Magdalena Moskalewicz

Art historian, curator, and editor specializing in postwar Polish and Eastern European art, critical museum studies, and contemporary practices. Her curatorial projects often explore parallels between the postcommunist and postcolonial condition. She published in academic books (from Brill, Routledge, Oxford Univ. Press, MSN), exhibition catalogues (from MoMA, Tate, Berlin Biennale), journals and magazines (Artium Quaestiones, Art in America, The Washington Post). Moskalewicz was awarded Jean Goldman „Literary Lions” Book Prize 2017 (for Halka/Haiti) and Mary Zirin Prize 2020 from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies; her research was supported by A.W. Mellon Foundation, Kosciuszko Foundation, The Getty, The Clark, et al. She worked in higher education and art institutions in Europe and the United States, including: Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, FRONT International in Cleveland, and was the curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 56^th Venice Biennale (2015). Currently Chief Curator and Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs at Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.