About
Reine Okuliar is an art historian, published art writer and freelance curator with over 40 exhibitions organised globally.
An art collector, she supports a number of institutions including Tate, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Camden Arts Centre and Fluxus Art Projects. Reine is a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance and of the Association of Women in the Arts.
She is a member of the Tate Executive Committee.
Reine received her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh where she works on the role of Giambattista Marino's poetics on Nicolas Poussin's oeuvre.
She co-founded and directed Galerie E.G.P from 2009 to 2016, a contemporary art gallery based in Paris with venues in London and New York.
Awards / Distinctions
2020 Courtauld High Distinction for MA Thesis
Poussin’s Drawings for Marino or the Representation of Poetic Inventions
Supervisor: Dr Sheila McTighe
2019 Courtauld Prize for an Outstanding Essay
Kader Attia: The Continuous Repair of Chaos
Two exhibitions were at the heart of my analysis: Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotionthat took place at the Hayward Gallery in 2019 and the Whitechapel Gallery's site specific commission of 2014, Kader Attia: Continuum of Repair: The Light of Jacob’s Ladder.
Supervisor: Professior Sarah Wilson