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.

Everything at GPS is about artists supporting other artists—and so every year, we convene a public forum about artist-curated exhibitions to provide new scholarship on this under-studied and under-historicized curatorial form.

The 2026 conference reflects on artist-curated exhibitions by examining the curatorial work of two artists:

Robert Gober
&
RAQS Media Collective

More information coming soon.

This third annual forum 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 Ray Camp, Christopher Gianunzio, Grace Harmer, and Amy Qian.