Kathleen Gilje
Born
1945 Brooklyn, NY
Currently resides in New York, NY.
Education
1962-66
1967-71
B.F.A., City College of New York
Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy; studied 16th & 17th Century Italian Art
Teaching Experience
1999-2003
1990-2000
1982-1990
Adjunct, “Painting the Figure,” New York University, NYC
Adjunct, “Painting Materials & Techniques, Basic Drawing,” School of Visual Arts, NYC
Adjunct, “Figure Drawing, Painting,” Parsons School of Design, NYC
Solo Exhibitions
2013
2006
2003
2003
2002
2002
2001
1997
1989
“Revised and Restored”, Bruce Museum
Curators, Critics and Connoisseurs of Modern and Fine Art: Francis Naumann Fine Art
Susanna and the Elders, Restored, The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, NH
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
The National Museum of Women in Arts, Washington D.C.
The National Museum of Women in Arts, Washington D.C.
Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA
The List Visual Arts Center at MIT Cambridge, MA "Recovering
Lost Fictions: Caravaggio's Musicians"
University of Rochester, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY
Group Exhibitions
2011
2009
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
“Race and Representation: The African American Presence in American Art”, Weatherspoon Art
Museum, Greensboro, NC
“Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation”, The Heckscher Museum of Art,
Huntington, NY
“Ingres et les Modernes,” Musée Nationales des Beaux-Arts, (Feb. 5 – May 31)
Musée Ingres, Montauban, (July 3 – October 4), catalogue by Dimitri Salmon
“Celebrating Gifts of Honor of the Hood Museum of Art,” Hood Museum, Darthmouth
College, Dartmouth
"The Charged Image, from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer," Joseloff Gallery,
The University of Hartford, CT
"Size Matters," Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
"Women on Women", White Box, NY, curated by Claire Jervert
"Unreal" (with Sandow Birk and Kim Keevers), Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
"Identities: Contemporary Portraiture", New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit NJ
"Classicism Now", curated by Barbara Bloemink, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
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"Figuration: The Other Side of Modernism," Curated by Lily Wei, Snug Harbor Museum, Staten
Island, NY
"Deja vu: Reworking the Past", curated by Barbara Bloemink, Katonah Museum of Art
"New Realism for a New Millenium", Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
"Picturing the Modern Amazon", curated by Judith Stein
"Polter-Zeitgeist, A Survey of Mischievious Art," curated by Ann Wilson Lloyd,
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
"Still Beauty in Contemporary Painting", Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
"Contemporary Art from The Phillip Morris Collection", Knoxville Museum of Art,
Knoxville, TN
"Sacred Symbols/New Visions: Religious Imagery in Contemporary Art", curated by
Ross Anderson, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
"The Politics of Gender", curated by Lenore Malen, Queensborough Community College
Gallery, Bayside, NY
"Special Projects", Project Studio, P.S1, Long Island City, NY
"Selections from the Unaffiliated Artist File", curated by Linda Shearer, Artists' Space, New
York, NY
Times Square Show, New York, NY
The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
"Perspective 5", Galleria II Grifo, Rome, Italy
1998
1997
1990
1986
1981
1980
1976
1972
Bibliography
2010
2009
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
ARTNEWS, The ARTNEWS 200 Top Collectors: Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, Summer
Dimitri Salmon, Grande Galerie: Le Journal du Louvre, Qui Sont Les Ingristes D’Jourd’Hui’?, June
Molly Birnbaum, ARTNEWS, ARTTALK, Sargent Takeoffs Take it Of. Jun
Charlie Finch, ARTNET, Beast Milk, 3/5/2009
Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, About.com Art History, The Ladies’ Room: Kathleen Gilje’s 48 Paintings of
Sargent’s Women.
Robert Storr. “Scholar, Teacher and Champion of Artists From Ingres to
the Chapmans,” The Art Newspaper, Illustrated portrait of Robert Rosenblum as the Marquis
de Pastoret, Jan.
