Biography
Michaela Milgrom is a PhD student working on twentieth-century American art. Her research addresses questions of abstraction, subjectivity, gender, and cliché. She is particularly interested in women painters whose earnest commitment to modern forms and ideas left their work out of step with the advances of American art history after abstract expressionism. Before graduate school, Michaela was Research Assistant for Mark Rothko Projects at the National Gallery of Art. There, she contributed to the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper (2023-24) and authored entries for the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Rothko’s works on paper. Michaela holds an MA with distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA summa cum laude from Princeton University, where her senior thesis was awarded the Irma S. Seitz Prize and the Grace May Tilton Prize. She is a Neubauer Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellow.