Ksenia Nouril is the Assistant Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art. Formerly, she was the Gallery Director and Curator of Exhibitions & Programming at The Art Students League of New York. She previously served as the Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center in Philadelphia; Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) Fellow for Eastern European Art at The Museum of Modern Art in New York; and Dodge Fellow for Soviet Nonconformist Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She also has organized exhibitions at the Bruce Museum and Lower East Side Printshop. She lectures widely and frequently writes for international exhibition catalogues, magazines, and academic journals, including ARTMargins Online, the Calvert Journal, the Institute of the Present, OSMOS Magazine, and Woman’s Art Journal. She has published three books: Carmen Winant, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (editor and contributor; The Print Center, 2022); Dialogues: Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, Stories About Ourselves (editor and contributor; Rutgers University Press, 2019); and Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (co-editor and contributor; MoMA, 2018). 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.
Rajyashri Goody (b. 1990) queries food and water politics, Ambedkarite Buddhist practices, literacy and Dalit literature, and mobility and place-making in the context of caste-based violence and Dalit resistance in India. She works primarily with paper pulp, clay, text, photography, and printmaking. What follows is an abbreviated account of Goody’s session with the C-MAP Bombay/Mumbai Group.…
C-MAP Africa in Morocco: Reflections from the 2026 Research Trip From February 5 to 11, 2026, members of the C-MAP Africa group from The Museum of Modern Art traveled to Morocco on a research trip that included several cities: Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, and Tétouan. Over the course of the visit, the group met with…
Members of MoMA’s C-MAP Central and Eastern European group reflect on their research trip to Warsaw and Łódź, Poland and Berlin, Germany, which took place in late May / early June, 2016. Over the course of a week, the 14 travelers met with over 70 individuals, including artists, curators, dealers, and art historians; conducted two…
Ksenia Nouril, C-MAP Fellow for Central and Eastern European Art at MoMA, researched Modern art and met with contemporary artists on a recent trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, an Imperial city that weaves classical traditions with contemporary sensibilities. In 1833, Russian Romantic poet Aleksandr Pushkin described St. Petersburg as a “northern prodigy” with “granite banks”…
Just a few days into his trip to Moscow in the winter of 1927–28, Alfred Barr wrote in his diary, “Apparently there is no place where talent of an artistic or literary sort is so carefully nurtured as in Moscow. . . . We’d rather be here than any place on earth.”* He went on…
