Research Program

Research and Residency

The Center encourages new research and exhibition initiatives by providing fellowships and residencies to visiting scholars and curators. Particular attention is given to furthering interdisciplinary study of the social and cultural contexts of contemporary art, curatorial practice, and the history of exhibition, including comparative studies of the contemporary visual arts and their exhibition throughout the world.

In 1995, an award to the Center from the Getty Grant Program provided substantial support for visiting researchers and a series of conferences.  Curators and scholars awarded residencies through this program include Susan Cahan, Mary Jane Jacob, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Stephen Melville, Ivo Mesquita, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Marcia Tucker, John Vinci, and Martha Ward.

In 1996, with grants from the ArtsLink Partnership and the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Center also initiated a program of visiting fellowships for curators from Central and Eastern Europe. Fellowships have been awarded to Lech Lechowicz, curator at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland; Ivona Raimonova, curator at the Center for Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic; Viktor Misiano, director of the Contemporary Art Centre in Moscow, Russia; Iaroslava Boubnova, curator at the National Gallery for Foreign Art in Sofia, Bulgaria; Anda Rottenberg, director of the National Gallery of Contemporary Art Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland; Maria Hlavajova, director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Bratislava, Slovakia; and Piotr Piotrowski, professor of art history, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.

Curatorial Residency

In 2006, CCS Bard began a long-term curatorial residency program that allows visiting curators to spend from one semester to two years at the Center working with students in the graduate program, in addition to organizing exhibitions for the CCS Bard Galleries and the Hessel Museum of Art.  Trevor Smith, curator in residence from 2006 to 2008, worked with executive director Tom Eccles to organize Wrestle (2006-07), the inaugural exhibition of the Hessel Museum of Art, and curated Martin Creed: Feelings, in 2007.

In 2008 and 2009, CCS Bard hosted two curators in residence: Sofia Hernández, independent curator and former director of Art in General, New York City; and Trude Iversen, a curator and critic from Norway. The 2009-2010 CCS Bard curators-in-residence are Ana Paula Cohen and Anke Bangma. For more information on current curators-in-residence, click here.

Artist Residency

In order to make the actual production of art a more palpable part of the graduate program at CCS Bard, the Center initiated an artist in residency program in 2008.  One artist spends time at the Center each semester, making new work and engaging with the program in other ways.

Past residents include:
Bernd Krauss (Fall 2008)
Lisi Raskin (Spring 2008)

The CCS Bard artist-in-residence for 2009 is Marysia Lewandowska. For more information on the artist-in-residence program, including the current artist-in-residence and related artist projects, click here.