SVA MA Curatorial Practice

Film screening:
RNG (2025), dir. by Redacted Cut
8pm - 10:30pm
Location: Pfizer Building, Old Lobby space, 1st floor
630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Free entrance

Please use the back entrance from Tompkins Street if you arrive after 8 pm.

This screening is part of the exhibition Present Continuous curated by Diana Sardaryan.

Join us next Wednesday, April 29, 2026, for the next Curatorial Roundtable on Zoom with Kay Watson.

Kay Watson is a curator, producer, and researcher working at the intersection of art and technology, with a focus on photography, video games, and emerging media. She is Head of Arts Technologies at the Serpentine Galleries in London, where she leads programs that bring artists into dialogue with cutting-edge digital tools, infrastructures, and networks. In addition to her curatorial work, Watson serves as a trustee for Brighton Photo Fringe, Mediale, and The Photographers’ Gallery, contributing to the development of the broader visual arts ecosystem in the UK.

Join us next Wednesday, April 22, 2026, for the next Curatorial Roundtable on Zoom with Astrid Peterle.

Dr. Astrid Peterle is the chief curator of Museumsquartier Vienna. From 2022 to September 2025, she was the Head of the Curatorial Department at the Kunsthalle Wien. There, she curated the exhibitions of the Kunsthalle Wien Prize (2022 and 2023), which is awarded annually to graduating students of the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 2010 to 2022, Peterle worked at the Jewish Museum Vienna, becoming chief curator in 2018. While at the Jewish Museum Vienna, she took over the curatorial direction of the new conception of the permanent exhibition, Our Middle Ages! The First Jewish Community in Vienna at Museum Judenplatz (2018–2021). From 2017 to 2022, she also served as the curator for performance at the Donaufestival Krems. She is a widely published author on contemporary art and Viennese cultural history, with a particular focus on performance art, choreography, film, photography, and feminist art practice.

Peterle will present insights into how her curatorial practice was shaped by a rather unusual curatorial biography, moving from a cultural-historical institution with a collection to contemporary performance art in a festival context, as well as from a contemporary art production house to commissioning public art in the MuseumsQuartier Vienna, which is one of the largest districts for contemporary art and culture in the world. She will reflect on how the breadth of her education and professional experience informs her understanding of curating in different institutional contexts, as well as the challenges of enabling while operating inside these frameworks, constantly working toward the openness that we all talk about in the art world, but which is still a long way off.

We are thrilled to announce the presentation of four exhibitions curated by our first-year students, in addition to the thesis shows.

April 16 - 30, 2026
630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Reception: Thu, Apr 16; 6:00 - 9:00pm

N30_iD011z, curated by Justin Apice, Colleen Dalusong, Kiera McIntosh, Naomi Moser, and Diana Sardaryan, proposes that contemporary digital culture has produced emergent structures that parallel, and in some cases displace, traditional systems of religious meaning-making. The artists in the exhibition gesture toward this emergent condition, positioning the digital image as a vessel for devotion, dependence, and disillusionment.

诗学 poetics 시학 , curated by Arthur Channon, Romy Cohen, Sung Hyun, Chaieun Lee, and Hongjin Zhou, traverses conditions of liminality and disorientation, exploring the tangled limits of communication and miscommunication in our techno-social culture. Each artist’s works in the exhibition echo the others, drawing attention away from choral notions of immediacy toward an intricate cacophony of the opaque layers between one self and another.

a good convergence, curated by Arthur Channon, seeks to evoke an aesthetic shudder in which the subject loses its traditional footing and vanishes into the material reality of the work. By blurring lines between personhood and place, this invites us to imagine new ways of inhabiting space, proposing that viewers engage as a totalizing whole, a lived bodily experience of the sculptures presented in which the internal logic of the works give way to the contingencies of their physical presence.

Present Continuous, curated by Diana Sardaryan, examines how contemporary artists respond to the tension between grief and irony, intimacy and detachment, realness and spectacle. The works reflect a generation’s attempt to make sense of a world that often feels beyond comprehension, politically charged, environmentally fragile, and digitally overexposed. Together, they form a space in which uncertainty becomes a shared experience and the possibility of feeling remains, even in the midst of noise. The public program includes a screening of Eugene Kotlyarenko’s The Code.

Join us for the opening of our end-of-year exhibitions on Thursday, April 16, from 6:00–9:00 PM. It will takes place at 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. This year, MACP presents three thesis shows curated by the graduating class: Sophie Barfod, Kyle Colon, and Anajoara Eom.

Join us next Wednesday, April 8, 2026, for the next Curatorial Roundtable on Zoom with Frankie Su.

