How Soft You Want It

Curated by Kexun Zhang

Artists: Santina Amato, Fernando Monroy, Verónica Peña, Barb Smith, Kate Stone

April 18 - May 1, 2024

The School of Visual Arts is pleased to present How Soft You Want It, curated by Kexun Zhang. This exhibition offers an exploration of the quality of softness in different human registers—emotional, physical, and societal—and the resilience it manifests in a time when power and plunder thrive. Featuring five artists whose diverse practices span sculpture, installation, performance, and moving images, How Soft You Want It weaves a collective narrative that highlights the courage to accept vulnerability as crucial to our humanity and to confront suffering, while celebrating our capacity to endure, adapt, and transform ourselves and the world that around us.