New York Curatorial Seminar 2025

In the 2025 New York Curatorial Seminar, six New York-based curators met monthly from March to July 2025 for discussion-based seminars and site visits across New York, led by ICI staff, guest curators, artists, and arts professionals. The program opened with a visit to The Latinx Project at NYU, where 2024 Seminar Alumni Andrea Sofía Matos and Xavier Robles Armas led us on a tour of their co-curated exhibition RicanVisions. Sessions took place at various locations around New York City, and included a seminar with Mari Spirito (Curatorial Intensive alum, Inhotim 2012), Executive Director and Curator of Protocinema, and a visit to Participant Inc. and The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center.

About the Program

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.

Participants

LaTefy Dolley

LaTefy Dolley, a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist, curator, and archivist from Memphis, Tennessee, explores Black queer history, ephemeral materials, and experimental publishing.

Destiny Gray

Destiny Gray is a curator based in New York whose practice centers on expanding access to contemporary art and fostering meaningful connections between artists and communities.

Ping Ho

Ping Ho is a Taiwanese curator and artist creating inclusive, experimental, and accessible platforms for conversation and expression.

Dylan Seh-Jin Kim

Dylan Seh-Jin Kim is a curator who lives in Brooklyn.

Janggo Mahmud

Janggo Mahmud is a curator, cultural organizer, and social worker from Queens, New York.

Danielle Wu

Danielle Wu is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn, New York and is currently Communications & Database Manager at Asian American Arts Alliance (A4).

Faculty and Mentors

Xavier Robles Armas

Xavier Robles Armas is a multidisciplinary artist and curator.

Jon Davies

Jon Davies is a curator, writer, and art historian born and currently based in Montreal, Canada.

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.

Innocent Ekejiuba

Innocent Ekejiuba is a project manager and art administrator with varying interests that include art, technology, social media, traditional journalism, educational reforms, and history.

David Evans Frantz

David Evans Frantz is a curator based in Los Angeles.

Lia Gangitano

Lia Gangitano is a curator, and the founder and director of PARTICIPANT INC, in New York.

Kimberli Gant

Kimberli Gant, PhD is Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Elena Ketelsen González

Elena Ketelsen González is a curator, researcher, writer, and educator and is currently Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1.

Brianna Hernández

Brianna L. Hernández is a Chicana artist, curator, educator, and death doula guided by socially engaged practices.

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.

Serubiri Moses

Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan curator, editor, and scholar based in New York City.

Lila Nazemian

Lila Nazemian (she/her) is an independent curator and the Programs Director at ArteEast in New York.

Sofía Reeser-del Rio

Sofía Shaula Reeser-del Rio is a Puerto Rican curator, scholar, multidisciplinary artist, and educator based between Puerto Rico, Madrid, and NYC.

Mari Spirito

Mari Spirito is Executive Director and Curator of Protocinema, a cross-cultural, site-aware art organization commissioning and presenting exhibitions and public programs in Istanbul and New York, since 2011.

Herb Tam

Herb Tam is the Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), New York.

Ayesha Williams

Ayesha Williams is the Executive Director of The Laundromat Project.

Credits
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with City Council, with additional support from Teiger Foundation and the ICI Board of Trustees. Support for this program is also made possible by the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.