Nikos Pantazopoulos (born 1973) is an Australian artist and lecturer at RMIT University.

Nikos Pantazopoulos
Born1973
NationalityAustralian
Alma materMonash University
Occupation(s)Artist, lecturer

Education

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Nikos Pantazopoulos earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1998. He earned a Master of Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a PhD at Monash University in 2013.[1]

Pantazopoulos' work deals primarily with his background as a Greek and a gay man, especially through the lens of ancient Greek culture and homosexuality in ancient Greece.[2][3] His photographic work "Hairy Arse" explored standards of male beauty and Classical Greek culture.[4]

Pantazopoulos' work was included in the "Queer Economies" program at the Centre for Contemporary Photography,[5] and at the 2020 "Friendship as a Way of Life" exhibit at the University of New South Wales.[6] He has also been exhibited at The Substation and the Westspace Gallery.[7] His style has been described as borrowing from Minimalism.[8]

Personal life

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Pantazopoulos is openly gay and a Greek Australian.

References

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  1. ^ "Nik Pantazopoulos" (PDF). Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
  2. ^ Pappas, Penni (27 March 2014). "Nikos' personal thread". NEOS KOSMOS. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  3. ^ Rainforth, Dylan (22 July 2014). "Space: Around the galleries". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  4. ^ Nelson, Robert (8 December 2014). "Artist Nikos Pantazopoulos and photographer Katherine Griffiths tackle the nature of beauty". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Queer Economies / Centre for Contemporary Photography". ccp.org.au. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Friendship As A Way Of Life: A Celebration Of Queer Kinship And Forms Of Being Together". CURVE. 28 March 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  7. ^ "West Space". westspace.org.au. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  8. ^ "A LECTURE FOR ANOTHER INSTITUTION | Spiros Panigirakis". Retrieved 10 May 2020.