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New York Curatorial Seminar 2024

Jun 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2024

New York, NY, USA

ICI's Curatorial Seminar is a free professional development program that supports emerging curators to advance their practice. It centers a first-person approach to curating, and focuses on strengthening curatorial practices that support overlooked artists and engage with local art communities while working outside of a large institution. This unique program offers opportunities to gain knowledge and resources through ICI’s network, share ideas, and think through developments in one's own curatorial practice. Through this process, the Seminar seeks to build an affirming network of peers who connect around common values, and support the sharing of knowledge among early-career curators.

In the 2024 New York Curatorial Seminar, six New York-based curators will meet monthly from June to September 2024 for discussion-based seminars and site visits across New York, led by ICI staff, guest curators, artists, and arts professionals. Over the course of the Seminar, each participant will also workshop a proposal for a project and receive individual advisement from selected mentors, who provide a unique perspective on the participant's curatorial practice. 

Participants have been selected from nominations by ICI Collaborators. Participants are curators currently based in the New York City area, with up to five years of experience working with artists.

Seminar sessions will take place virtually and in person at various locations around New York City.

Please reach out to Zoe Dobuler, ICI's Programs Coordinator, at zoe@curatorsintl.org with any questions or concerns.

Participants
Xavier Robles Armas

Xavier Robles Armas is a multidisciplinary artist and curator.

Jordan Horton

Jordan Horton is a curator and scholar from Newark, New Jersey, whose scholarship largely focuses on the internet as a geographical space.

Sienna Fekete

Sienna Fekete is a curator and educator based in New York City with a background in radio, podcasting, and music.

Andrea Sofia Matos

Andrea Sofia Matos (Bayamon, Puerto Rico) is a curator and arts administrator with a concentration on contemporary art from the Caribbean, and their diasporas.

Favour Ritaro

Favour Ritaro is a Nigerian curator whose practice delves into the complexities of personal and cultural identities, nationhood, and gender.

Tiffany Wong

Tiffany Wong (b. 1994, Hong Kong) is a New York-based independent curator and Director at Marvin Gardens.

Faculty and Mentors
Sampada Aranke

Sampada Aranke is an Associate Professor of Art History and Comparative Studies at Ohio State University.

Yona Backer

Yona Backer is a producer, curator, consultant, and a founding partner of Third Streaming, LLC (3S).

Natasha Becker

Natasha Becker is Curator of African Art at the de Young Museum, San Francisco.

Zoe Butt

Zoe Butt is a curator, writer, and founder and director of in-tangible institute. She nurtures critical thinking and historically conscious artistic communities, fostering dialogue among cultures of the globalizing souths.

 

 

Kate Fowle

Kate Fowle is Director of MoMA PS1 in New York.

David Evans Frantz

David Evans Frantz is a curator based in Los Angeles.

Lia Gangitano

In 2001, Lia Gangitano founded PARTICIPANT INC, a not-for-profit art space, presenting exhibitions by Virgil Marti, Charles Atlas, Kathe Burkhart, Michel Auder, and Renée Green, among others.

Allison Glenn

Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space,
through public art and special projects, biennials, and major new commissions by a wide range of
contemporary artists.

Michele Horrigan

Michele Horrigan is an Irish curator and artist.

Kemi Ilesanmi

Kemi Ilesanmi is Founder and Principal of KGI Projects, and formerly Executive Director of The Laundromat Project.

Gervais Marsh

Gervais Marsh is a writer, curator and scholar based in Chicago.

Eva Mayhabal Davis

Eva Mayhabal (b. Toluca, Mexico) is a cultural advocate and curator, collaborating with artists and creatives in the production of exhibitions, texts, and events.

Jay Pather

Jay Pather is a choreographer, curator and academic. Based in Cape Town, he is a Professor and directs the Institute for Creative Arts at UCT, curates Infecting the City Public Art Festival and the ICA Live Art Festival.

PJ Gubatina Policarpio

PJ Gubatina Policarpio is an educator, curator, programmer, writer, and community organizer.

Sally Tallant

Sally Tallant is the President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum, New York.

Ernestine White-Mifetu

Ernestine White-Mifetu is the Sills Foundation Curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Ayesha Williams

Ayesha Williams is the Executive Director of The Laundromat Project.


Credits
This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council. This program is also supported by Teiger Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.