Margarita Tupitsyn earned her PhD in art history at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has worked as guest curator for institutions such as Queens Museum in New York, Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Guggenheim Museum, and Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, and was curator at the Contemporary Russian Art Center of America in New York. Tupitsyn has also been a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, the State University of New York at Purchase, and the New School for Social Research. Tupitsyn has written numerous articles, catalogue essays, and reviews on contemporary Soviet and Russian art, and has delivered lectures at academic and professional institutions all over the world. Of the nine books she has published, her most recent are: El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet (Yale University Press and Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 1999); Aleksandr Rodchenko. The New Moscow (Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 1998); Kriticheskoe Opticheskoe (Ad Marginem, Moscow, 1997); The Soviet Photograph, 1924-37 (Yale University Press, 1996); Utopia, Ilusion Y Adaptacion: Arte Sovietico 1928-1945 (IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain, 1996).