Long before curating was recognized as a profession, artists tried to control the conditions of their work’s reception. In the twentieth century, artists not only made discrete objects in their studios, they expanded their scope to include the very apparatus of presentation and dissemination of the work they had produced—and often that of other artists as well. Issues that have emerged in curatorial discourse over the last twenty years include the ritualizing of the experience of art through exhibitions, the rise of ‘biennale culture’, the artist as meta-curator, and the large-scale curated exhibition as the new autonomous artwork. James Putnam describes “creative curating,” wherein the roles of the artists and curator become blurred as the artist-curator dissolves the boundaries distinguishing exhibition design from installation, as part of a broader project to reinterpret the museum and offer institutional critique (2009). In this seminar, we will consider what insights artists bring to curating that are different from an art historian or a professional curator.