THE SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ABOUT
ARTIST-CURATED EXHIBITIONS
Co-hosted with Artists Space
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ABOUT
ARTIST-CURATED EXHIBITIONS
Co-hosted with Artists Space
Purchase tickets below / FREE for students & faculty (required rsvp below)
Become a member and save on tickets
May 3, 2025
10am – 3pm
May 4, 2025
1 – 6pm
10am – 3pm
May 4, 2025
1 – 6pm
What happens to exhibitions when artists are the curators?
When artists curate, they tend to propose different ideas about what an exhibition is for and what it can do. A closer look at a history of artist-curated exhibitions could bring significant insights to the field.
How do these exhibitions differ from ones curated by curators? Do shared typologies or strategies emerge? What are the benefits, and the risks, involved with an exhibition that centers an artist's perspective on other artists? Why do museums invite artists to curate? What are some of the agendas, motivations, and expectations involved? What can curators, and museum professionals more generally, learn from artist-curated exhibitions? How does that history affect or inform a broader history of curatorial practice?
When artists curate, they tend to propose different ideas about what an exhibition is for and what it can do. A closer look at a history of artist-curated exhibitions could bring significant insights to the field.
How do these exhibitions differ from ones curated by curators? Do shared typologies or strategies emerge? What are the benefits, and the risks, involved with an exhibition that centers an artist's perspective on other artists? Why do museums invite artists to curate? What are some of the agendas, motivations, and expectations involved? What can curators, and museum professionals more generally, learn from artist-curated exhibitions? How does that history affect or inform a broader history of curatorial practice?
Everything at GPS is about artists supporting other artists—and so every year, we convene a two-day conference about artist-curated exhibitions. A different selection of case studies provides an annual forum for new scholarship about this under-studied and under-historicized curatorial form.
This second annual conference was developed through a graduate course at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) led by Anthony Huberman, visiting faculty at CCS Bard, and was organized by Hayoung Chung, Do Tuong Linh, Audrey Min, Andrew Suggs, and Javier Villanueva.
This second annual conference was developed through a graduate course at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) led by Anthony Huberman, visiting faculty at CCS Bard, and was organized by Hayoung Chung, Do Tuong Linh, Audrey Min, Andrew Suggs, and Javier Villanueva.
The 2025 conference reflects on artist-curated exhibitions via five case studies:
Against Nature, curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins (LACE, Los Angeles, 1989)
Homeland: A Palestinian Quest curated by Yong Soon Min and Shirin Neshat (Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, 1989; Restaged at Subtitled NYC in 2024)
TransEuphoria, curated by Chloe Dzublio and Jeffrey Greene (Umbrella Arts, New York, 2011)
Against Nature, curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins (LACE, Los Angeles, 1989)
Homeland: A Palestinian Quest curated by Yong Soon Min and Shirin Neshat (Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, 1989; Restaged at Subtitled NYC in 2024)
TransEuphoria, curated by Chloe Dzublio and Jeffrey Greene (Umbrella Arts, New York, 2011)
Activating Captions, curated by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Von Tomme (online, hosted by argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, 2021)
In Our Veins Flow Ink & Fire, curated by Shubigi Rao (5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2022)
Click here for information about the case studies in the inaugural 2024 conference.
In Our Veins Flow Ink & Fire, curated by Shubigi Rao (5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2022)
Click here for information about the case studies in the inaugural 2024 conference.
Saturday, May 3
Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley
FREE for students and faculty
(email us at info@giornopoetrysystems.org from an .edu account for a free ticket and specify which day(s) you would like to attend)
Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley
FREE for students and faculty
(email us at info@giornopoetrysystems.org from an .edu account for a free ticket and specify which day(s) you would like to attend)
10am
Introduction
Case Study #1: Homeland: A Palestinian Quest curated by Yong Soon Min and Shirin Neshat (1989; restaged in 2024)
Conversation between
Howie Chen,
Sung Ho Choi,
and Jenna Hamed,
introduced and moderated by Audrey Min.
