Tatiana Kolodzei is a curator, art historian, and the Founder and Co-Chair of the Kolodzei Art Foundation (a US-based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public foundation established in 1991). She is the founder and, along with Natalia Kolodzei, owner of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, which contains over 7,000 artworks paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photography, kinetic, and digital art by more than 300 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Ms. Kolodzei started the collection in Moscow in the mid-1960s during the height of the Cold War. The collection chronicles six decades of nonconformist and contemporary art from the Khrushchev Thaw to the present. As a curator, Ms. Kolodzei organized many exhibitions in the US, Europe, and the former Soviet Union of works by nonconformist artists. Notably, she was one of the curators of the historic 1975 nonconformist show at the Palace of Culture at the All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh) in Moscow. She has also contributed to multiple publications which feature selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection.