Curator Name: Lilia Kudelia
Residency Dates: 2021-2023
Born: 1989
Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine
Lives & Works: Dallas, TX
URL: liliakudelia.com | Instagram: @liliakudelia
Education: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Bio/Statement:
Lilia Kudelia is a curator and art historian whose research interests span across modern and contemporary movements with particular focus on the visual arts in the post-communist states and the intersection of art and technology. She is the Visual Resource Curator at the Art & Art History Department at the University of Texas Arlington and also serves as a curator at the Ukrainian Museum in New York. Previously she held curatorial and research positions at Dallas Contemporary in Dallas, TX, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and Art Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2017, Kudelia co-curated Ukrainian National Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale that featured work by photographer Boris Mikhailov. Kudelia has an MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, a BA in Cultural Studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, Canada.
As Guest curator at RU, Lilia places an emphasis on increasing support for the artists from Central and Eastern Europe and focuses on the YVAA artists in residence. The Young Visual Artists Awards (YVAA) is a network of twelve national awards that provide young artists from Eastern, Central and Southern Europe with a two month residency hosted by Residency Unlimited (RU) in New York on an annual basis since 2015. The finalists are selected by a panel in each country organized by local partnering organizations. The program is supported by Trust for Mutual Understanding.
