The Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies is a sequence of four courses that offer a theoretical and historical grounding in curatorial practices and practical experience in exhibition organization and display and object research and preservation. Every student enrolled in the certificate program will have the opportunity to work on an exhibition from inception to fruition, whether in the Curatorial Practicum seminar or in faculty-supervised internships. Hunter’s faculty are actively engaged as curators for special projects outside our galleries in a number of museums locally and internationally and we have a network of curators from those museums who have taught at Hunter or have expressed interest in working with our students.
The certificate recognizes the curatorial interests and ambitions of Hunter students and the Hunter College Art Galleries’ longstanding commitment to exhibitions whose themes, theses, and checklists have been developed and honed by our students. In just the past few years, faculty-initiated, seminar-based exhibitions have included:
Acts of Art in Greenwich Village (2024-25)
C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction (2023)
Distortions: Moscow Conceptualists Working Today (2023)
Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (2018)
Critical Gestures/Contested Spaces: French Art and Politics in the 1960s (2016)
Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists’ Landscapes of Latin America from The Patricia Phelps De Cisneros Collection (2015)
Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered 1967-1978 (2013)
Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s-Present (2012)
Hunter College Professor Harper Montgomery and MA and MFA students meeting with the artist David Lamelas in the exhibition Life as Activity: David Lamelas, Hunter College Art Galleries’ Leubsdorf Gallery Nov. 2021.
