Laili Nasr

Laili Nasr is an art historian at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Her areas of specialty are modern and contemporary art. She started her career managing commercial art galleries. Currently, she is the Project Manager and co-author of the forthcoming Online Resource and Catalogue Raisonne of the works of the prominent Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko. Prior to that, she was a lecturer on modern art, an educator, a guest curator, as well as researcher and project coordinator at the National Gallery of Art and a number of other public and private art institutions. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and French Literature from Tufts University, a Master of Arts in Art History and Museum Management from Boston University and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and a PhD in Art History and Museum Studies from the George Washington University.