Anna Jozefacka

Anna Jozefacka is an art historian and curator based in New York whose research spans a wide range of topics within modern art, architecture, and design. She has a long track record of studying Picasso. Among her recent projects on the subject is the exhibition Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn, (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2023-2024) about the unrealized painting commission Picasso received from the American artist, collector, and critic Hamilton Easter Field in 1909, and the essay “Private Rooms of the Cubist Still Life,” in Domestic Space in France and Belgium: Art, Literature and Design (1850-1920) (Bloomsbury 2022). Since 2014 she has also been working collaboratively with Luise Mahler on the dissemination of cubism in Central and Eastern Europe. Among their forthcoming and recent co-authored publications are “Waiting for Three Musicians: G. F. and Erna Reber’s First Picassos” (2025), “Two Picassos in Prague: Paul Rosenberg’s Contribution” (to be published in Czech in 2025) and “Reading Picasso in Munich and Prague in 1922” (Umění/Art 2022). Her research in these areas has been supported by fellowships from the Czech Academy of Science (2019) and the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art (2015-2017). Jozefacka earned her doctorate from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 2011.