Jordan Troeller is an art historian, curator, and art writer focusing on modern and contemporary art. She has published widely on European and American art and photography from the early twentieth-century to the present. Her books include Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury, published with MIT Press in 2025, and Lucia Moholy: Exposures, which accompanied the exhibition that originated at the Kunsthalle Praha and traveled to the Fotostiftung Winterthur (Hatje Cantz, 2024). She holds the Volkswagen Foundation Junior Professorship of Contemporary Art History and Aesthetic Practice at Leuphana Universität in Lüneburg, Germany.

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Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother (MIT Press, 2025) was released on May 6 and is available for purchase. A recent review was published on Hyperallergic.

Upcoming talks in 2025 include: a contribution to a symposium on Lygia Clark on Oct. 1-2; as part of her retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin; and on Nov. 6-8 a lecture on the work Tristan au Kasaï (2024) by a contemporary collective of Kuba female textile artists employing strategies of “rematriation” in the context of the applied arts, organized by the research group Intervenierende Künste (Freie Universität Berlin).

On February 2, I spoke at the ARTE film premiere in Berlin of Sigrid Faltin’s new documentary Lucia Moholy: Die Bauhaus-Fotografin. The film, which features the exhibition I co-curated, will be broadcast on ARTE on April 6 at 4:20pm (CET) can be seen online at Arte’s Mediathek until July 4. It premiered in London at The Courtauld on March 7.

I received the 2023 Gender and Diversity Award from Leuphana University.