REGINA KHIDEKEL, FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dr. Regina Khidekel is a renowned art historian and curator both in the United States and in Russia. Dr. Khidekel received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and has a high level of professional experience as an art critic, curator, and expert on Russian and Jewish 20th century art. In 1990, she assumed the position of Art Director of the Diaghilev Art Center (1990), which was the first unofficial art organization in St. Petersburg after perestroika, and in 1998, she founded the Russian American Cultural Center in New York.
In the United States since 1993, she has already made her mark on the NYC art scene. Dr. Khidekel’s professional career has also been well established through her publications of numerous articles in ARTNews, museum and gallery catalogs, and the Russian-speaking press and TV in New York. She guided the conceptual framework and curatorial choices for exhibitions and contributed to the catalogs such as Liubov Popova (1994), Lazar Khidekel: Suprematism and Architecture (1995), Sterligov Group: Paintings from Russia (1995), Constructivist Roots: Contemporary Concern (1997), Forbidden Art (1998), Lev Mezsberg (1999), Tamar Hirschl (1999), Malevich’s Circle (2000), Surviving Suprematism (2004), Family Album. Jewish Artists from St. Petersburg (2006).
Dr. Khidekel’s book “It’s the Real Thing”. Soviet & Post-Soviet Sots Art & American Pop Art was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1998 in conjunction with the exhibition at Weisman Art Museum.
Dr. Khidekel participated in the International Symposium at Yale University with her paper, A creation of a New Visual World (1997), as well as in conferences at Maryland College Park University, Fairfield University, CT, and The Judah Magnes Museum, CA. Dr. Khidekel has lectured on art history and the Russian avant-garde at Columbia University, Bryn Mawr, Parsons School of American Design, and Cooper- Hewitt Masters Program.
In addition, Dr. Khidekel has curated a number of highly acclaimed exhibits focused on comparative studies on Russian and American art. Through this focus, Dr. Khidekel became aware of the necessity to found an organization, which would aim to integrate Russian-speaking and American communities, as well as participating artists and audiences. Thus, she started the Russian American Cultural Center (RACC) in 1998, and since then has been promoting art exhibits, literature and performance events, concerts, and intellectual forums.
Dr. Khidekel also continues to foster a series of international exchange programs between Russian and Russian émigré artists in the USA, Israel, and Germany.
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JOANNE STRASSER, VOLUNTEER
Joanne Strasser holds a B.A. in German and Russian language and literature from Brandeis University and an M.A. from the New School for Social Research with a concentration in Russian-American culture post-1978. Joanne is currently working towards her Ph.D. in cultural sociology also at the New School. She is recognized as one of the up and coming young scholars in her field and specializes in ex-Soviet Jewish Culture in NYC. Joanne spent two years at the Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin on a fellowship from the German Government, where she focused on European Cultural Studies.
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