Art and Art History

Areas of Study 
Museum Studies

Education
MA Art History, University of Chicago
BA Art History, Lake Forest College

Brief Bio
Lia Alexopoulos an independent curator and senior lecturer in the departments of Art & Art History and Museum Studies at Lake Forest College, where she has taught since 2001. She holds a BA in Art History from Lake Forest College and MA in Art History from the University of Chicago. She has also studied at the University of Florence in Italy and Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her pedagogical interests and expertise are contemporary exhibition practices, museum studies and the history of art and architecture of Chicago.

Lia has curated and organized numerous exhibitions shown at venues including Deitch Projects (New York), Documents XI (Kassel, Germany), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Sonnenschein Gallery (Lake Forest), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). Prior, she was Lecturer in Art History at Columbia College Chicago and Assistant Curator for McDonalds Corporation’s art collection, where she oversaw the acquisition and installation of fine art for several regional corporate offices as well as cataloguing, public tours and other programming for the headquarters collection.