Dr. Kristin Romberg

Biography

Kristin Romberg (Ph.D., Columbia University) teaches courses on modern contemporary art and is especially interested in forms of knowledge, perception, and the material world reorganized by moments of political, cultural, and epistemic revolution. Her scholarship focuses primarily on Russia and the early Soviet Union. Romberg is the author of "Gan's Constructivism: Aesthetic Theory Embedded Modernism" (University of California Press, 2018). Her writing has appeared in "Artforum," "Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne," and the anthology "Formy struktury. Antologiia rossiiskogo modernizma." She has contributed to several museum exhibitions, including "Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: Artist Reinvented" (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2020), "Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test" (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), and "Architecture Print: Design Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919-1935" (Wallach Art Gallery, 2005). Her research has been supported by organizations such as the American Council of Teachers of Russian, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the Getty Research Institute. At UIUC, Romberg’s primary affiliation is with the Art History Program in the School of Art & Design.

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