REGINA KHIDEKEL, FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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RACC Director Dr. Regina Khidekel
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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. in Theory and History of Art in 1978 at the Academy of Fine Art in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russia. She 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), and Family Album: Jewish Artists from St. Petersburg (2006).
Dr. Khidekel collaborates with the museums and in 1998 she curated the highly regarded exhibition It's the Real Thing. Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. The exhibition ran three months and along with a book of the same name published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1998, was widely reviewed in press and art magazines. Dr. Khidekel's curatorial experience of joined exhibitions of Russian and American artists, started in 1995 with the Exhibition "5 + 5" at the Educational Alliance in Lower Manhattan, is bringing an unique prospective to the Center's program.
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. She is also a frequent contributor to the Russian press and TV, and the ARTNews magazine in New York.
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.
Publications
Catalogues/Books
- Liubov Popova, 1994, NY
- Sterligov Group: Paintings From Russia, 1995, NY
- Lazar Khidekel: Suprematism and Architecture, 1995, NY
- Constructivist Roots: Contemporary Concern, 1997, The Art Gallery University of Maryland
- Traditionalist Rebels in Forbidden Art, 1998, D.A.P./Dist. Art Publishers, NY
- It's the Real Thing" Soviet & Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art, 1998, Minnesota University Press
- Lev Meshberg, 1999, Franklin Bowles Galleries, NY
- Tamar Hirschl, 2000, Gregory Gallery, NY
- Malevich's Circle, 2001, State Russian Museum, St.. Petersburg
- Surviving Suprematism, 2004, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley
- Family Album: Jewish Artists from St. Petersburg, 2006
- ARTNews magazine
- Russian-speaking publications in the USA, Russia, etc.
- Russian Avant-garde Stage Design, Rome, Italy, 1999
- OISTAT Exhibits in Russia, Poland, Czechoslovak
- The New York Times
- The ARTNews
- The New Yorker
- The New York Sun
- The Daily News
- The New York Post
- ARTNews
- The Jewish Press
- The Jewish Week
- The Forward
- The Paper Magazine
- Downtown Express
- Capital Prospective
- Traveling Today
- Cultural Guide for Downtown
- NY Contemporary Art Galleries Guide
- Voices of Lower Manhattan
- Novoye Russkoye Slovo, Vecherni New York
- Russian Life
- Featured in "Russian Story" on the International Channel
- Who's Who in America/in the World
- Voice of America, Liberty, New Life, RTN, RTVI, CBS, Manhattan Channel
Member of the Russian Union of Artists
International Art Critic Association
Russian American Civic Association (Board of Directors)
International Immigrant Foundation (Board of Directors)
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