Margarita Masterkova-Tupitsyna

Margarita Masterkova-Tupitsyna is an independent curator, art historian, and critic. She received her PhD from the City University of New York. From 1981 to 1983, she was the curator of the Center for Contemporary Russian Art in America (New York), where she organized the first exhibitions of Moscow conceptualists and Sots artists. Select exhibitions include Sots Art (New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1986), The Green Show (Exit Art, New York, 1990), Malevich and Film (Belem Cultural Center, Lisbon, 2002), Against Kandinsky (Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2006), Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism (Tate Modern, London, 2009), and Russian Dada (Museo Nacional de Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2018). In 2015, she curated the Russian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Margarita is the author of exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and monographs, including Margins of Soviet Art (1989), The Soviet Photograph, 1924–1937 (1996), Anti-shows: APTART 1982–84 (2017), and Moscow Vanguard Art: 1922–1992 (2017). Her writings have been published in Art in America, Artforum, Art Journal, and Flash Art. In 2000, she received the Berlin Prize Fellow from the American Academy in Berlin. In 2001, she was awarded an honorary grant from the Kandinsky Society at the Pompidou Center (Paris) and in 2011, a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. 

She lives and works in New York.