Sopio Gagoshidze is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Rutgers University and a Dodge Fellow at the Zimmerli Art Museum. Her research focuses on the art and material culture of medieval Georgia, with a particular interest in cross-cultural interactions and artistic exchanges between Georgia and Byzantium. Her dissertation, “The Khakhuli Triptych and the Art of Repurposing,” reconsiders the Khakhuli Triptych within the framework of global medieval art history.
In 2022, at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Gagoshidze curated Locating Georgia: Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, the first major exhibition in the United States that focused on Georgian art.
Gagoshidze received a B.A. in art history from the Tbilisi State Academy of Art in 2011 and an M.A. in 2014.
