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A native of Romania who left Bucharest as a political dissident when she was 18 years old, Roxana Marcoci landed in New York City, via Paris, and began studying art history, taking the first steps along a path that would lead to the Museum of Modern Art, where she is currently the David Dechman Senior Curator and Acting Chief Curator of Photography.

Her mother was an actress and her father was an architectural draftsman, and the visual and performing arts, she says, were always part of her life. As an undergraduate at Hunter, and then at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, she studied with some of the art world’s heavy-hitters: Craig Owens and Maurice Berger at Hunter, Kirk Varnedoe and Robert Rosenblum at the Institute, where her PhD thesis was on Constantin Brancusi.

Though her studies focused on painting and sculpture, she ultimately found herself in MoMA’s photography department, where she has organized numerous exhibitions, including, most recently, Wolfgang Tillmans: To look withou