Herbert Muschamp. Iconoclastic Art Historian, Seeing the Old and New, Illustrated portrait
of Robert Rosenblum as the Comte de Pastoret, Feb 28
R.C. Baker. “Wonder Women,” The Village Voice, March 6
Ruth K. Meyer. “From the Country to the Town: Kathleen Gilje & Robert Lobe,” Art in
America, October, pp. 53-55
Eleanor Heartney. “Kathleen Gilje at Francis Naumann,” Art in AmericaJune/July
Julie Brenner. “Getting the Ingres of It,” ARTnews, Art Talk, June, pp. 37
Anthony Haden-Guest. “Judging Yourself,” Financial Times,” April 15/16
Concannon C. Phelan, Desmond Costache, and Shipps Little. “Art History Survey: A Round
Table Discussion,” Art Jounral, color image, p. 45
Mary Ellen Mark. “Kathleen Gilje and Portraiture,” Bomb Magazine, Summer issue
Martha Schwendener, Margaret Matthews-Berenson. “New Materials, New Approaches,”
Drawing, Premiere issue, pp. 76-77
Jeff Daniel. “”St. Louis Post Dispatch,” Unreal, Sandow Birk, Kathleen Gilje, Kim Keever, The
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Lois, Sept 8
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“Riverfront Times,” Unreal, Birk, Gilje, Keever. Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, August
21-27
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
Linda Nochlin. “Seeing Beneath the Surface,” Art in America, March, pp. 119-121
Mieke Bal. “Kultur-analyse,” Traumkunst. Musicians, Restored, pp, 198-200
Stanley Fish. “Postmodern Warefare,” Harper’s Magazine, illustration, July, p. 60
Ann Landi. “Who was the Real Artemisia?” ARTnews, February, pp. 110-113
Mieke Bal. “Dreamind of Art,” Umeni Art 5 (Prague), Issue XLIX, pp. 370-383
Aric Chen. “Double-Takes,” Dutch, Nov-Dec, p. 40
Ilaria Dagnini Brey. “In bella copia,” Elle (Italy), Nov, pp. 252-254, 256
Rebecca Sonkin. “Kathleen Gilje at Gorney Bravin + Lee,” Tema Celeste, Nov-Dec, p. 82
Gregory Williams. “Review: Kathleen Gilje at Gorney Bravin + Lee,” Artforum, Nov, p. 147
Hilarie Sheets. “Fall preview: Chelsea Galleries,” The New York Observer, Sept 17, p. 14
Ken Johnson. “Reviews: Kathleen Gilje at Gorney Bravin + Lee,” The New York Times, Sept
14, pp. E26
“Fall Preview: September,” New York Magazine, September 10, p. 86
Marie-Pierre Nakamura. “New York Femmes,” Art Actuel (France), Sept-Oct, pp. 64-67
Sabina Spada. “Variazioni d’artista: Kathleen Gilje caccia all’intruso,” Arte (Italy), July, pp.
116-123
Dan Bischoff. “Face-to-Face with Some Startling Visages,” The Sunday Star-Ledger, April
Janet Kaplan, et al. “Picturing the Modern Amazon: A Conversation,” College Art
Association Journal, Winter
Joanna Frueh. “NewMuseumBooks,” The Modern Amazon, Rizzoli, p. 11, illustration, p. 45
Laurie Fierstein, Judith Stein, Wendy Steiner. “Lost in Amazonia,” The Nation, May 15
“Revering Vermeer,” The Boston Globe, May 11
Martha Schwendener, “Amazons.com,” Time Out New York, April 27-May 4
Michael Rush. “So They’re Muscular: Want to Make Something of It?” The New York Times
(Sunday Arts + Leisure Section), March 19
D. Dominick Lombardi. “Taking Art History to New Heights of Revisionism,” The New York
Times/ Westchester, February 21
Kathleen Wilcox. “Déjà vu Exhibit is a Must See,” Critics Corner, The Lewisboro Ledger
(Lewisboro, NY), February3
Kathleen Gilje. “Artist Statement for Tema Celeste,” Tema Celest (Italy), Issue 75
Mieke Bal. “Aesthetics and Catastrophic Culture,” Aesthetic Theory, Art and Popular
Culture,” edited by Jostein Gripsrud, Nordic Academic Press, Norway
“Contemporary Artists Borrow from the Past in Déjà vu Exhibit at Katonah Museum,” The
Lewisboro Ledger (Lewisboro, NY), Dec 23
“New Show Mixes Past and Present at Katonah Museum of Art,” The Patent Trader, Dec 21
Edward Gomez. “Past is Present,” Art & Antiques Special Contemporary Art Issue, Dec.
