Dr. Evanthia Tselika is an associate professor at the University of Nicosia, where she is also currently acting as the Fine Art programme coordinator. Her research concentrates on social practices and histories of art, with a particular focus on the commons, as well as visual cultural histories of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
In recent years her focus has been on issues that have to do with the environment, with a particular emphasis on water. She has collaborated with various art centres, museums and research organisations locally and internationally. Some of these include the Municipal Arts Centre in Nicosia, the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, October Gallery in London, the Anthropology and Archaeology Museum as well as the Modern Art Museum in El Salvador, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Niteroi, Brazil.
Her articles are published in journals such as Visual Studies and Public Art Dialogue and commissioned by organizations such as Peace Research Institute Oslo. In 2021 a collective volume publication she co-edited on contemporary art and Cyprus was published by Bloomsbury and in 2023 two educational books she co-authored on the cultural history of nature were published by Harokopio University and Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, Athens. She has been involved in the coordination and curation of different European level research and creative projects, an example being the Interreg Balkan Med funded programme Phygital (Greece- Albania- Cyprus, 2017-2020). She is regularly involved in organizing and chairing academic and non-academic conferences/ symposia/ workshops/ learning experiences and creating exhibitions and art education programmes with a focus on collectivity, public space and the environment. She teaches classes such as Museum Education, Art Education, Critical and Cultural Studies, Socially Engaged Art Practices and History of Art.