoming book, The Artist as Ecologist, will be published by Lund Humphries in 2025.

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The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Dr. Christine Eyene is an art historian, critic, and curator. She is Research Curator at Tate Liverpool and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University. Her curatorial practice encompasses contemporary arts with a particular interest in African and Diaspora arts, feminism, photography, and sound art. Since 2021, she has been developing independent research on the theme of botanical histories and colonial legacies, connecting ancestral and collective knowledge in an evergreen forest bordering the rural town of Lolodorf, in the south province of Cameroon, where she is currently building an art residence. Eyene is curator of Landskrona Foto Festival 2024’s Konsthall exhibition. Recent exhibitions include: Seeds and Souls, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023-24); Calling in Question, American Arts Center, Casablanca (2022); Breaking the Mould – New Signatures from DRC, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London (2021); RESIST! The 1960s, Photography, and Visual Legacies, Summer of Photography, Bozar, Brussels (2018). Her writings are published in art books, exhibition catalogues, and art journals.

Drawing from two of her feminist exhibitions, Where We’re At! Other Voices on Gender (Bozar, Brussels, 2014) and Sounds Like Her (New Art Exchange, Nottingham, and touring, 2017-2020), Eyene will discuss her feminist curatorial practice from a Black perspective, and how this has enabled her to address questions of marginalization, the politics of space within art institutions, and ways to complexify feminist artistic discourses beyond visual representation through the immateriality of sound art. Register here.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Currently working between New York and Berlin as curator-at-large for Performa, Defne Ayas has previously served as a director, co-director, curator, and advisor to several cultural institutions and research initiatives, including Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art) (2012-2017), Arthub Asia, the New Museum, and V-A-C Foundation.  At Performa, Ayas recently presented Protest and Performance: A Way of Life (with Kathy Noble, 2023), which included performances by Gregg Bordowitz and Pamela Sneed, Rana Hamadeh, and Göksu Kunak. She also co-organized Sonic Tonic Assembly (with publics). Ayas co-curated the 13th Gwangju Biennale (with Ginwala) in 2021, the 6th Moscow Biennale in 2015, and the 11th Baltic Triennale in 2012. Ayas is a founding curator of Blind Dates (with Neery Melkonian), which addresses the traces of the peoples, places, and cultures that once constituted the diverse geography of the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922). Her latest curatorial endeavor, Sarkis: 7 Days, 7 Night, was on view at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden until February 2024. Register here.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Yuko Hasegawa is the director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and professor of curatorial and art theory at Tokyo University of the Arts. Hasegawa's past positions include: Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo from 2006 to 2020 and Chief Curator and Founding Artistic Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa from 1999 to 2006. Hasegawa was a board member of Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District Authority from 2009 to 2011 and has remained a member of the Asian Art Council at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York since 2008. She is also a member of the Istanbul Biennale Advisory Board.

Hasegawa is known for her work in various biennales, including the 7th Moscow Biennale (Curator, 2017), 11th Sharjah Biennale (Curator, 2013), 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture (Artistic Advisor, 2010), the 29th São Paulo Biennale (Co-Curator, 2010), the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Co-Curator, 2006), and the 7th Istanbul Biennial (Curator, 2001). Her recently curated exhibitions include Feminisms (2022), looking at pluralistic feminisms through the lens of contemporary art since the 1990s, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Olafur Eliasson: Sometimes the river is the bridge (2020), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Fukami: A Plunge into Japanese aesthetics, Hotel Salmon de Rothschild, Paris (2018); Japanorama: New Vision on Art Since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz (2017); and Kishio Suga: Situations, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2016). She is also the artistic director of the Inujima Art House Project. Hasegawa was a member of the juries that selected Doris Salcedo (2019) for the Nomura Art Award; and Salcedo (2016), Isa Genzken (2019), Michael Rakowitz (2020), Senga Nengudi (2023), and Otobong Nkanga (2024) for the Nasher Prize. Register here.

As AI continues to weave its influence into the art world's fabric, understanding its multifaceted impact becomes increasingly essential. This panel unites three influential curators to explore the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and cultural curation. Joasia Krysa, co-creator of the project, The Next Biennial Should Be Curated by a Machine, envisions a future of curatorial practices from which AI emerges as a “self-learning human-machine system.” Nora N. Khan, a critic and the author of the forthcoming book, AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism, discusses how computation reframes traditional humanistic approaches to art and its interpretation. Helen Starr addresses how digital systems, including AI, shape our behavior, sometimes beyond our conscious awareness. She emphasizes the critical roles of community, healing, and learning within the realm of digital art. This discussion offers a synthesis of technological observations and curatorial expertise, shedding light on the transformative nature and challenges of AI within the contemporary artistic landscape.

