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Victoria Cooke is a professional curator and member of the University of North Georgia Department of Visual Arts, where she has served as Director of Art Galleries since 2016. In this role, she brings contemporary artists and exhibitions to the Dahlonega, Gainesville, and Oconee campuses while also teaching courses in 18th- and 19th-century art, contemporary art, and curatorial practice. She has developed upper-level art history and exhibition practices courses that provide students with practical, career-focused experience.

Cooke received B.A. degrees in Behavioral Psychology, French Literature, and Interior Design, with a minor in Art History, from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, and later earned her M.A. in Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans. She completed all requirements except the dissertation in the PhD program at the University of Delaware before serving as Curator of Painting at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She has also held curatorial positions at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art in Baton Rouge and the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina.

Her research and curatorial projects span early 19th-century American and European art, Impressionism, American Modernism, contemporary African American art, and contemporary art and craft in the Southeastern United States. Major exhibitions and projects include Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America, Jefferson’s America & Napoleon’s France: An Exhibition for the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial, REMIX: Themes & Variations in African American Art, Independent Spirits: Women Artists of South Carolina, and Views of Appalachia: Photographs from the Do Good Fund Collection.

• ABD, Art History, University of Deleware, 1997
• M.A., Art History, Tulane University, 1994  
• B.A., Interior Design, University of Mississippi, 1990   
• B.A., Behavioral Science, University of Mississippi, 1986