Olga Kopenkina is a Belarus-born, NYC-based independent curator and art critic, who focuses on the intersection of art and political movements. Her curatorial projects include The Work of Love, The Queer of Labor, Pratt Manhattan Gallery (2022) and Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT (2017); Feminism is Politics! at Pratt Manhattan Gallery (2016); Lenin: Icebreaker Revisited at Austrian Cultural Forum (2015), Sounds of Silence: Art during Dictatorship at EFA Project Space (2012), among others. In 2017, she organized a screening of Ressler’s work “Emergency Turned Upside Down” at UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY. Kopenkina is a contributor to publications such as Art Journal, Artforum,
ArtMargins, Field Journal, Moscow Art Journal, Hyperallergic,
Brooklyn Rail, and others. She teaches at New York University and Fordham University.
