NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) marked the culmination of the 2022–23 academic year with a symposium at the Whitney on May 12, and two exhibitions at the ISP and Artists Space which will take place between May 17–28. These presentations showcase the work of the 2022–23 ISP cohort across three areas of concentration: Critical Studies Program, Curatorial Program, and Studio Program.

The 2022–23 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellows presented their current research at the annual ISP Critical Studies Symposium on Friday, May 12, in the Museum’s Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater. The fellows, Maddie Hampton, Sophia Larigakis, Dahlia Li, Jazmín López, Sonya Merutka, and Max Tolleson, shared short papers that address critical topics in contemporary culture. The fellows were joined in conversation by Sharon Hayes, Professor of Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and Jennifer González, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz, with an introduction by Cassandra Guan, Ph.D., Whitney Museum of American Art, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Fellow, and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program of Art, Culture, and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.

The Curatorial Studies Program exhibition, Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, includes a series of performances and film screenings that challenge the dominant modern conception of time as objective, divisible, and linear. The artworks on view explore how time is represented, lived, and contested in the catastrophic present. The exhibition is curated by the 2022–23 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows: KJ Abudu, Zachary B. Feldman, Emily Small, and Johanna Thorell. Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management brings together works by 24 artists and collectives—Kobby Adi, Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda, Yto Barrada, Black Quantum Futurism, Helen Cammock, Maria Chávez, Kajsa Dahlberg, Kevin Jerome Everson, Brendan Fernandes, ektor garcia, Hicham Gardaf, Gerard & Kelly, Simon Gush, Sky Hopinka, Clare Hu, Samson Kambalu, Karrabing Film Collective, Victor Masayesva Jr., Rosalind Nashashibi, Katie Paterson, Dario Robleto, Finnegan Shannon, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor. The exhibition will be on until May 28ht at Artists Space, located at 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY 10013, and will be accompanied by a performance program. Screenings at e-flux Screening Room, located at 172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, were on May 20th and one more will be on May 25th.

The Studio Program exhibition, No Necessary Correspondence, presents recent work by the 2022–23 Studio Program participants: Philip Cartelli, Tony Chrenka, Eli Coplan, Giulia Gabrielli, Utsa Hazarika, Jack Hogan and Francis Jones, Kyle Bellucci Johanson, Ayesha Kamal Khan, Sophie Kovel, Emilio Martínez Poppe, Anna Rubin, and Chi Yin Sim. The exhibition will be on view at the ISP building located at 100 Lafayette Street, 8th floor, New York, NY 10013, until May 28th.

The Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art consists of three interrelated areas of study: the Studio Program, Curatorial Program, and Critical Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting where students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture. Each academic year fifteen students are selected to participate in the Studio Program, four in the Curatorial Program, and six in the Critical Studies Program.
Curatorial and critical studies students are designated as Helena Rubinstein Fellows in recognition of the substantial support provided to the program by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. The program begins in early September and concludes at the end of May. Many participants are enrolled at universities and art schools and may receive academic credit for their participation, while others have recently completed their formal studies.