Art History; Visual Studies
Theo. Triandos is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at UB, specializing in gender and sexuality in 20th century North American art. Triandos’s recent article, “Inside and Outside of Queer: Deborah Kass’s Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times” (2024) is out in Woman’s Art Journal. His book, Gender Deconstruction in North American Art, 1960-1999, will appear with Routledge. Triandos’s other projects explore gender destabilization in the thriller genre of Western cinema, since 1950, and cultural identity formation in the writing of art criticism. Triandos teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in art history, visual culture, history of criticism, and theory. He has spoken at institutions such as the Clark Art Institute, The University of Chicago, The Courtauld, and The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.