Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Skins, Not Our Own, this presentation by the noted scholar Steven Henry Madoff considers how the exhibition artists Heidi Bucher, Rebecca Horn, and Kimsooja approach skin as both boundary and threshold between self and other, body and environment, tracing its porousness within the broader arc of their practices, related artists, and their times. The program also includes a moderated conversation with exhibition curator Summer Jimin Park.
Steven Henry Madoff is the founding chair of the MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He lectures internationally on such subjects as the history of interdisciplinary art, contemporary art, curatorial practice, and art pedagogy. His books include Unseparate: Modernism, Interdisciplinary Art, and Network Aesthetics from Stanford University Press; Thoughts on Curating from Sternberg Press (series editor); Turning Points: Responsive Pedagogies in Studio Art Education (contributor) from Teachers College Press; Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) (editor) from MIT Press, and Learning by Curating: Current Trajectories in Critical Curatorial Education (contributor) from Vector among others.
Summer Jimin Park is a 2026 MODA Curates fellow and the curator of Skins, Not Our Own. Her research centers on feminist and psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity, with a focus on how postwar global artists reimagine the body and its boundaries. Summer holds a BA in Art History from Georgetown University and previously worked at Kukje Gallery in Seoul. Her writing on art has appeared in W Korea and Marie Claire Korea.
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