Olga Kopenkina, a curator and critic born in Belarus, based in New York since 1999. She graduated from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in 2001. Her exhibitions and projects include Brewster 2003 Collaboration, New York; Post-Diasporas: Voyages and Missions at the First Moscow Biennale, Moscow (2005); Russia: Significant Other, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg (2006); Terror Tactics, a film program at apexart, New York (2007), Properly Past at BRIC Rotunda, Brooklyn, 2008, Reading Lenin with Corporations, PS 122, New York, 2008. Kopenkina has written for such publications as Moscow Art Magazine, ArtMargins, Rethinking Marxism, Modern Painters, Afterimage.