About

A hungry eye.

Nicole (Nikki) Georgopulos is an art historian, curator, and educator specializing in European art of the nineteenth century. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia, where she also is Affiliated Faculty at the Centre for European Studies. She previously served as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Department of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She received her PhD in Art History & Criticism from Stony Brook University in 2020, and has held positions at the Morgan Library & Museum, the International Foundation for Art Research, and the Corning Museum of Glass. From 2020-25, she served on the Board of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art; she is currently a Board Member of the Early Career Researchers of Nineteenth-Century French Art Network. She has published widely in journals and exhibition catalogues on, among other subjects, the work and feminist politics of Mary Cassatt and questions of gender and labor in nineteenth-century French art. She is currently at work on a book project on representations of mirrors and reflections in nineteenth-century French art. She lives in Vancouver, BC with her dog, Freddie Mercury.