12pm
Lecture by
Raimundas Malašauskas, “'it is not only, it is also,”
introduced by Javier Villanueva
1:15pm
Break (food available)
1:45pm
Case Study #2: Activating Captions, curated by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Von Tomme (online, 2021)
Conversation with
Amalle Dublon,
Finnegan Shannon,
Jordan Lord,
moderated by Emily Watlington,
and introduced by Hayoung Chung
Note on accessibility: this event is supported by a live TypeWell transcriber.
Introduction
Case Study #1: Homeland: A Palestinian Quest curated by Yong Soon Min and Shirin Neshat (1989; restaged in 2024)
Conversation between
Howie Chen,
Sung Ho Choi,
and Jenna Hamed,
introduced and moderated by Audrey Min.
12pm
Lecture by
Raimundas Malašauskas, “'it is not only, it is also,”
introduced by Javier Villanueva
1:15pm
Break (food available)
1:45pm
Case Study #2: Activating Captions, curated by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Von Tomme (online, 2021)
Conversation with
Amalle Dublon,
Finnegan Shannon,
Jordan Lord,
moderated by Emily Watlington,
and introduced by Hayoung Chung
Note on accessibility: this event is supported by a live TypeWell transcriber.
Sunday, May 4
GPS, 222 Bowery
FREE for students and faculty
(email us at info@giornopoetrysystems.org from an .edu account for a free ticket and specify which day(s) you would like to attend))
GPS, 222 Bowery
FREE for students and faculty
(email us at info@giornopoetrysystems.org from an .edu account for a free ticket and specify which day(s) you would like to attend))
1pm
Introduction
Case Study #3: In Our Veins Flow Ink & Fire, curated by Shubigi Rao (2022)
Lecture by
Shubigi Rao (via zoom),
introduced by Trishla Talera,
followed by a conversation moderated by Do Tuong Linh.
3pm
Case Study #4: Against Nature, curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins (1989)
Conversation between
Nayland Blake,
Emily Colucci,
Joshua Lubin-Levy,
Ryan Mangione,
(Sur) Rodney Sur,
and Jo-ey Tang,
moderated by Andrew Suggs.
4:30pm
Performance by
Gavilán Rayna Russom,
incorporating audio samples of Chloe Dzubilo, from the archive of T De Long, in honor of TransEuphoria, curated by Chloe Dzubilo and Jeffrey Greene (2011).
Note on accessibility: this event is supported by a live TypeWell transcriber.
Introduction
Case Study #3: In Our Veins Flow Ink & Fire, curated by Shubigi Rao (2022)
Lecture by
Shubigi Rao (via zoom),
introduced by Trishla Talera,
followed by a conversation moderated by Do Tuong Linh.
3pm
Case Study #4: Against Nature, curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins (1989)
Conversation between
Nayland Blake,
Emily Colucci,
Joshua Lubin-Levy,
Ryan Mangione,
(Sur) Rodney Sur,
and Jo-ey Tang,
moderated by Andrew Suggs.
4:30pm
Performance by
Gavilán Rayna Russom,
incorporating audio samples of Chloe Dzubilo, from the archive of T De Long, in honor of TransEuphoria, curated by Chloe Dzubilo and Jeffrey Greene (2011).
Note on accessibility: this event is supported by a live TypeWell transcriber.
Homeland: A Palestinian Quest curated by Yong Soon Min and Shirin Neshat (1989)
Activating Captions, curated by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Von Tomme (online, 2021)
In Our Veins Flow Ink & Fire, curated by Shubigi Rao (2022)
Against Nature, curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins (1989)
TransEuphoria, curated by Chloe Dzublio and Jeffrey Greene (2011)
Howie Chen is the Director and Curator of 80 Washington Square East gallery at NYU.
