Natalia Kurchanova, PhD, LP is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice and advanced candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City.

Before becoming a psychoanalyst, she has been studying, writing about, and curating art, with a particular emphasis on the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century as well as post-war and contemporary art, photography and film. She has taught classes on 20th-century art and photography at Hunter College, Rutgers University, and the Pratt Institute.

Natalia received a Ph.D. from the City University of New York in Art History and a B.A. from Wesleyan University in the same discipline. She used an abbreviated version of her name, Natasha Kurchanova, as a pseudonym to publish her scholarly articles in such journals as October, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Experiment and several anthologies and exhibition catalogues. She has also curated an exhibition “Who’s Afraid of Ornament?” at Nurture Art Gallery in Brooklyn and been contributing exhibition reviews and interviews with artists for such publications as Studio International, Bomb Magazine, Brooklyn Rail and others. She has been on the editorial board of The Candidate Journal: Psychoanalytic Currents and member of Das Unbehagen, a Free Association for Psychoanalysis.