Nicholas Liou

Nicholas Liou studies transpacific and Asian diasporic art with particular interests in histories of material movement, nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscapes, more-than-human-ecologies, and Indigeneity across the Pacific. He is a first-year PhD student and a 2024–2025 Graduate Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Movement. 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 at Williams College, where he completed a thesis about the botanical illustrations of John Tyley and breadfruit. While at Williams he was also a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Williams College Museum of Art.