The conversation will be moderated by Isin Onol, Director of Curatorial Research at MA Curatorial Practice, School of Visual Arts. Register Here.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Anca Rujoiu is a curator and editor living in Singapore. As curator of exhibitions and later head of publications (2013–18), she was a member of the founding team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore contributing to the institution’s numerous exhibitions, public programs, and publishing projects. She worked closely with the Centre’s Founding Director, Ute Meta Bauer, to align the institutional infrastructure holistically with the curatorial program. The initial three-year overarching program, Place.Labour.Capital., built connections across research, residencies, and exhibitions with artists Simryn Gill, Allan Sekula, Trinh T. Minh-ha, to name a few. Rujoiu was the co-editor of several publications including, the artist’s books Thao Nguyen Phan: Voyages de Rhodes (2018) and Simryn Gill & Michael Taussig: Becoming Palm (2017). In 2019, she was the co-curator of the third edition of the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara, approached as a one-year institutional program. As part of the curatorial initiative, FormContent in London, Rujoiu worked on a nomadic project, It’s Moving from I to It (2012-2014), that took the format of a script comprised of seventeen “scenes”: exhibitions, workshops, commissioned texts, and the like. She is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Melbourne. Drawing on feminist methodologies, her PhD research, First-Person Institutions, focuses on institution-building, artists’ archives, and transnational imaginaries across the Asia-Pacific region. Whether working in a contemporary art center, an independent space, an art school, or in the context of a biennial, Rujoiu has been passionate about decentering curatorial practice and stretching the possibilities of how cultural production can be made public, experienced, discussed, or written about. Register here.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Magdalena Moskalewicz, PhD, was the Chief Curator of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art at the time of its sudden closing last month. For this session of the Curatorial Roundtable, Moskalewicz will discuss a selection of her past exhibitions that investigated histories, localities, and identities of postsocialist Eastern Europe and her own geopolitical positioning and agency as a curator. An art historian, author, and editor, Moskalewicz has engaged in the revisionist rewriting of art histories and in exploring parallels between the postsocialist and postcolonial conditions through both academic publications and curatorial practice. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Moskalewicz has worked at collecting, exhibiting, and academic institutions internationally, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for C-MAP, MoMA’s global research initiative; the 56th Venice Biennale, where she curated the Polish Pavilion; and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she taught and mentored artists and arts administrators. Her recent writing includes contributions to Magdalena Abakanowicz (Tate 2022), Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions (Routledge 2023), and Was Socialist Realism Global? (MSN 2024). Register here.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Alexandre Melo is Professor of Sociology of Art and Culture at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and a curator and art critic. Since the early 1980s, he has written for publications such as Jornal de Letras (Lisbon), Expresso (Lisbon), El País (Madrid), Flash Art (Milan), and Parkett (Zurich). He is a regular contributor to Artforum (New York). Melo has curated exhibitions in Portugal and abroad: 10 Contemporary, Serralves Museum, Porto; Eduardo Batarda, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon: Venice Biennial—Julião Sarmento; São Paulo Biennial—Rui Chafes / Vera Mantero; Portugal Novo, Pinacoteca São Paulo, etc. His recent exhibitions include Liquid Skin - Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Joaquim Sapinho, MAAT, Lisbon; Roi Soleil—Albert Serra, Galeria Graça Brandão, Palácio Pombal, Lisbon; E pluribus unum—Douglas Gordon, Miroslaw Balka, Rui Chafes, Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo; 1000 Imagens—John Baldessari, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, Renee Greene, Pratchaya Phintong, Rosângela Rennó, Wantanee Siripatananunthakul, Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon; Life, Still Life—Cristina Iglesias, Lia Chaia, Vasco Araujo, Galeria Presença, Porto. Melo was the curator of the contemporary art collections of the Ellipse Foundation and the Banco Privado for Serralves. He has served as Cultural Counselor in the Portuguese government (2005/2011).

Melo will discuss his exhibition How Many Worlds Are We?, which took place July 20 through October 29, 2023, in Bangkok, along with other projects.

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Behind AI's advancements lies a tapestry of human interactions, troves of user-generated data, and labor, often unseen but foundational. As AI's capabilities continue to expand, this conversation peels back AI's layers, revealing its human and environmental core beyond the code. How do automation technologies like AI impact the future of labor and the labor market? If AI is perceived as a new "black box" – a layer of abstraction that obscures the underlying physical and human resources, rendering them invisible and replaceable – how might this affect the evolution of social class relations and the emergence of new social conflicts?

Artist Stephanie Dinkins, intrigued by the potential bond between artists and socially engaged robots, envisions technological ecosystems rooted in care and equity. Vladan Joler, renowned for his detailed mappings of the unseen infrastructures within AI systems, brings to light the intricate web of human narratives and environmental impacts concealed within these technological advancements. His work, a profound dissection of the algorithmic ecosystem, underscores the hidden labor and resources that are AI's unseen backbone, drawing attention to the broader socio-political and environmental implications, as well as the power dynamics interwoven within these systems. Artist Josh Kline, focusing on labor and class, examines the significant effects of climate change, automation, and the erosion of democracy.

The conversation will be moderated by Isin Onol, Director of Curatorial Research at MA Curatorial Practice, School of Visual Arts. Register Here.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Matt Williams is the Public Programme curator at Camden Art Centre. He has organized numerous monographic, group exhibitions and public programmes nationally and internationally to develop a unique portfolio of cultural initiatives and interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of art and society in conversation with creative practitioners, academics, publishers, and independent organisations. Register here.

Join us for this thought-provoking panel discussion that highlights the intersections of technology and aesthetics within the framework of what is known as “Adversarial Aesthetics.” Joanna Zylinska, an artist and media philosopher acclaimed for her provocative text, AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams, will explore the algorithmic state of perception outlined in her latest book, The Perception Machine, while calling for a reevaluation of the artist's role in the digital era. Nadja Verena Marcin, the creator of #SOPHYGRAY, a feminist voice bot, will speak about her innovative approach, combining technology and feminist discourse. Trained to hold conversations about identity, art, and feminism. #SOPHYGRAY answers questions in a surprising, philosophical, and humorous way from various feminist perspectives, adding a unique layer to our understanding of digital communication. Alongside them, Rosemary Lee, an artist and media researcher whose work examines the narrative of art and technology, will share insights from her forthcoming book Algorithm, Image, Art, and her new project, A Structural Plan for Imitation. These leading voices shed light on how digital technologies influence and are influenced by cultural narratives, ethical considerations, and artistic innovation, offering their perspectives in an increasingly algorithmic world. The conversation will be moderated by Isin Onol, Director of Curatorial Research at MA Curatorial Practice, School of Visual Arts. Register Here.