About

Dr Reine Okuliar is an art historian and curator specialising in the intersections of visual culture, literature, and religion in seventeenth-century Europe. She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where her thesis, "The Echoes of Giambattista Marino's Poetics in Nicolas Poussin's Oeuvre," examined how religious, poetic, and intellectual traditions shaped artistic production and reception — drawing on close visual analysis and archival research across collections including the Royal Library at Windsor, the Cabinet des dessins at the Louvre, the Archives Nationales, and the Vatican Library.

Previously, her MA dissertation at the Courtauld Institute of Art received high distinction for reassessing Giambattista Marino's role in commissioning the celebrated Marino Drawings.

Alongside her academic research, Reine has built a career bridging scholarship, curation, and public engagement. From 2009 to 2016, she served as Curator and Director of Galerie E.G.P, organising over forty exhibitions internationally across Paris, London, and New York. She was Curatorial Assistant on the Richelieu Sculpture Biennale, a project led by Iwona Blazwick OBE, where she secured permission to stage the biennale at the Parc de Richelieu and coordinated with local authorities, artists, and artisans. More recently, she curated Alice Anderson: Cosmic Connections at Antichità Alberto di Castro in Rome, selected for the 2026 Roma Gallery Weekend.

Reine is a member of the Tate Executive Committee and, since 2021, has convened and moderated Tate's annual "Summer Tate In-Conversation" series, interviewing artists including Larry Achiampong, Christian Marclay, Anthea Hamilton, Alice Anderson, and David Batchelor.

She teaches with Art History Link-Up, supporting A-Level and HPQ students in the history of art. Her writing includes contributions to The Courtaldian and the proceedings of the Université d'été, Faire image au XVIIe siècle. She will present at the Renaissance Society of America's 2027 conference in Philadelphia.

She is a member of the Association for Art History, the Renaissance Society of America, and Collectif Renaissance.