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The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 15, the graduate thesis exhibitions organized by the Class of 2025. The projects point, in the students’ words, “to a deep engagement with histories that reverberate back and forth in time to critically reimagine the present.” The graduate exhibition is a core component of CCS Bard’s master’s program, which offers each student the opportunity to organize an independent project involving new commissions, original research into artists’ practices, and engagement with CCS Bard’s extensive archives and the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Past student-curated exhibitions have served as springboards for artists in the earliest stages of their careers, deep scholarship into historic movements and tendencies, and as the basis for ongoing curatorial investigations by CCS Bard graduates at other leading museums, galleries, and arts organizations around the world. Representing individual curatorial concerns and strategies, this year’s projects range from exhibitions that explore digital dystopias, media circulation, competing histories and memory, and underrepresented artists and archives.

More information on these exhibitions can be found on our website here.

A complete list of exhibitions follow below, organized alphabetically by curator name.

gap gap gap
Featured artists: Hangama Amiri, Latifa Zafar Attaii, Zelikha Zohra Shoja
Curated by Zuhra Amini 

The Edge of Belongings
Featured artists: Eugene Jung, boma pak, Jiajia Zhang, Bruno Zhu
Curated by Jungmin Cho

Sung Hwan Kim: Queer bird faces
Featured artist: Sung Hwan Kim
Curated by Hayoung Chung

Bảy nổi ba chìm – Seven up Three down
Featured artists: Lê Đình Chung, Daphné Nan Le Sergent, Prune Phi, Xavier Robles de Medina, and Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần
Curated by Đỗ Tường Linh

dearmuthafuckindreams,
Featured artists: Essex Hemphill, Char Jeré, Wayson Jones, Malcolm Peacock, Collin Riggins, Marlon Riggs, Colin Robinson, and Jaguar Mary X
Curated by Omar Jason Farah

The Appearance of Distance
Featured artists: Tiffany Sia, Kobby Adi, Jackie Karuti
Curated by Matthew Lawson Garrett

a clear veil
Featured artists: Azadeh Elmizadeh, Ella Gonzales, Lotus L. Kang, and Audie Murray
Curated by Cicely Haggerty

CONCRETE
Featured artists: Robert Barry, Jason Hirata, and Ghislaine Leung
Curated by Lekha Jandhyala

Mutable Cycles
Featured artist: Joyce Joumaa, Iris Touliatou, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou, and Peter Eramian
Curated by Ariana Kalliga

Intercession
Featured artists: Lois Bielefeld, Ryan Kuo, Harris Rosenblum and Theresa Faison (for Transcendence Creative), and Viktor Timofeev
Curated by Audrey Min

Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken
Featured artists: Simon Benjamin, Keli Safia Maksud, and Suneil Sanzgiri
Curated by Sibia Sarangan

Lovett/Codagnone: Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves
Featured artists: Lovett/Codagnone and Julie Tolentino
Curated by Andrew Suggs

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Artists: Manon de Boer, Poul Kjærholm, Pierre Leguillon, Raimundas Malašauskas, John Menick, Ricardo Valentim, and Javier Villanueva

Right now I’m not there
Featured artists: Narcisa Hirsch, Luiz Roque, and Rosario Zorraquín
Curated by Micaela Vindman

Madeline Gins: Infinite Systems
Featured artist: Madeline Gins
Curated by Charlotte Youkilis

Planning your visit
Limited free seating is available on a roundtrip-chartered bus from New York City for the April 5 opening—reservations are required and can be made on by calling T +1 845 758 7598 or emailing Mary Rozell at mrozell@bard.edu.

The Hessel Museum of Art is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm. All exhibitions and public programs are free and open to the public.

The Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries are located in a single-level facility. Parking is available outside of the building in an ADA-compliant parking lot which has four accessible parking spaces at the end of the paved entrance way. To read our full Accessibility Policy, please see our website here.