Sung Ho Choi is a Korean American mixed media artist based in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Jenna Hamed is an artist & art worker based in New York, with roots in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Raimundas Malašauskas is a curator and writer in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Eduardo Crespo is an artist and digital product designer living and working in New York.
Jordan Lord is a filmmaker, writer, and artist who works with questions of access, documentary, and debt.
Finnegan Shannon is an artist experimenting with forms of access.
Emily Watlington is an art critic and senior editor at Art in America.
Sung Ho Choi is a Korean American mixed media artist based in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Jenna Hamed is an artist & art worker based in New York, with roots in Jerusalem, Palestine.
Raimundas Malašauskas is a curator and writer in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Eduardo Crespo is an artist and digital product designer living and working in New York.
Jordan Lord is a filmmaker, writer, and artist who works with questions of access, documentary, and debt.
Finnegan Shannon is an artist experimenting with forms of access.
Emily Watlington is an art critic and senior editor at Art in America.
Shubigi Rao is an artist, writer, and filmmaker working with subterranean histories and resistance, themes reflected in her curation of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2022.
Trishla Talera is an artist, curator and founder of TIFA + Evolving Culture Foundation, a deeply inclusive and trans-disciplinary platform for Creativity and Culture in India.
Nayland Blake is an artist and the Co-Director of the Studio Arts Program at Bard College.
Emily Colucci is a writer, curator, and co-founder of Filthy Dreams, a website analyzing art, culture, and politics with a touch of camp.
Amalle Dublon is an artist, writer, and organizer of I Wanna Be With You Everywhere, a serial gathering of disabled artists and writers. They teach at the New School.
Joshua Lubin-Levy is a scholar, dramaturg, and curator. He is working on a monograph on the photography and performance work of Jack Smith.
Ryan Mangione is a New York–based writer and editor.
(Sur) Rodney Sur is a curator, writer, and archivist who co-directed the celebrated Gracie Mansion Gallery (1983–88).
Jo-ey Tang is an artist, writer, and curator of arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified.
T De Long is the surviving spouse of Chloe Dzubilo and executor of her estate.
Gavilán Rayna Russom is a folklorist, artist, community organizer, and curator based in New York. Rayna is the founder of Voluminous Arts.
Trishla Talera is an artist, curator and founder of TIFA + Evolving Culture Foundation, a deeply inclusive and trans-disciplinary platform for Creativity and Culture in India.
Nayland Blake is an artist and the Co-Director of the Studio Arts Program at Bard College.
Emily Colucci is a writer, curator, and co-founder of Filthy Dreams, a website analyzing art, culture, and politics with a touch of camp.
Amalle Dublon is an artist, writer, and organizer of I Wanna Be With You Everywhere, a serial gathering of disabled artists and writers. They teach at the New School.
Joshua Lubin-Levy is a scholar, dramaturg, and curator. He is working on a monograph on the photography and performance work of Jack Smith.
Ryan Mangione is a New York–based writer and editor.
(Sur) Rodney Sur is a curator, writer, and archivist who co-directed the celebrated Gracie Mansion Gallery (1983–88).
Jo-ey Tang is an artist, writer, and curator of arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified.
T De Long is the surviving spouse of Chloe Dzubilo and executor of her estate.
Gavilán Rayna Russom is a folklorist, artist, community organizer, and curator based in New York. Rayna is the founder of Voluminous Arts.
The Second Annual Conference on Artist-Curated Exhibitions is supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and The Jenni Crain Foundation.
Special thanks to Lauren Cornell at CCS Bard for your support and partnership, and to Artists Space for co-hosting.
Artists Space is fully accessible via our ADA compliant entrance on 80 White Street. There is a wheelchair lift in front of the entrance and an automated door. The cellar gallery is accessible via the ground floor elevator.
Due to the age and character of the building, GPS's space at 222 Bowery is not optimized for ADA accessibility and is located up a single flight of 20 stairs with handrails. If you have questions about access, please contact us in advance of the event, and we will make every effort to accommodate you.
