Simon North

Simon North currently teaches survey courses for the University of New York in Prague. He has worked as an art history lecturer for numerous American study abroad programs in Prague (SIT, NYU, CIEE, Lexia), and was Academic Director of the SIT program “Arts and Social Change” in 1997.

North received his M.A. in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh. Following post-graduate studies in painting at the Edinburgh College of Art, he worked as an independent artist, drawing teacher and freelance lecturer/guide at the National Galleries of Scotland. From 1988 to 1993 he taught English in France, the UK, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. He was a tutor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Art and Architecture at the Central European University from 1992-96 (where he was also responsible for library acquisitions) until the university closed in Prague. He continues to paint on a freelance basis, and is currently focusing on landscape painting.