Three Bard alumni/ae and an Artist in Residence have been named to the TIME100 Art list for 2026, which identifies the 100 most influential curators and artists working today. Those alumni include Christine Sun Kim MFA '13, a visual artist who pairs drawings with sound, and Artist in Residence Jeffrey Gibson, a sculptor whose work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and
the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The list also includes Cecilia Alemani MA-CCS '05, director and chief curator of New York City's High Line, and Diya Vij '08,
commissioner of cultural affairs for the City of New York.
“Artists don’t work in a vacuum,”
TIME writes. “They are supported by a massive ecosystem, from philanthropists and nonprofits who fund work, to gallerists and advisers who shape careers, to curators, museum leaders, [who] make art possible.” Asked by
TIME about her work with New York’s Cultural Stability Fund, Vij said, “I was really interested in making gathering spaces where people could surface the ideas of what it looks like [to] live together differently, to govern differently, to build a different world.”
Bard’s programs include the undergraduate
Studio Arts Program, which provides a breadth of expanded offerings while retaining a strong core of courses that provide a firm grounding in artistic techniques and principles. They also include Bard’s
MFA Program, a two-year multidisciplinary program focused on individual process and work in progress, as each student confronts the conceptual and practical questions at the core of all artistic production.
Photo: Cecilia Alemani MA-CCS '05, director and chief curator of New York City's High Line, is among the three Bard alums included in the TIME100 Art list.
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