Katya Kudryavtseva
Associate Professor of Art History
Katya Kudryavtseva is an art historian and curator of the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection at the Hand Art Center. She specializes in twentieth-century art with a focus on the intersecting trajectories of art history, politics, art institutions, and business and their role in the development of the canon of modern and contemporary art. She has curated a range of exhibitions that offer an exploration of these themes, illuminating the complex dynamics that shape artistic movements and cultural narratives.
- PhD, University of Southern California
- MA, University of Oklahoma
- BA, Russian State University for the Humanities
Biography
Kudryavtseva teaches an array of courses on modern and contemporary art, curatorial practice, the art market, and art law, and supervises the newly established Museum and Curatorial Studies major. Her students not only curate exhibitions at various venues on the Stetson campus but also receive comprehensive training and insights into the complexities of the art world, preparing them for successful careers in various art-related fields.
More About Katya Kudryavtseva
Areas of Expertise
- Art History
- Museum and Curatorial Studies
Course Sampling
- Arts and Revolution: Visual Arts
- Art Trials: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Justice
- Issues in Contemporary Art
- Art Market and Institutions
- Curating Visual Culture
- Curation: Practicum
- Exhibition Concept Development and Design
- Historiography and canon formation
- Collecting and display
- Curation
- Art Market
- The Economics of Oscar Bluemners Art (Hand Art Center, Fall 2024)
- Margaret Bourke-Whites Soviet Photographs, 1930-1932 (Hand Art Center, Spring 2024)
- The Beauty of Politics: Oscar Bluemner and Luca Molnar (Hand Art Center, Spring 2024)
- The Artists Labor: Oscar Bluemner and Mario Saponaro (Hand Art Center, Fall 2023)
- Bluemner at Stetson: Exhibition History (Hand Art Center, Spring 2021)
- Malchish-Kibalchish The Soviet Superhero (Hand Art Center, Fall 2020)
- The Making of Kazimir Malevich's Black Square (Moscow: NLO, 2017)