Nazar Kozak

Nazar Kozak serves as a Senior Researcher in the Department of Art History at the Ethnology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine. He received his PhD from Lviv Academy of Arts in 2000. Kozak was a recipient of several international scholarships and grants, including from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Getty Research Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Austrian Agency for International Mobility (OeAD), and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM). In 2001–2022, he also taught art history at Ivan Franko University of Lviv.

Kozak’s research interests encompass medieval and contemporary art. His exploration of the medieval period focuses on intersection of visual culture and politics as well as mobility of religious iconography in (post-)Byzantine world. In contemporary art studies, Kozak investigates agency of art in crises, including revolutions, wars, and ecological disasters. His 2017 article on art interventions during the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution received an honorable mention as a finalist for the CAA’s Art Journal Award.

The project

Title: Global Artistic Responses to Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster

Hosting institution: Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA)

Selective Bibliography

• Nazar Kozak, “Kenji Yanobe, Atom Suit, and Chornobyl: Enacting Survival After Nuclear Disaster,” Afterimage 50/3 (2023): 55–80.
• Nazar Kozak, “Art Resistance and Russia's 'Non-Invasion' of Ukraine” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 9/1 (2022): 67-104.
• Nazar Kozak, “The Akathistos on the Move and the Geography of Post-Byzantine Art” in Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Traditions, ed. Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan, 221-238. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.
• Nazar Kozak, “Akathistos Cycle from the Perspective of Iconography and Visual Culture” in Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019).
• Nazar Kozak, “Reasons for Innovation: Unusual post-Byzantine Iconography of Akathistos Strophe 11,” Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art: Série Beaux-Arts 56 (2019): 19–32.
• Nazar Kozak, “Art Embedded into Protest: Staging the Ukrainian Maidan” Art Journal 76/1 (2017): 8–27.