Steven Henry Madoff

Steven Henry Madoff is the founding chair of the MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Previously, he served as senior critic at Yale University’s School of Art. He lectures internationally on such subjects as the history of interdisciplinary art, contemporary art, curatorial practice, and art pedagogy. He has served as executive editor of ARTnews magazine and as president and editorial director of AltaCultura, a project of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Madoff is a prolific writer of books and articles, poet, award-winning art critic and curator. His criticism and journalism have been translated into many languages and appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Time magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Tate, etc., as well as in ARTnews and Modern Painters, where he has also served as a contributing editor. He has curated exhibitions internationally over the past 35 years in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Madoff is the recipient of numerous awards, including from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets.