SVA’s Curatorial Practice Program Trains Curators with a Hands-on Approach

Curatorial Fellows, MA Curatorial Practice, School of Visual Arts (photo courtesy Birdie Piccininni, 2016)

Adam Weinberg, Tania Bruguera, Maria Lind, Shirin Neshat, Hou Hanru, Jessica Morgan, Adam Kleinman, Ghalya Sadaawi, Thierry de Duve, Vasif Kortun, Christiane Paul, Philip Tinari, Joan Jonas, Terry Smith, Saskia Bos, Glenn Ligon, Gabi Ngcobo, José Roca, Pablo Helguera, Sarah Demeuse, Brian Kuan Wood, Joshua Decter, Dara Birnbaum, Mark Beasley, Anne Barlow, David Ross, Kate Fowle, Charles Renfro, Xiaoyu Weng, and Stéphane Aquin … These international curators, directors, artists, writers, and theorists are among the faculty and speakers who we have hosted at SVA’s MA Curatorial Practice program, close by New York’s Chelsea art district.

The program’s collaborations with the Swiss Institute, Independent Curators International, Triangle Workshop, artinfo.com, the Zurich University of the Arts, and other international institutions have led directly to exhibitions and publications that students add to their professional CVs. Past students have held internships at MoMA, MoMA PS1, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Kitchen, KW in Berlin, Bold Tendencies in London, SALT in Istanbul, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore, and many other leading museums and art centers.

SVA’s Curatorial Practice Program trains curators with a hands-on approach. Students work directly with leading curators, making exhibitions and other curatorial ventures, and delving into history and theory, while doing thorough practical training in curatorial practice. Upcoming events include the special series of panels titled “Local Address,” focusing on specific, urgent cultural and sociopolitical situations today and featuring the directors of institutions from Johannesburg, Bogotá, Beijing, Barbados, and Beirut.

For more details about the program, visit macp.sva.edu.