Jillian Russo

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) 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.