Andrey Shabanov is an art historian and curator. His teaching and research centres on institutional art history and the theory and history of art exhibitions and curatorial practice. Having received an MA in art history from the European University at Saint Petersburg, he completed his PhD in 2013 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. His first monograph Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia. The Peredvizhniki, a Partnership of Artists was published in Russian (EUSP PRESS, 2016) and in English (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). His new book An Introduction to Institutional Art History. The Academy, Exhibition, and Museum in Europe in the Modern Era is forthcoming this Spring.