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Ksenia Nouril is an art historian, curator, and writer specializing in global modern and contemporary art. In January 2019, she was appointed the Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center, a non-profit institution in Philadelphia founded in 1915 dedicated to advancing the understanding of photography and printmaking as vital contemporary arts.

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 in New York, where she conducted research, planned programming, and served as a co-editor of and contributor to the online platform "post: notes on modern and contemporary art from around the globe" (post.at.moma.org). Prior to that fellowship, Ksenia was the Research and Editorial Assistant for the Thomas Walther Collection in the Department of Photography at MoMA, where she co-curated the exhibition "Production-Reproduction: The Circulation of Photographic Modernism, 1900-1950" (2014).

Her curatorial practice has been enriched through collaborations with the Lower East Side Print Shop (New York, NY), Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Momenta Art (Brooklyn, NY), NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn, NY), and the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia).

Ksenia holds an MA and PhD in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she completed her dissertation “The Afterlives of Communism: The Historical Turn in Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe” (supervisor: Jane A. Sharp) in October 2018. Her graduate studies were supported by the Dodge Fellowship at the Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ), where she mounted several exhibitions from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, including "Moscow Metaphysical Painting" (2012), "Leonid Sokov: Ironic Objects" (2013) and "Putting a Face to the Name: Artist Portraits from the Dodge Collection" (2013). In March 2016, she organized "Dreamworlds and Catastrophes: Intersections of Art and Technology in the Dodge Collection," which traveled to the Bruce Museum (Greenwich, CT) in an expanded iteration as "Hot Art in a Cold War: Intersections of Art and Science in the Soviet Era" (2018).

In addition, Ksenia is a co-editor of and contributor to "Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology" (MoMA/Duke University Press, 2018) and has published texts in numerous international exhibition catalogues and magazines, including The Calvert Journal, Institute of the Present, ARTMargins Online, and OSMOS.

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