Sozita Goudouna

Dr. Sozita Goudouna is renowned for her impactful role in promoting contemporary art and facilitating cultural exchanges between Greece and the global community. She curates exhibitions that showcase contemporary Greek artists, providing them with a platform to reach wider international audiences. These exhibitions and programs highlight the unique perspectives and narratives of Greek culture and include collaborations with American institutions, creating a bridge between Greek and international cultures. Through these initiatives, Dr. Goudouna plays a vital role in enriching the contemporary art scene and fostering dialogue between Greece and the world. In 2022, she received the British Council Culture and Creativity UK Study Award.

Based in New York, Dr. Goudouna 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 the co-authored book “Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance” (Punctum Books, 2025). As a visiting professor at Goldsmiths, she initiated the MA in Breath Studies, focusing on breath in the performing and visual arts. Additionally, she authored a chapter in the Routledge Critical Studies on Breath and is the editor of the forthcoming “Performance Research” journal issues “On Breath” and “On Iconologies,” as well as the co-editor of the “Performance Research” issue “On the Mundane.” Her research has been published in prominent peer-reviewed journals, including “The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism,” “GPS: Global Performance Studies,” “Theater Topics,” “Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics,” “BST: Body Space & Technology Journal,” “PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research,” “The Journal of Poverty and Theatre,” “The International Journal of the Arts in Society,” and “DRHA: Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts,” among others.

In 2015, she was selected by RoseLee Goldberg as the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Curator at the Performa Biennial and post-doctoral Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at New York University. Over the course of her 20-year career, she joined Raymond Pettibon Studio in 2019 as director, collaborating closely with David Zwirner, Regen Projects, and Sadie Coles to curate a production for the Performa Biennial at the New Museum. Her internationally exhibited projects include solo exhibitions by Arthur Jafa, John Akomfrah, Jake Chapman, Martin Creed, Lynda Benglis, Andres Serrano, Santiago Sierra, Karen Finley, ORLAN, and Marina Abramović, as well as participation in Documenta 14, the Onassis Foundation New York, the French Consulate in NYC, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, and the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Dr. Goudouna 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, the course “From Renaissance to Modernism” at CUNY (City University of New York) as an adjunct professor, as well as at NYU (New York University), 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 Art Critics Association) and as a member of the board of directors of ITI (International Theatre Association UNESCO). Her curatorial practice has been featured in “The New York Times,” “Wall Street Journal,” “Artforum,” “Brooklyn Rail,” “Vogue,” “Artnet,” “Artnews,” “The Art Newspaper,” “Whitehot,” “Vanity Fair,” “Ocula,” “Fine Art Globe,” “Cult Bytes,” and “Huffington Post,” among other media outlets.