EDUCATION
- 2020- Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History
- 2019 – School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism. Thesis: Dialectics of the Soviet Avant-Garde in the First Exhibition of Ukrainian Nonconformist Art. Advisors: Delinda Collier, Adrienne Kochman, and Mechtild Widrich.
- 2012 – Massachusetts College of Art and Design, BFA in Studio for Interrelated Media
RESEARCH GRANTS & AWARDS
- 2020- Present -Dodge Avenir Fellowship, Department of Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
- 2022-2023 – U.S. Fulbright Researcher, Kazakhstan, Research
- 2019 – Harvard University Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
- 2019 – Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute Scholarship Award
- 2018 – Graduate Travel Award, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 2018 – Graduate Dean Professional Development Award, Graduate Division, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SHORT TEXTS
- 2024 – “Beyond Propaganda: Deineka and Socialist Realism,” a book review ofCollective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realismby Christina Kiaer for Art Focus Now.
- 2024 – “Levi Deni Hangs Out her Laundry in Tbilisi,” review for Art Focus Now
- 2022 – Review of Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine by Jessica Zychowicz.Commissioned by Emily Chanell-Justice (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute) for Anthropology of East Europe Review
- 2021 – “Points of Transference: Salome Unseated,” Exhibition Catalog Forward for Ariel Basson Freiberg’s Hellbent at the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University
- 2019 – Norma Esperanza Lopez, Screens Series, Commissioned for artist’s website
- 2014 – Crossover Catalog, for Boston Cyberarts Gallery
- 2013 – Forward, “Take Care Magazine,” for the Godine Family Gallery at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design
LECTURES & INVITED TALKS
- 2024 – Discussant for “Anthropocene Blues – The Peace Symphony,” with Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Rutgers University, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
- 2023 – “Affective Ecologies: Zones of Visibility and the Bomb, “Atomicon: A series of conversations on denuclearization, atomic culture and disarmament,”Judd Foundation, New York, NY
- 2023 – “Performative Time in the Works of Rustam Khalfin,” Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, “Contretemps,” University of Toronto, Toronto, CA.
- 2023 – “Transitions in Kazakh Contemporary Art,” Kiiz Space, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
- 2023 – “Nuclear Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Art,” South and Central Asia Fulbright Conference, Kochi, Kerala, India
- 2022- “Tips for Writing а Statement of Purpose for Grad Programs,” American Councils, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- 2022 – “Nuclear Testing in the Arts,” DOM on Baribayeva 36 (Дом на Барибаева 36), Almaty, Kazakhstan
- 2022 – “Reclaiming the Void: Internationalism and the Nomad,” Myers Graduate Symposium, “Making Space,” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- 2022 – “The Terrestrial Body: Resistance in the Works of Rustam Khalfin,” History of Art Graduate Symposium, “On Radical Practice: Representing Politics, Resistance, and Transmission,” Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- 2022 – “The Interchangeability of Nature and Human in the Works of Rustam Khalfin,” for the 44th annual Susman Graduate History Conference, “Crossing Boundaries: Disruption, Disturbance, and Defiance,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
- 2021 – “Race and Representation in Sergei Eisenstein’s ¡Que viva Mexico!,” for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, ASAP/12
- 2021 – “The Flesh in Question,” virtual discussion with artist Ariel Basson Freiberg, Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery, Waltham, MA
- 2018 – “The Multidimensionality of Self in the Pandrogeny Project,” for In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- 2017 – Speaker for Art Technology New England (ATNE), Boston, MA
- 2017 – Guest Speaker at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
- 2017 – Guest Speaker at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
- 2017 – Guest Speaker at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICE
- 2021-2022 – Editor for Anthropology of East Europe Review
- 2021-2022 – Distinguished Speaker Series Committee Member
- 2021-2022 – Faculty and Student Symposia Committee Member
- 2020-2021 – Editor for the Rutgers Art Review
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Guest Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania. April 2024. Art and Medicine, Instructor Benjamin Farr. Lectured on perceptions of the physical form in the Soviet context. Reading assignments included selections from Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960 by Amy Brygzel, “”I am a radioactive mutant”: Emergent biological subjectivities at Kazakhstan’s Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site” by Magdalena Stawkowski, and “Necro-Utopia: The Politics of Indistinction and the Aesthetics of the Non-Soviet” by Alexei Yurchak.
- Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. January 2019 – May 2019 Surveying the Shadows, Professor Simon Anderson. Provided one-on-one student help, conducted museum visits, delivered occasional in-class lectures, maintained student emails and inquiries. Supervised students’ research papers, advising them on topics, sources, research and writing techniques; supplied extensive feedback on paper outlines and drafts.
- Instructor of Record, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. August 2018 – December 2018 Advanced History of World Art: Prehistory-1850, Professor James Elkins. Designed and delivered lecture on 1600-1850 (covering the Tanzimat era of the Ottoman Empire, Russian Enlightenment, and other themes related to the transition into modernity). Lectured on Inca Civilization, Mali Empire, and Yoruba Culture; designed lesson plans and assignments Instructed students in historical methodology, research techniques, writing skills. Advised students on papers, evaluated drafts, assessed final papers.
- Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. August 2017 – May 2018 World Cultures/Civilizations: Prehistory-19th Century, Professor Daniel Merkle. Provided one-on-one student help, conducted museum visits, delivered occasional in-class lectures, maintained student emails and inquiries. Supervised students’ research papers, advising them on topics, sources, research and writing techniques; supplied extensive feedback on paper outlines and drafts.