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.

Margot Norton is Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), where she leads the curatorial team and oversees the exhibition program. At BAMPFA she curated the exhibition Gabriel Chaile: No hay nada que destruya el corazón como la pobreza, on view through April 13, 2024. Norton was previously Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, where she recently co-curated the 2021 New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone; Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined; and Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente. At the New Museum, she has also curated solo exhibitions with Carmen Argote, Judith Bernstein, Diedrick Brackens, Pia Camil, Sarah Charlesworth, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Chris Ofili, Goshka Macuga, Nathaniel Mellors, Laure Prouvost, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Kaari Upson and Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, among others, and group exhibitions including The Keeper, Here and Elsewhere, and NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. In 2017, she curated the Eighth Sequences Real Time Art Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Georgian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with artist Anna K.E. She also serves on the editorial council of Museums Moving Forward (MMF), an intergenerational, cross-institutional coalition of art museum professionals committed to advancing equity across the museum field. Before joining the New Museum in 2011, Norton was a curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has contributed to and edited numerous publications and exhibition catalogues, and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York.

Norton will discuss her approach to curating through examples of select recent exhibitions and the 2021 New Museum Triennial, as well as plans for future programming at BAMPFA. Register here.