About

Jillian Russo is a Brooklyn-based curator and art historian. She has organized numerous exhibitions including Wild and Brilliant: The Martha Jackson Gallery and Post-War Art (Hollis Taggart Gallery),  To Live is to Paint: Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, Dorothy Dehner and American Modernism (The Art Students League), and On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at the Art Students League of New York (The Art Students League). She has written articles for American Quarterly, CAA Reviews, Panorama, Public Art Dialogue, 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 early American modernist period to the present.

You can view her CV on LinkedIn.  If you’re interested in collaborating, please reach out!