See Nicole Oest's instructional website for office hours and information about courses taught by Nicole Oest.
Nicole Krup Oest is a historian of art and photography and an instructor in the Art Department at the City College of San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. in 2020 from the University of Zurich. She is the author of Photography and Modern Public Housing in Los Angeles, curator of Catherine Bauer and the Photography of Modern Housing, and manager of a website dedicated to the art historian, photographer, and activist Esther Lewittes Mipaas. Nicole's work was awarded fellowships from the Getty and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and received support from the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research of the Humboldt Area Foundation.
From 2019 to 2022, and again in fall 2023, Nicole mentored students and collaborated with SFMOMA on public art education projects in her role as the Diego Rivera Mural Docent Coordinator.