A native of Romania who left Bucharest as a political dissident when she was 18 years old, Roxana Marcoci landed in New York City, via Paris, and began studying art history, taking the first steps along a path that would lead to the Museum of Modern Art, where she is currently the David Dechman Senior Curator and Acting Chief Curator of Photography. Her mother was an actress and her father was an architectural draftsman, and the visual and performing arts, she says, were always part of her life. As an undergraduate at Hunter, and then at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, she studied with some of the art world’s heavy-hitters: Craig Owens and Maurice Berger at Hunter, Kirk Varnedoe and Robert Rosenblum at the Institute, where her PhD thesis was on Constantin Brancusi. Though her studies focused on painting and sculpture, she ultimately found herself in MoMA’s photography department, where she has organized numerous exhibitions, including, most recently, Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear, which closed on January 1, , after a nearly four-month run. She’s now working on An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux Rivières, which opens this fall. Marcoci spoke t
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Roxana Marcoci, Critic in Photography
Ms. Marcoci received a Ph.D. in art history, theory, and criticism from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in She is senior curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, where her most recent exhibitions are The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook; and Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII (both ). In she was a fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. Other MoMA exhibitions accompanied by major publications include the retrospective Sanja Ivekovi´c: Sweet Violence (); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, to Today (); PicturesRoxana Marcoci
Roxana Marcoci is the David Dechman Senior Curator and Acting Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. She holds a PhD in art history, theory, and criticism from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She is a recipient of the Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellowship. Marcoci has chaired the Central and Eastern European group (–23) and is currently the inaugural Chair of the West Asia group of MoMA’s Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) program. In Marcoci cofounded MoMA’s Forums on Contemporary Photography, an experimental platform for free-form critical discussions about the perspectives and scope of image-making among artists, curators, and cultural theorists. Her research engages transnational and diasporic histories of feminist art and new models of solidarity. Marcoci has published over 50 essays on modern and contemporary art and co-authored the three-volume Photography at MoMA (/17).
Marcoci has curated numerous exhibitions, including LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity (); An-My Lê, Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières (); Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear (), wh
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art historian
Roxana Marcoci, Romanian art historian. Member College Art Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Delta Phi.
Background
Marcoci, Roxana was born on January 18, in Bucharest, Romania. Daughter of Constantin and Luis (Derderian) Marcoci. came to the United States,
Education
Bachelor summa cum laude, Hunter College, ; Master of Arts, New York University, ; Doctor of Philosophy, New York University,
Career
Teaching assistant, Hunter College, New York City, ; photo researcher, art editor, Harry N. Abram, New York City, ; professor art history, Christie&#;s, New York City, since Adjunct Professor Hunter College, , Guest lecturer DIA Center for Arts, New York City,
Consultant in field.
Achievements
Roxana Marcoci has been listed as a noteworthy art historian by Marquis Who&#;s Who.
Membership
Member College Art Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Delta Phi.
Interests
Avocations: reading, travel, film.
Connections
Married Boris Musteata, June 28, (divorced March ). 1 child, Natalie Marie-Christine. Married Cristian
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