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CCS Bard

Name: CCS Bard
Address: 33 Garden Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 12504, US
Telephone: +18457587598
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CCS Bard is an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present day.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) is an exhibition, education, and research center dedicated to the study of art and curatorial practices from the 1960s to the present day. In addition to the CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, the Center houses the Marieluise Hessel Collection, as well as an extensive library and curatorial archives that are accessible to the p

ublic. The Center’s two-year M.A. program in curatorial studies is specifically designed to deepen students’ understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating contemporary art. Exhibitions are presented year-round in the CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, providing students with the opportunity to work with world-renowned artists and curators. The exhibition program and the Hessel Collection also serve as the basis for a wide range of public programs and activities exploring art and its role in contemporary society. The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College opened its doors in 1992. Celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2012, CCS Bard presents a series of exhibitions by students, as well as a roster of international artists, working in a range of practices.

06/05/2025

Congratulations to the CCS Bard Class of 2025! Last week, we gathered together to celebrate and cheer their great achievement.

05/23/2025

“CONCRETE,” curated by Lekha Jandhyala, on view April 5 - May 25 as part of the 2025 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artists: Robert Barry, Jason Hirata, Ghislaine Leung

Museum Hours: Wed - Sun, 11am - 5pm⁠
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To learn more about the exhibitions on view, please visit the link in our bio.

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05/22/2025

“Mutable Cycles,” curated by Ariana Kalliga, on view April 5 - May 25 as part of the 2025 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artists: Joyce Joumaa, Iris Touliatou, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou, and Peter Eramian

Museum Hours: Wed - Sun, 11am - 5pm⁠
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To learn more about the exhibitions on view, please visit the link in our bio.

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05/19/2025

“Right now I’m not there,” curated by Micaela Vindman, on view April 5 - May 25 as part of the 2025 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artists: Narcisa Hirsch, Luiz Roque, Rosario Zorraquín

Museum Hours: Wed - Sun, 11am - 5pm⁠
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To learn more about the exhibitions on view, please visit the link in our bio.

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05/05/2025

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dara Birnbaum, pathbreaking artist and teacher.

In April 2020, in the early, isolating days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Birnbaum spoke to a CCS Bard class, and said: “It is important to take this time to figure out what we all want to fight for, to pause, to slow down and set our sights on what is really important to stand up for.” A remark resonates with her overall practice that consistently called for deep observation and analysis, fighting passivity, and unhinging structures of power.

Pictured here: Birnbaum views her US retrospective with director of exhibitions and director 📸 exhibition curator

05/01/2025

Next week, Dawn Chan will share her research project “Ways of Undoing: Low Carbon Alternatives in an Art World Reliant on Air Travel.”

May 7th, at 4pm in Classroom 102. This event is free and open to the public.

What happens if you refuse to fly for work? For gallerists, curators, and others working in the globalized field of contemporary visual art, air travel and other carbon-intensive infrastructures are a necessity. Underwritten by nations in pursuit of soft power, or by patrons jet-setting their way through a global art-fair circuit, the forms of exchange most prominently driving contemporary art’s circulation have become entirely reliant on jet fuel.

This talk will present a research project springing from a single constraint: What happens when an art critic refuses to fly for art events and press trips? Going beyond a narrow understanding of flight-free alternatives (like Zoom talks), the project proposes serious, whimsical, unsettling, even absurdist alternatives. Could one hire an actor as a doppelganger? Stage a Twitch livestream lecture? Retain an attorney as a mouthpiece for a day? Jointly review a faraway show with a local critic?

Chan will highlight alternate modes of encounter she has proposed to collaborators throughout the 400+ days she has opted not to fly for art. Pondering ways to decentralize the figure of the global art practitioner, the talk will touch on Conceptual art precedents, the limits of “climate art,” and the perceived futility of individual actions.

Bio:
As a cultural critic, Dawn has frequently written for the New York Times. Her writing also appears in ArtReview, The Atlantic, Bookforum, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, and Spike, as well as in publications by the Taipei Biennial, Hyundai’s Artlab, the Okayama Art Summit, and the Sharjah Biennial. A former visiting scholar at the Center for Experimental Humanities at NYU, Dawn has received a Warhol Arts Writers Grant, a Thoma Arts Writing Award, and a Fulbright. Currently a core faculty member at Bard CCS, Dawn has lately come to be most interested in foregrounding her CV’s blank spaces and events that go missed due to their air travel requirements.

11/26/2024

We are thrilled to announce the exhibition “Stan Douglas: Ghostlight.” Opening summer 2025, this will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present.

“Stan Douglas: Ghostlight” will include the North American premiere of “Birth of a Nation,” an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits the 1915 D.W. Griffith film. The installation will be framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’s deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.

The survey is organized by Lauren Cornell, Chief Curator and Director of the Graduate Program .

Exhibitions at CCS Bard and the Hessel Museum of Art are made possible with generous support from Lonti Ebers, the Marieluise Hessel Foundation, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies, and the Center’s Patrons, Supporters, and Friends.

“Birth of a Nation” (2025) is commissioned by the Hartwig Art Foundation with the Brick, Los Angeles.