Tony C. Duarte. “Modernized Art,” The Pacific Northwest Inlander, April 15-20
Kim Levin. “Voice Choices,” The Village Voice, March 17
Miles Unger. “Kathleen Gilje at Bernard Toale Gallery,” ARTnews, January
Sophie Matthiesson. “New art history meets Old Masters in Boston,” The Art Newspaper
(England), Nov
Christine Tempe, “Old Masters Mixed with a Twist of Wry,” The Boston Globe (Living Arts
Section), Oct 28, p. D1
Joseph Grigely. “Recovering Lost Fictions,” Musicians (catalogue for Gilje-Grigely
Collaboration), Caravaggio’s Musicians, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Heather Hewitt. “In Memory of Pleasure,” Art Papers, Sept-Oct, p. 74
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1996
1995
1990
1989
1988
1982
1981
1972
Amy Oliver. “A Fresh Eye on Old Masters,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6
“Dust Off,” Museums Boston, Summer
Nadine Wasserman. “”In Memory of Pleasure,” The New Art Examiner, June, p. 44
Charles Bonenti. “Joining Yesterday and Today,” The Berkshire Eagle, April 11
James Auer. “With Fresh Eyes,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 19
Michael Kimmelman. “Kathleen Gilje at Bravin Post Lee,” The New York Times, Sept 13
RoseLee Goldberg. “What’s Wrong With This Picture,” Mirabella, September
Elisa Zuritsky. “Post-Its: The Week Ahead in Arts and Entertainment,” The New York Post,
Sept 1
Linda Yablonsky. “Kathleen Gilje at Bravin Post Lee,” Time Out New York, October 3-10,
issue No. 54
Francine Koslow Miller. “Kathleen Gilje at Bernard Toale Gallery (review), Artforum,
January, p. 87
Gerald Silk. “Reframes and Refrains: Artists Rethink Art History,” Art Journal, Fall, pp. 1019
Lisa Simpson. Contemporary Art from the Phillip Morris Collection (catalogue), September
Ross C. Anderson. Sacred Symbols? New Visions: Religious Imagery in Contemporary Art
(exhibition catalogue)
Lenore Malen. The Politics of Gender (catalogue), March
John Russell. “Aspects of the Figure,” The New York Times, July 2
Linda Shearer. Selections (catalogue), March
Enrico, Cripolti. “Kathleen Gilje,” Prospettevi Cinque (catalogue), April
Conservation Experience
1966-68
1968-72
1976
1973-76
Apprenticed in the studio of Antonio DeMata- restoration of paintings
Worked for the Museum of Capodimonte restoring paintings, Naples, Italy
Worked for the studio of Marco Grassi restoring paintings, New York
Began independent studio restoring Old Masters for clients including Stanley Moss, E.V.
Thaw, Robert Dance
Restored Old Master paintings included in following collections:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Norton Simon Collection, Pasadena, CA
Thyssen Bornemizsa Collection, Lugano, Switzerland-Spain
Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA
Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Museum Collections
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Musee Ingres, Louvre Museum, Montauban, France
The Granary, Collection of Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, Sharon, CT
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Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Bass Museum, Miami, FL
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