Nicholas Liou

Nicholas Liou is a second-year PhD student studying nineteenth- and twentieth-century Asian diasporic art with particular interests in histories of material movement, more-than-human ecologies, Indigeneity across the Pacific, and abstraction. Nicholas received his BA in Art History with a minor in Asian Languages and Cultures from Northwestern University and an MA in the History of Art from Williams College, where he completed a thesis about breadfruit and the botanical illustrations of John Tyley. While at Williams, he was also a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Williams College Museum of Art.