The exhibition would not have been possible without the generous support of David Zwirner, New York. Special thanks to Victoria Miro, London, for their additional support to the project.

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the link in our bio.

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Artwork: Stan Douglas, Ghostlight, 2024 (detail)

11/15/2024

The Forge Scholarship for Indigenous Art supports students who wish to study, research, and focus on Indigenous art in the Center for Curatorial Studies, , graduate program. Its aim is to broadly support work that creates resonant and innovative platforms for Indigenous artists and practitioners.

The Forge Scholarship provides full tuition coverage to the CCS Bard graduate program as well as a stipend to help offset living expenses based on demonstrated financial need.

The scholarship comes with several benefits above financial aid: The recipient will be advised by the Fellow in Indigenous Art History and Curatorial Studies, a faculty appointment at , and take CCS courses hosted at , a Native-led non-profit organization whose mandate is to cultivate and advance Indigenous leadership in arts and culture.

In addition, the student will have the opportunity to collaborate with a range of other Bard faculty and programs, including the Center for Indigenous Studies.

Bard College initiated the Forge Scholarship for Indigenous Art at CCS as part of a larger endowment gift to strengthen the commitment to and scholarship around Indigenous contemporary art and its histories.

CCS will automatically renew the scholarship in the second year of the program as long as the student remains in good academic standing.

CCS will award the next Forge Scholarship for the fall 2025/spring 2026 academic year. Applicants should outline their interest in the scholarship and relevant academic and curatorial interests in their application to CCS Bard (due February 1, 2025). No separate application is required.

Email questions to [email protected].

11/12/2024

Installation images of “Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas,” on view at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) through January 25, 2025.

The exhibition features “Trans,” a 1982 documentary by filmmakers Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla that follows a group of Venezuelan trans women in early 1980s Caracas as they share their dreams and demonstrate their resilience against the backdrop of the city.

Expanding on an exhibition produced through the 2023 ISLAA Artist Seminar Initiative at CCS Bard, “Dueñas de la Noche” marks the first time “Trans” is shown in New York City, providing an intimate look at these women’s experiences as s*x workers, their aspirations, and their community.

Dueñas de la Noche is cocurated by CCS Bard alumni and graduate students Omar Farah, Lucas Ondak, Clara Prat-Gay, Andrew Suggs, Micaela Vindman, and Clara von Turkovich, with guidance from ISLAA Artist Seminar Initiative professor and curator Mariano López Seoane. This iteration was developed with the support of Bernardo Mosqueira, ISLAA chief curator; Olivia Casa, ISLAA curator and exhibition program manager; and Rebecca Miralrio, former ISLAA exhibition assistant.

Images: Installation views of “Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas,” Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York, 2024. Photo: Sebastian Bach

09/09/2024

Installation views of “Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger,” on view through December 1st.

Museum Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 11am-5pm.

“Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger” marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. “Time & the Tiger” features five immersive multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities.

Marking its U.S. debut are the new works “T for Time” and “T for Time: Timepieces” (both 2023–ongoing; Slides 4-7), co-commissioned by Singapore Art Museum and Art Sonje Center with M+, in collaboration with Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and Sharjah Art Foundation. These video installations draw from the many traditions and histories of time and timekeeping across Asia. Representing a summation of Ho’s previous work exploring the heterogeneity of Southeast Asia, T for Time and T for Time: Timepieces reflect on our contemporary experience of time as stemming from European notions of linear progression, regulated by the Gregorian calendar and networked by computers. In it, Ho asks whether we can recover the different experiences of time that were evident in Southeast Asia before Western influence.

“Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger” is organized by Singapore Art Museum and Art Sonje Center (Seoul, South Korea) in collaboration with the Hessel Museum of Art and Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. Its presentation at the Hessel Museum of Art is organized by Lauren Cornell, Chief Curator and Director of the Graduate Program, and Tom Eccles, Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

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09/04/2024

We are pleased to announce the launch of our fall semester speaker series with a talk from Meg Onli.

Tuesday, September 10th, at 5pm in Classroom 102. This event is free and open to the public.

Meg Onli is a Curator-at-Large at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Onli has worked as the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, most recently as Director and Curator of The Underground Museum, Los Angeles. She has curated such exhibitions “Speech/Acts” (2017), “Colored People Time: Mundane Features, Quotidian Pasts, Banal Presents” (2019), and “Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation” (2021) with Erin Christovale. She was appointed to curate the 2024 Whitney Biennial alongside Chrissie Iles. Onli is also a member of the CCS Bard Graduate Committee

07/05/2024

A standing ovation for Carrie Mae Weems from the Bard MFA following a discussion between Weems and Tom Eccles! Thank you to Jace Clayton, Hannah Barrett, and Marina Caron for organizing the event, and to the Bard MFA students for the generative questions.

“Carrie Mae Weems: Remember to Dream” is on view through December 1st.

Museum Hours: Wed-Sun, 12-6pm.

Also on view: “Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger” and “Start Making Sense.”

For more information about our exhibitions, please visit the link in our bio.

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Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

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http://ccs.bard.edu/

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