Talk

In this session of the Curatorial Roundtable, James Voorhies will delve into examples of curatorial projects he has created in order to examine experimental approaches to curating as they relate to research, knowledge production, and aesthetics, alongside the increasingly integrated role of reading in exhibitions.

James Voorhies is currently the chief curator of the Bass Museum in Miami. He has authored several books, including Postsensual Aesthetics: On the Logic of the Curatorial ( MIT Press, 2023) and Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968 ( MIT Press, 2017). He is editor of the four-volume catalogue raisonné on American artist Tony Smith ( MIT Press, 2024). Voorhies is based New York and Miami, has taught at Bennington College and Harvard University, and holds a PhD in modern and contemporary art history from the Ohio State University.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.