Elizabeth Giorgis

Elizabeth W. Giorgis is Associate Professor of Art History, Criticism and Theory in the College of Performing and Visual Art and the Center for African Studies at Addis Ababa University. She is also the Director of the Modern Art Museum Gebre Kristos Desta Center at Addis Ababa University. She served as the Dean of the Skunder Boghossian College of Performing and Visual Art and as Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies of Addis Ababa University. She is the editor and author of several publications. She has curated several exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum, Gebre Kristos Desta Center, more recently an exhibition of Julie Mehretu’s work titled “Julie, the Addis Show,” the exhibition “Addis Ababa the Enigma of the New and the Modern that showcased four artists who engaged the changing cityscape of Addis Ababa, and the exhibition “Time Sensitive Activity” by the Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. She has also participated in several international conferences and public lectures, most recently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her book, Modernist Art in Ethiopia, which is the first comprehensive monographic study of Ethiopian visual modernism within a broader social and intellectual history, is currently in press and will be released in fall 2018.