Graduate Student Profile

Sopio Gagoshidze is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Rutgers University and a current Forsyth Graduate Student Fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the art and material culture of medieval Georgia, with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural interactions and artistic exchange between Georgia and Byzantium. Her dissertation, “The Khakhuli Triptych and the Art of Repurposing,” situates the triptych within a global medieval framework, examining the reuse of Byzantine visual elements and the broader phenomenon of repurposing as both an artistic strategy and an ideological practice in the medieval world.
In 2022, Gagoshidze curated Locating Georgia: Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union at the Zimmerli Art Museum—the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to Georgian art.
She holds a B.A. (2011) and M.A. (2014) in Art History from the Tbilisi State Academy of Art.