Nikos Pantazopoulos | |
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Born | 1973 Melbourne, Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | Monash University |
Occupation(s) | Artist, lecturer |
Nikos Pantazopoulos (born 1973) is an Australian artist and lecturer at RMIT University.
Education
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.
Art
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. His photographic work "Hairy Arse" explored standards of male beauty and Classical Greek culture.
Pantazopoulos' work was included in the "Queer Economies" program at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, and at the 2020 "Friendship as a Way of Life" exhibit at the University of New South Wales. He has also been exhibited at The Substation and the Westspace Gallery. His style has been described as borrowing from Minimalism.
Personal life
Pantazopoulos is openly gay and a Greek Australian.
References
- "Nik Pantazopoulos" (PDF). Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
- Pappas, Penni (27 March 2014). "Nikos' personal thread". NEOS KOSMOS. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- Rainforth, Dylan (22 July 2014). "Space: Around the galleries". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- 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.
- "Queer Economies / Centre for Contemporary Photography". ccp.org.au. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- "Friendship As A Way Of Life: A Celebration Of Queer Kinship And Forms Of Being Together". CURVE. 28 March 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- "West Space". westspace.org.au. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- "A LECTURE FOR ANOTHER INSTITUTION | Spiros Panigirakis". Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- Australian people of Greek descent
- 21st-century Australian photographers
- Photographers from Melbourne
- Australian gay artists
- Australian LGBTQ photographers
- Gay photographers
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Victorian College of the Arts alumni
- Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
- Monash University alumni
- 21st-century Australian male artists