Ksenia Nouril is a New York-based art historian, curator, and arts administrator. She is the Assistant Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. From September 2022 to January 2025, she served as the Gallery Director and Curator at The Art Students League of New York. Previously, she had held curatorial positions at the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick and The Print Center, Philadelphia. From January 2015 to September 2017, Ksenia was the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) Fellow for Central and Eastern European Art at The Museum of Modern Art, where she also worked on the Thomas Walther Collection in the Department of Photography, first as an intern (2011) then as a Research Assistant (2014). Ksenia’s publications include Carmen Winant: A Brand New End (The Print Center, 2022); Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov: Stories About Ourselves (Rutgers University Press, 2019); and Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (MoMA, 2018). Her projects have been grant-funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, William Penn Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. She holds a BA in Art History and Slavic Studies from New York University and an MA and PhD in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

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