The Art Students League

Michael Hall has served as the Artistic & Executive Director of the Art Students League of New York since 2020. Previously he has worked for Art Basel as the Global Head of Operations & Logistics, managing the fair’s production in Basel, Miami, and Hong Kong. A practicing artist himself who frequently collaborates with artists on independent projects, Hall brings the combined experience of organizational leadership, art world knowledge, and artistic practice to the position.

Ksenia Nouril is the Gallery Director and Curator of Exhibitions & Programs at the Art Students League of New York. Previously, she has held curatorial positions at The Print Center, Philadelphia; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick; and Bruce Museum, Greenwich. Ksenia has published three books: Carmen Winant: A Brand New End (The Print Center, 2022); Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov: Stories About Ourselves (Rutgers University Press, 2019); Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (MoMA, 2018). She holds a BA in Art History and Slavic Studies from New York University and a MA and PhD in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Stephanie Cassidy is a historian, editor, and documentarian with over twenty years of experience at the Art Students League of New York. She is currently the Head of Research and Archives at the League.

Sculptor and journalist William Corwin is from New York. He has exhibited at galleries in New York, London, Hamburg, Beijing and Taipei. He has written regularly for The Brooklyn Rail, Artpapers, Bomb, Artcritical, Raintaxi and Canvas. Most recently he curated and wrote the catalog for Postwar Women at The Art Students League in New York, an exhibition of the school’s alumnae active between 1945-65, and 9th Street Club, and exhibitions of Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Mercedes Matter, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner and Elaine Dekooning at Gazelli Art House in Mayfair. He is the editor of Formalism; Collected Essays of Saul Ostrow, (2020).