CCS Bard

CCS Bard 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.

Mark your calendars for our summer exhibitions! Opening reception Saturday, June 27, 2026 from 2-5pm“Betty Parsons: An E...
05/27/2026

Mark your calendars for our summer exhibitions! Opening reception Saturday, June 27, 2026 from 2-5pm

“Betty Parsons: An Expanded World,” curated by Kelly Taxter (CCS ‘03) with artist Amy Sillman.

“Uman: In Between,” curated by Lauren Cornell.

“Replica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz,” curated by Candice Hopkins (citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation, CCS Bard ‘03)

⁠Link in our bio for more details on each exhibition.⁠
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Limited free seating is available on a roundtrip chartered bus from New York City for the June 27 opening. Reservations are required and can be made on this by calling +1 845-758-7598 or emailing Mary Rozell at [email protected].
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Images:
1) Aerial view of CCS Bard.

2) Betty Parsons, “Opposition,” 1962. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © 2025 Betty Parsons and William P. Rayner Foundation

3) Uman, “Samaki in the ocean,” 2023. ©Uman. Courtesy of the artist, Nicola Vassell Gallery and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer.

4) Marilou Schultz “Water, Tó,” 2022. Gochman Family Collection Photo credit: Thatcher Keats

“Useful Contaminants” curated by Grace Harmer, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exh...
05/02/2026

“Useful Contaminants” curated by Grace Harmer, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artists: Erik DeLuca, Robbie Wing

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.

Images: Installation views from “Useful Contaminants” Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 4–May 24, 2026. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Grace Harmer. Photos: Alon Koppel, 2026.

Join us Friday, May 8, for the CCS Bard Method Camp!11am - 4pm, Collection Teaching GalleryFor the full symposium schedu...
05/01/2026

Join us Friday, May 8, for the CCS Bard Method Camp!
11am - 4pm, Collection Teaching Gallery

For the full symposium schedule, please visit the link in our bio.

Participants: Lara Fresko Madra, Harris Feinsod, Jonathan González, Shannon Mattern, Dawn Chan, Suzanne Kite, Eugenie Tsai, and Jordan Weber. Organized by Mariano López Seoane.

CCS Bard Method Camp: Research inaugurates a new annual symposium at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College dedicated to examining the foundational practices that shape curatorial work and its adjacent fields. Conceived as a space for reflection on method rather than outcome, this first edition focuses on research—not as a neutral or preliminary stage, but as a situated, generative, and often unruly practice that underpins artistic, curatorial, and scholarly production.

Across disciplines, research names a wide spectrum of activities: observation, collection, speculation, verification, immersion, and translation. It may unfold systematically or intuitively, collaboratively or in isolation; it may take the form of archival excavation, fieldwork, embodied inquiry, or conceptual construction. Rather than stabilizing these differences, Method Camp approaches research as a set of evolving practices shaped by context, urgency, and desire. What does it mean to begin with a question? How does a line of inquiry take form, and for whom? At what point does research become legible—or deliberately resist legibility?

This one-day symposium, organized by Mariano López Seoane, consists of two 90-minute panels bringing together artists, curators, and scholars. The program foregrounds case-based reflections on process, offering insight into the intellectual, material, and affective dimensions of research across fields.

Image: Anne Collier, “Despair,” 2005. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Gift of Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg. Courtesy of the artist; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Galerie Neu, Berlin; Gladstone Gallery, Brussels; and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow.

Join us Friday, May 1, for the inaugural CCS Bard Method Camp!11am - 4pm, Collection Teaching GalleryFor the full sympos...
05/01/2026

Join us Friday, May 1, for the inaugural CCS Bard Method Camp!
11am - 4pm, Collection Teaching Gallery

For the full symposium schedule, please visit the link in our bio.

Participants: Lara Fresko Madra, Harris Feinsod, Jonathan González, Shannon Mattern, Dawn Chan, Suzanne Kite, Eugenie Tsai, and Jordan Weber. Organized by Mariano López Seoane.

“CCS Bard Method Camp: Research” inaugurates a new annual symposium at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College dedicated to examining the foundational practices that shape curatorial work and its adjacent fields. Conceived as a space for reflection on method rather than outcome, this first edition focuses on research—not as a neutral or preliminary stage, but as a situated, generative, and often unruly practice that underpins artistic, curatorial, and scholarly production.

Across disciplines, research names a wide spectrum of activities: observation, collection, speculation, verification, immersion, and translation. It may unfold systematically or intuitively, collaboratively or in isolation; it may take the form of archival excavation, fieldwork, embodied inquiry, or conceptual construction. Rather than stabilizing these differences, Method Camp approaches research as a set of evolving practices shaped by context, urgency, and desire. What does it mean to begin with a question? How does a line of inquiry take form, and for whom? At what point does research become legible—or deliberately resist legibility?

This one-day symposium, organized by Mariano López Seoane, consists of two 90-minute panels bringing together artists, curators, and scholars. The program foregrounds case-based reflections on process, offering insight into the intellectual, material, and affective dimensions of research across fields.

Image: Anne Collier, “Despair,” 2005. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Gift of Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg. Courtesy of the artist; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Galerie Neu, Berlin; Gladstone Gallery, Brussels; and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow.

“False Sponsor” curated by Ray Camp, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.A...
05/01/2026

“False Sponsor” curated by Ray Camp, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artists: Abigail Raphael Collins, Sophie Kovel, Julia Weist

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.

Images: Installation views from “False Sponsor” Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 4–May 24, 2026. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Ray Camp. Photos: Alon Koppel, 2026.

“We be made it up to remember …” curated by Amy Yuanchen Qian, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Stu...
04/30/2026

“We be made it up to remember …” curated by Amy Yuanchen Qian, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artists: He Zike, Ma Qiusha

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.

Images: Installation views from “We made it up to remember …” Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 4–May 24, 2026. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Amy Yuanchen Qian. Photos: Alon Koppel, 2026.

“Assume Form,” curated by Emily Nola, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions....
04/29/2026

“Assume Form,” curated by Emily Nola, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artist/Participants: Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Lendl Barcelos, Oneohtrix Point Never, 0rphan Drift, Sadie Plant

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.

Images: Installation views from “Assume Form,” Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 4–May 24, 2026. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Emily Nola. Photos: Alon Koppel, 2026.

“part of being alive,” curated by Christopher Gianunzio, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student C...
04/25/2026

“part of being alive,” curated by Christopher Gianunzio, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artist/Participant Names: Sara Cwynar, Arthur Jafa, Mike Kelley, Carmen Winant

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.

Images: Installation views from “part of being alive,” Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 4–May 24, 2026. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Christopher Gianunzio. Photos: Alon Koppel, 2026.

“Full Tilt,” curated by Devon Ma, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.Arti...
04/24/2026

“Full Tilt,” curated by Devon Ma, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artist: Jonathan González
Performer: Marguerite Hemmings

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.

Images: Installation views from “Full Tilt,” Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 4–May 24, 2026. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Devon Ma. Photos: Alon Koppel, 2026. Performance Photos: Michael Valiquette, 2026.

“Anne Healy: Logic of Intuition,” curated by Lila Gould, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student C...
04/23/2026

“Anne Healy: Logic of Intuition,” curated by Lila Gould, on view April 4 - May 24 as part of the 2026 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions.

Artist: Anne Healy

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.

Images: Installation views from “Anne Healy: Logic of Intuition,” Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 4–May 24, 2026. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Lila Gould. Photos: Alon Koppel, 2026.

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