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Yassana Croizat-Glazer founded YCG Fine Art in the spring of 2017. After receiving her Ph.D. in French Renaissance art from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, Yassana taught art history at NYU. In 2010, she was named a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and was subsequently named assistant curator in that department.

Yassana’s exhibitions include: OFF CANVAS (12/20-02/21) in collaboration with A Women’s Thing Magazine, Allen Hirsch: Up Lafayette Street (02/21-05/21), Morgan Everhart: Flesh and Bloom at the David Owsley Museum of Art (05/21-06/21), and BLISS (11/21-01/22). Yassana is currently working on an essay about the history of women in relation to the silk industry in Europe for the exhibition catalogue of “What a Woman Can Do” to be held at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario (2023-24).

In addition to contributing a column titled “Past Matters” to A Women’s Thing, Yassana has authored several scholarly publications, including:

  • Yassana Croizat-Glazer and Sarah Harris Weiss, eds., Exploration and Revelation: French Renaissance Studies in Honor of Colin Eisler. University of Toronto Press, 2020.

  • “Fleeting, Floating, Flying: Morgan Everhart’s Floral Compositions and the Meanings of Gravity.” In Morgan Everhart: Flowers For My Failures, ed. Alex Grabiec. Exh. cat., Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, 2019.

  • “The Role of Ancient Egypt in Masquerades at the Court of François Ier (r. 1515-1547).” Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Winter 2013): 1206-1249.

  • “Sin and Redemption in The Hours of François I (1539-1540) by the Master of François de Rohan.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, Vol. 48 (2013): 121-142.

  • Entry for a Cabinet (Dressoir) in the Style of Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau, in Georges Hoentschel: Collector, Designer, Architect in Belle-Époque Paris, April 4-August 11, 2013. Exhibition Catalogue. New Haven; London: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Yale University Press. pp. 184-86.

  • “‘Living Dolls’: François Ier Dresses His Women.” Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, No.1 (Spring 2007): 94-130. (Under the name Yassana C. Croizat).

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