SVA MA Curatorial Practice

Join us this Thursday, 12/12, at 9AM EST for an Application Q&A!

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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.

Join us on Zoom for The Artists Roundtable: Minerva Cuevas, Tuesday, 12/3, at 5:00pm EST.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-artists-roundtable-minerva-cuevas-tickets-1008746847977?aff=oddtdtcreator

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.

Some shots 📸 from “Embraceable,” curated by Anajoara Eom featuring work by Shaohan Fang, Pei Ou, Sunmin Park, and Raisul Tintin!







November 6 - November 20, 2024
CP Projects Space, 132 West 21st Street, 10th floor, New York, NY

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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Join us on Zoom for The Artists Roundtable: Kambui Olujimi, Tuesday, 11/26, at 5:00pm EST.

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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.

Join us on Zoom for The Artists Roundtable: Jesse Krimes, Tuesday, 11/19, at 5:00pm EST.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-artists-roundtable-jesse-krimes-tickets-1008741522047?aff=oddtdtcreator

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.

Check out some highlights from “Bold Outlines: Celebrating SVA’s Graduate Programs” and last Friday’s opening reception! Congratulations to everyone who participated in and contributed to this exhibition, featuring works by alumni and students from more than a dozen of SVA’s graduate programs. Bold Outlines is curated by Daniela Marin Aristizábal , an independent curator and MA Curatorial Practice thesis student, and Lotte Marie Allen , an MFA Computer Arts advisor and faculty member. The exhibition will be on view through Wednesday, November 27, at the Flatiron Gallery, 133 West 21st Street, New York City. This show also celebrates the opening of the College’s new Graduate Center, a dedicated facility for all graduate students, staff, and faculty, where they can meet, congregate, and inspire one another’s respective practices.

“Bold Outlines” highlights the interconnectedness of various fields, including visual art, design, social practice, illustration, moving images, and more, underscoring the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in today’s artistic landscape. It invites viewers to explore the threads and throughlines that bind these disciplines, reflecting on how different artistic practices can complement and enhance one another.

Join us on Zoom Thursday, 11/14, at 10am EST for an Info Session!

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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.

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Join us on Zoom for The Artists Roundtable: Suchitra Mattai, Tuesday, 11/12, at 5:00pm EST.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-artists-roundtable-suchitra-mattai-tickets-1008733187117

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 currently has 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.

On 11/16/24 in Boston, join our combined School of Visual Arts graduate departments for an in-person portfolio review and information session. Get feedback on your work, learn all about our curriculum, SVA campus life and our new interdisciplinary degree options.

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Join us on Zoom for The Artists Roundtable: Angel Otero, Tuesday, 11/5, at 5:00pm EST.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-artists-roundtable-angel-otero-tickets-1008726376747

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.

Chair of MA Curatorial Practice, Steven Henry Madoff, gives keynote speech at the National Gallery Prague in partnership with the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague on November 1 for the conference "Art In Between Times."

Národní galerie Praha | Národní galerie Praha Nejstarší kulturní instituce v ČR, která spravuje největší a nejvýznamnější uměleckou sbírku na našem území.

SVA presents “Bold Outlines: Celebrating SVA’s Graduate Programs,” an exhibition of works by alumni and students from SVA’s more than a dozen graduate programs, curated by Daniela Marin Aristizábal (Independent curator and MA Curatorial Practice thesis student) and Lotte Marie Allen (MFA Computer Arts advisor and faculty).

Opening: November 8, 6:00- 8:00pm EST

SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133 West 21st Street, New York City

On view Friday, November 8, through Wednesday, November 27

This show also celebrates the opening of the College’s new Graduate Center, a dedicated facility for all graduate students, staff, and faculty, where they can meet, congregate, and inspire one another’s respective practices.

“Bold Outlines” highlights the interconnectedness of various fields, including visual art, design, social practice, illustration, moving images, and more, underscoring the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in today’s artistic landscape. It invites viewers to explore the threads and throughlines that bind these disciplines, reflecting on how different artistic practices can complement and enhance one another.

More info here: https://sva.edu/events/mfa-computer-arts-fall-2024

Please join us Wednesday, November 6th at 6pm for “Embraceable” curated by Anajoara Eom featuring work by Shaohan Fang, Pei Ou, Sunmin Park, and Raisul Tintin!

Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 6, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
November 6 - November 20, 2024
CP Projects Space, 132 West 21st Street, 10th floor, New York, NY
Monday - Friday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, weekends by appointment

CP Projects Space at the School of Visual Arts is pleased to present “Embraceable,” curated by MA Curatorial Practice student Anajoara Eom. “Embraceable” is a group exhibition about the intricate emotions bound up in parent-child relationships. Setting aside simplified judgments, the artists focus on the complex and vulnerable nature of the highly individual dynamics between parent and child.

Reflecting on how neglectful parenting can affect one’s perception of love and belonging, Shaohan Fang presents the “Portrait of a Family” series with a short film and stills. Through this series, she expresses her longing for love amidst neglect and loneliness. In Pei Ou’s drawings and paintings, the artist creates a metaphorical tree-trunk figure that accumulates layers of trauma and healing within family relationships, intending to be a means of catharsis for viewers. Sunmin Park explores the evolving roles of her mother and herself in the self-refective project “Motherhood,” which includes a portrait photograph and a short video, and invokes the complicated feeling of being at once overshadowed and inevitably drawn to emulating her mother. Using photographs from his parents’ family album and his own memoir, Raisul Tintin confesses what he had hoped for in his relationship with his parents. Taking on the unique form of a series of partially opened and sealed envelopes, his ongoing project titled “Confessions of a Son” preserves memories while serving as a form of confession.

“Embraceable” invites viewers into a space of intimacy where difficult feelings, which often go unsaid and are hard to express, are welcome—perhaps finding new ways to understand and articulate these charged emotions.

Join us Wednesday, October 30th IN PERSON at 6 PM EDT, The Future of the Museum panel discussion at MA Curatorial Practice, 132 West 21st Street, New York, NY, 10th floor. Free and open to the public.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-the-museum-tickets-1045037002807

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 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 members of MA Curatorial Practice. Işın Önol is Director of Curatorial Research in the MA Curatorial Practice program.

Join us on Zoom for The Artists Roundtable: Edgar Arceneaux, Tuesday, 10/29, at 5:00pm EDT.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-artists-roundtable-edgar-arceneaux-tickets-1012850602417

The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners, is hosted by Kate Fowle, Curatorial Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth and faculty member of the MA Curatorial Practice program 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.

Get intense practical training as a curator and join our growing network of alumni who have gone on to work in major museums, art galleries, auction houses, cultural centers, corporate collections, international biennales, and more. Apply to SVA’s MA in curatorial practice! More info here: https://sva.edu/admissions/how-to-apply/graduate-application-requirements/curatorial-practice