Margarita Tupitsyn

Margarita Tupitsyn is an independent scholar and curator. Born in Moscow, Tupitsyn moved to New York in 1975, where she received her Ph.D from the City University of New York.

Tupitsyn began to write about and organize exhibitions of contemporary Soviet art in the late 1970s. Her first exhibition, Russian New Wave, in 1981, introduced the now acclaimed Moscow conceptual art circle to American audiences. While curator of the Contemporary Russian Art Center in SoHo from 1981 to 1984, she worked on the Norton Dodge collection. In 1986, she curated an exhibition of Sots Art at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and published the first theoretical account of this movement.