T H E   T E A M

Mila Ovchinnikova ​
Founding Director

Mila was born in Siberia, Russia. In her early 20s, she moved to Canada where she completed Arts Management program at the University of Toronto, specializing in management of not-for-profit organizations and diversity and pluralism in the Arts and Culture. While majoring in Art History at the University of Virginia, USA, she focused on the late 19th century and 20th century Modern Art. Since completing her studies, for over 10 years she has served diverse communities in various regional and nation-wide roles, while working with hundreds of cultural institutions in both visual and performing art sectors in North America. After moving to France in 2016, Mila founded L'AiR Arts, an artist-in-residence program, expanding it from a small residency at a historical artist studio in the French countryside to an international group residency in the heart of Paris. 

Elise Oudot
​FIAP Host, Responsable du service culture

​Elise's educational background is in Cultural Management (Faculty of Burgundy) and Scenography (Paris-Villette Theatre).

​As a head of cultural services at FIAP, Elise implements all the cultural activities at the centre with the objective to facilitate intercultural exchange and foster global citizenship.

​On behalf of her team at FIAP, Elise is pleased to diversify Centre's offerings by hosting the international artist residency program in partnership with L'AiR Arts. ​

Lillian Davies
Artistic Programming

​Lillian Davies is a writer, editor and curator based in Paris. Her articles and reviews regularly appear in Artforum magazine, as well as other international publications including Objektiv and Flash Art. Author of Suspect Language: Mounir Fatmi (Skira), she is also co-editor and contributing author of Collecting Contemporary Art (JRP Ringier) and contributor to books on modern and contemporary art published by Phaidon. Previously editor-in-chief of UOVO magazine, she has also held the position of Editorial Assistant at Tate Publishing, working on exhibition catalogues and titles such as Oiticica in London and Claude Cahun: Disavowals. Former member of the faculty at Parsons Paris and Paris College of Art, she has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Recently, she presented her research at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Sciences Sociales, Paris and the Akademie der Kunste de Welt, Cologne. She has placed curatorial projects at Brachfeld Gallery, Paris and Gasworks, London, and has also worked as a researcher and exhibitions assistant at Artangel, Gagosian Gallery, Guggenheim Museum and Tate Modern. Lillian has a BA in Art History and Comparative Religions from Columbia University, an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, and recently conducted doctoral research at the Ecole du Louvre. 

Raina Lampkins-Fielder
​​Residency Curator 

​Raina Lampkins-Fielder  is a Paris-based curator and cultural programmer. Formerly, she was the artistic director of the Mona Bismarck American Center focusing on 20th  century and contemporary American art and the deputy editor of SOME/THINGS Magazine, a bi-annual international curated arts and culture journal, and director of arts programming at SOME/THINGS SECRET Gallery in Paris. She was the director of academic advising at Paris College of Art (formerly Parsons Paris School of Art + Design). Previously, she served as Associate Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, overseeing education and public programs. She has worked for over 20 years in museums and cultural institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Raina has curated many exhibitions, served as a juror for artist residency programs, organized and participated in numerous academic conferences and has spoken widely on audience accessibility to the arts in the United States and abroad.
Raina has a BA in English from Yale University and an MA in the History of Art from the University of Cambridge, England.

Giulia Del Fabbro
​Residency Docent /
​Art Historian

Giulia Del Fabbro is an art historian, and a licensed tour guide. She regularly works across central Paris, in Fontainebleau, Chantilly, Versailles and beyond. She also teaches at the CNAM in Paris. Her lectures cover the history of art from the Renaissance through to the 20th century. A fervent admirer of contemporary art, she finds it most refreshing to getting first hand knowledge of today’s art movements.

​Giulia holds a MA from the London City University and a BA in Archaeology & History of Art (Italy). She has previously served as fundraising and communications manager for some Parisian music ensembles, and in Rome for the British Academy of Arts and Archaeology. Giulia is Italian but works in English and French.

Florence Pillet
Residency Docent /
​Art Historian 

​Florence Pillet graduated from the Ecole du Louvre with a specialization in history of photography and modern art and has been working freelance as a guide-lecturer for 12 years.

Florence works in Paris with the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and Gens d’images and regularly gives exhibition tours and cultural walks through the city and its museums, where she conveys her love for all forms of art art with curiosity and enthusiasm.

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