Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, PhD



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Welcome to my web site. I built it on neocities.org :)

I am an artist, writer, and art historian interested in the relationship between art, technology, gender, and disability. I received my Ph.D. in art history from the University of Chicago in 2023, with a dissertation titled “Vera Molnar’s Programmed Abstraction: Computer Graphics and Geometric Abstract Art in Postwar Europe.” I am working on publishing my dissertation as a book. I spent the 2023-24 academic year as a postdoctoral scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute. I am based in Los Angeles and am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

Here's a picture of me and my service dog, Bob Ross, taken by Cassia Davis at the Getty Center in 2024:



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art

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You can find my artwork here.

writing

conversations with artists

talks and interviews



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