Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Simon Kelly, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum since 2010, recently curated the exhibition, Matisse and the Sea (2024), which examines the significance of the sea across Modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career. Previously, he curated Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape (2023). Kelly has published extensively on 19th- and early 20th-century French art, including the recent book Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market (Bloomsbury, 2021). Additionally, he has published essays in the exhibition catalogues Reckoning with Millet’s ‘Man with a Hoe’ (Getty Art Museum, 2023); Monet: the Late Years (Kimbell Art Museum, 2019); Inspiration Matisse (Kunsthalle, Mannheim, 2019); Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market (National Gallery, London, 2015); and Becoming Van Gogh (Denver Art Museum, 2012). In recent years, he has also written on American Abstract Expressionism, including essays in Monet/Mitchell (Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2022) and Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2023), and about contemporary African American artists, including Kehinde Wiley and Oliver Lee Jackson. Kelly worked previously at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. He received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he also taught art history.

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