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Esther Moerdler is the Curatorial Assistant at the Art Students League of New York. In her career to date, she has worked across a variety of institutions in the art world: including museums, auction houses, galleries, and art-tech startups. She holds a BA in Art History and History from Barnard College of Columbia University and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London.
Jillian Russo is a Brooklyn-based curator, writer, and art historian. She served as Gallery Director and Curator for the Art Students League from 2013-2018 and as Director of Exhibitions at Hollis Taggart from 2019-2021. She currently runs her own agency, providing writing, research, and curatorial services to galleries, museums and artist estates. She has organized numerous exhibitions including Wild and Brilliant: The Martha Jackson Gallery and Post-War Art (Hollis Taggart Gallery), a tribute to the trailblazing mid-century gallerist and To Live is to Paint: Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, Dorothy Dehner and American Modernism (The Art Students League). She has written articles for American Quarterly, CAA Reviews, Panorama, Public Art Dialogue, Woman’s Art Journal, and The Brooklyn Rail. She received her PhD from the Graduate Center, CUNY with a focus on modern and post-war American art. Her areas of interest span the late nineteenth century to the present.
Ksenia Nouril is a New York-based art historian, curator, and arts administrator. She is the Assistant Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. From September 2022 to January 2025, she served as the Gallery Director and Curator at The Art Students League of New York. She holds a BA in Art History and Slavic Studies from New York University and an MA and PhD in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Pam Koob joined the staff of The Art Students League of New York in 1998 as the Curator of the Permanent Collection and Exhibitions. Early students and instructors at the League had volunteered to help maintain a collection of art that would reflect students’ accomplishments over the years and also serve as a teaching resource. Koob took on the job of continuing their work and building on it, cataloging, expanding and writing on the collection. A graduate of Stanford University and Hunter College, CUNY, she has written on a variety of topics in 20th-century American art and most recently co-authored Max Weber and American Cubism with William C. Agee. She retired from the Arts Students League in 2013.