Dr. Antonis Danos has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy (Southeast Missouri State University), a Post-graduate Diplora in the History of Art and Architecture (University of East Anglia), and a Master’s and a PhD in the History and Theory of Art, both from the University of Essex. Between 2002 and 2007, he worked in Cypriot higher education institutions, and from 2007, at Cyprus University of Technology, teaching and researching in History and Theory of Art.
He is a member of the following academic bodies: Association for Art History (UK), Modern Greek Studies Association (USA), College Art Association (USA), AICA Hellas, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (UK), Mediterranean Studies Association (USA), and the Association of Greek Art Historians [EEIT] (Greece).
His research has focused on Nationalism and [Post]Colonialism, on the ideological and aesthetic constructions of collective identities, on Modern Greek art and Contemporary Cypriot art, on art criticism and historiography, as well as on aspects of gender and sexuality in art. He has published in the areas of Modern Greek and Contemporary Cypriot art and culture in general, in academic journals, in edited volumes, a two-volume book, texts in several monographs on Cypriot artists, as well as the experimental documentary Christoforos Savva, 1924-1968 (2011). He has designed and curated exhibitions on modern and contemporary Cypriot art, in Cyprus, Greece, the UK, and Turkey. More recently, his research and publications focus on the Mediterranean as a cultural and ideological 'space', against hegemonic, neo-colonial discourses.