Rate My Professor Luke Smythe

Monash University

Arts and Culture Art History Fine Arts Visual Arts Film Studies Digital Arts Museology

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5.08/20/2025

Challenges students to reach their potential.

4.05/21/2025

Inspires curiosity and a love for knowledge.

5.03/31/2025

Makes learning exciting and meaningful.

5.02/7/2025

Creates dynamic and thought-provoking lessons.

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Dr. Luke Smythe is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory in the Department of Fine Art within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. He earned a PhD in Art History from Yale University, with a dissertation titled Gerhard Richter: Lightness and Loss, completed between 2006 and 2012. Smythe also holds an MA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Auckland. Prior to his appointment at Monash, he taught art history courses in New Zealand and the United States. From 2012 to 2014, he served as Curatorial Fellow in Postwar Art at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany. In addition, he has curated exhibitions at institutions including the Chinati Foundation, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Pinakothek der Moderne. Smythe teaches units such as Introduction to the History and Theory of Art, Museums, Archives and Cultural Heritage, and History and Theory of Photography, Film and Video. He also supervises graduate research students in fine art.