The Ramapo Curatorial Prize is presented each year to a second-year graduate student at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies.
“Standard Forms considers recent trends in contemporary art that position formal abstraction in political terms. As nations employ increasingly sophisticated tools for surveilling and containing identity – identification documents, biometric databases, facial recognition software – abstraction resurfaces as an instrument of refusal. Recognizing the heightened dangers of transparency, the artists in the exhibition invoke the body while withholding it from view. In doing so, they look to art historical lineages of abstraction and minimalism, retooling these earlier efforts toward more explicitly political ends.”
They hold an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College.
The Kresge Gallery is located in the Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts on the Ramapo College campus.