is an independent curator who presently resides in San Sebastián,
Spain for the duration of Manifesta 5 (2003-2004). Kuzma has served
as the Artistic Director of WPA, in Washington, DC (2000-2002) where
she reinitiated the programme with The Mutable Monument, an international
project approaching revisions in the notion of monument. From 1991
1999, she served as Artistic Director of the Soros Center
for Contemporary Art in Ukraine where she curated numerous exhibitions
including Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective (1996); Alchemic Surrender
aboard the nuclear battleship Slavutych in Sevastopol (1994); and
The Crimean Project in Livadia Palace (1998). Prior to Kyiv, she
head the International Exhibitions Programme at the International
Center of Photography, NYC. Kuzma studied at Barnard College/Columbia
University, NYC, and completed her post graduate degree in Aesthetics
and Art Theory at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex
University, London. She has served on the jury of the DAAD panel
for artist residency for 2003 and 2004 and is a visiting lecturer
to the postgraduate programme at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
At present, she is curating a project with Dan Graham entitled Passaic
to open in NYC in 2004.
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