Elena Stylianou
Dr Elena Stylianou is the Director of NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Center, associated with the Pierides Foundation]. She is also Associate Professor in Art and Art History at European University Cyprus. She researches, writes, and curates at the crossings of the history and theory of photography, modern and contemporary art, critical studies, and museum and curatorial practices.
She has curated a number of art exhibitions in Cyprus, including “Repetitive Acts: The Power of Weaving and Textile in Contemporary Art”, “In the Sea of the Setting Sun: Photographic Practices and the Archive” and “Ar(t)chaeology”. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes and is the co-editor of Contemporary Art from Cyprus: Politics, Identities and Cultures Across Borders (Bloomsbury, Spring 2021), Ar(t)chaeology: Intersections of Art and Archaeology (IAPT Press, 2019), and Museums and Photography: Displaying Death (Routledge, 2018). She is currently editing a special journal issue on the theme of “Disrupting the Archive: Processes of decolonization and photography in Cyprus”.
Dr Stylianou earned her doctoral degree from Columbia University, Teachers College NY, with emphasis on contemporary art, and is a recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Getty-CAA grant, a Fulbright scholarship, and an ArtTable fellowship at the Curatorial Department of the Museum of Arts & Design in New York. She previously held a postdoctoral position at UCL, London studying the intersections of contemporary art, museums and technology and has worked as the first Saturday Academy coordinator of the Museum of the City of New York, serving under-privileged youth through the museum’s educational programs.
She is the lead researcher of several EU funded projects dealing with arts and heritage, she is one of the national experts representing Cyprus in the EU initiative Accessible EU, aiming among others to promote accessibility for all in the cultural sector, and is one of the founding members of the International Association of Photography and Theory [IAPT].
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