Frankie Pochi Su serves as the Deputy Director of the New Taipei City Art Museum. With an M.A. (Distinction) from the University of Essex, Su has held leadership and curatorial positions across some influential institutions in Taiwan and China. Her experience spans the foundational years of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) and the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, as well as the directorship of Hong-gah Museum in Taipei. A former Senior Curator at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) and a long-standing board member of the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Su has also been a key conceptual collaborator for the artist collective, Luxurylogico.

In her lecture, Su will share her experiences in shaping and organizing the Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (TIVA), a prestigious biennial hosted by Taipei’s Hong-gah Museum. As a vital hub for contemporary media, TIVA explores the evolving boundaries of video art through diverse themes, fostering a global dialogue between international creators and Taiwan’s vibrant artistic community. She will also share her thoughts about the online platform "Net.Open," which was launched at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum as an unconventional art project for an art institution.

Join us next Wednesday, April 1, 2026, for the next Curatorial Roundtable on Zoom with Marie de Brugerolle.

Marie de Brugerolle is a curator, author, and dramaturg. Challenging linear history, her work investigates the margins, entangling theory and practice. Gossip, speculative archives, and re-enactements are part of her method. She is a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Lyon. De Brugerolle is internationally recognized for her scholarship on the artist Guy de Cointet, having authored key publications and organized major exhibitions and re-enactments that reintroduced his work to contemporary audiences. These include Who’s That Guy? (MAMCO Geneva, 2004) Who’s That Guy? (2010) and the documentary film under the same title in 2011. Since 2011, she has deployed a theoretical framework, "Post-Performance Future," to investigate the impact of performativity on the visual arts. The book Post-Performance Future, Method was published in 2023 (T&P Publishing, Paris) and celebrated at the Pompidou Center, Paris (Liv®e Live, October 2024). de Brugerolle lectures regularly at UCLA and the Royal Academy in London and Oxford). She contributes to Art Press, Mousse, Flash Art, and to catalogs, such as Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit, 2024/2025. de Brugerolle's novel, Polyspherus, was published in 2021 (Ishtar, Brussels). In 2025, she curated WORD IS ROUND (Frac Nantes.) She is the guest editor of Transatlantique - John Baldessari (ER Publishing, Paris, 2025).

Join us next Thursday, March 25, 2026, for the next Curatorial Roundtable on Zoom with Simon Kelly.

Simon Kelly, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum since 2010, recently curated the exhibition, Matisse and the Sea (2024), which examines the significance of the sea across Modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career. Previously, he curated Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape (2023). Kelly has published extensively on 19th- and early 20th-century French art, including the recent book Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market (Bloomsbury, 2021). Additionally, he has published essays in the exhibition catalogues Reckoning with Millet’s ‘Man with a Hoe’ (Getty Art Museum, 2023); Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí (Saint Louis Art Museum, 2020); Monet: the Late Years (Kimbell Art Museum, 2019); Inspiration Matisse (Kunsthalle, Mannheim, 2019); Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market (National Gallery, London, 2015); and Becoming Van Gogh (Denver Art Museum, 2012). In recent years, Kelly has also written on American Abstract Expressionism, including essays in Monet/Mitchell (Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2022) and Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2023), and about contemporary African-American artists, including Kehinde Wiley and Oliver Lee Jackson. He worked previously at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. He received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he also taught art history.

In this talk, Kelly will discuss his most ambitious exhibition to date, Millet and Modern Art, and its relation to a future book project. RSVP link in bio.

Orbiting Empathy: Speculative Encounters with Technological Others

In our continuing series, The Algorithmic State, the MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York is pleased to present an online conversation between the world-renowned artists Xin Liu and Sougwen Chung, who will explore the charged terrain where technology becomes other, collaborator, and narrator. The conversation is organized and moderated by Noam Segal, the LG Electronics Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

This talk will take place on March 26, 2026, 9 AM.

Join us Weds, March 18, 2026, at 9 AM EST for the Curatorial Roundtable with Lilou Vidal, speaking to us on Zoom!

Lilou Vidal is a curator and editor based in Turin. She has curated several monographic and group exhibitions in museums and institutions, including Cambiare la prosa del mondo (Villa Medici, Rome, 2025); The Weight of the Concrete: Ezio Gribaudo in a scenography by Davide Stucchi (Museion Bolzano, 2024, and Grazer Kunstverein, 2023); Ernesto de Sousa - Exercices of Poetic Communication & other aesthetic operators (Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, 2022); Bonaventure (Trafiquer les mondes): 22nd Prize of Fondation Pernod Ricard (Paris, 2021); This Is My Body, My Body Is Your Body, My Body Is The Body of The Word (Le Delta Art Center, Namur, 2019-2020); The Weather is Quiet Cool and Soft (Mu.ZEE, Ostend, 2019, and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2018); as well as curating in commercial galleries, such as Franco Noero (Turin, 2017 and 2025); P420 (Bologna, 2020); gb agency (Paris, 2017); and Barbara Gladstone Gallery (Brussels, 2016), among others.