Margarita Tupitsyn

author

Russian-American[3,4] b. 1955, Moscow, Russia[1,2] active 1975–present

Margarita Tupitsyn is a Russian-born American art historian, independent curator, and critic. She moved to the United States in 1975 and received her Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Tupitsyn began organizing exhibitions of contemporary Soviet art in the late 1970s and has since become a prominent scholar of Russian avant-garde and conceptual art. She has served as a guest curator for various institutions, including the Queens Museum, Sprengel Museum, Guggenheim Museum, and Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.[1,2,3,4]

  • Russian avant-garde
  • Soviet photography
  • Moscow conceptualism
  • Contemporary Russian art

Books

Works by Margarita Tupitsyn

  • 1998 Aleksandr Rodchenko: The New Moscow Schirmer Art Books · book · English · ISBN 388814602X Photographs from the L. and G. Tatunz Collection.
  • 1989 Margins of Soviet Art book
  • 1996 The Soviet Photograph, 1924-1937 Yale University Press · book
  • 2017 Moscow Vanguard Art: 1922-1992 Yale University Press · book

Exhibitions

  • 1999 Aleksandr Rodchenko: The New Moscow Sprengel Museum, Hanover · group

References

  1. Margarita Tupitsyn - About. Independent Curators International link
  2. Margarita Tupitsyn Art Historian and Curator. MoMA Post link
  3. Margarita Tupitsyn. Center for the Humanities link
  4. Margarita Tupitsyn. Stanford University link