Nadezhda Gribkova is an art historian based in Chicago.

She has published and presented on topics such as mass spectacles commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Jewish Modernism, late-Soviet performance, conceptual art in Eastern Europe, and NFT art.

Her academic interests include Russian Modernism and European Avant Garde, 20th-century religious thought in Eastern Europe, Cold War era art and literary practices, and blockchain art.

Gribkova is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. While at UIC, she completed a thesis that examined the early works of the Soviet conceptual performance group Collective Actions (founded in 1976), investigating its uniquely aesthetic and social approach to the motif of emptiness, which permeated works of conceptual art in both the Soviet Union and the West. She has designed and taught undergraduate-level Art History courses.

Currently, Nadezhda is a doctoral student in the Slavic Languages and Literatures department at the University of Chicago.