Sozita Goudouna

Dr. Sozita Goudouna has been recognized for her impactful role in promoting contemporary art and facilitating cultural exchanges between Greece and the global community. In 2022, she received the British Council’s Culture and Creativity Award at the Study UK Alumni Awards.

Based in New York, she is a professor and curator. She is the author of “Beckett’s Breath: Anti-theatricality and the Visual Arts” (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism/Oxford University Press) and co-author of “Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance.”

As a visiting professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, she initiated the MA in Breath Studies, focusing on breath in the performing and visual arts. She is editor of the scientific journal “Performance Research” on Breath and Iconologies, as well as ‘On the Mundane.’ Her research has been published in prominent scientific journals.

In 2015, she was selected by RoseLee Goldberg as the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Performa Biennial and a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, while working at the Onassis Foundation in New York.

She holds a PhD in American High Modernism from the University of London, an MA from King’s College London/RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), and a BA in Philosophy and Theatre Studies from London Met. She has taught art and theater history, including the course “From Renaissance to Modernism” as an adjunct professor at CUNY, as well as at NYU, The New School, SUNY, Roger Williams University, the University of the Peloponnese, and Pace University. She has also served as treasurer of the Board of Directors of AICA Hellas (International Association of Art Critics) and as a member of the Board of Directors of ITI (UNESCO).

Her curatorial practice has been featured in numerous media outlets, including “The New York Times,” “Wall Street Journal,” “Artforum,” “Brooklyn Rail,” “Vogue,” “Artnet,” “Artnews,” “The Art Newspaper,” “Whitehot,” “Vanity Fair,” “Ocula,” “Fine Art Globe,” “Harper’s Bazaar,” “Cult Bytes,” and “Huffington Post,” among others.