Natalia Murray was born and educated in St Petersburg where she received her BA and MA in art history, before gaining her PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
At present, she works as an independent curator and an associate lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has curated Revolution. Russian Art. 1917-1932 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (2017) and The World as Objectlessness. The Birth of a New Art which traces development of the new art in Vitebsk from Chagall to Malevich, at the Yeltsin Centre in Yekaterinburg (October 2021).
Her books include Two Women Patrons of the Russian Avant-Garde. Nadezhda Dobychina and Klavdia Mikhailova (Unicorn, 2021); Art for the Workers. Proletarian Art and Festive Decorations of Petrograd. 1917-1920 (Brill, 2018); and The Unsung Hero of the Russian Avant-Garde. The Life and Times of Nikolay Punin (Brill, 2012), published in a Russian translation (‘Slovo’, 2018).
