KATHLEEN GILJE
BORN
1945 Brooklyn, New York
EDUCATION
1962-66 BFA, City College of New York
1967-71 Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy; studied 16th & 17th Century Italian Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 “Revised and Restored,” Bruce Museum, May 11-Sept 9, 2013, Catalogue, Essays by Peter Sutton, John Yau, Linda Nochlin, Robert Rosenblum, interview by Francis Naumann,
2009 48 Portraits, Sargent's Women, Restored, 2009, Francis M Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY, March - April 2009
2006 Curators, Critics and Connoisseurs of Modern and Fine Art: Francis Naumann Fine Art, catalogue by Robert Rosenblum, NY, NY, April 5 – May 24
2005 Likeness and Beyond: Portraits, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, January 24 – February 25
2005 New Work, Kathleen Gilje, Doug Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, April 2 -16
2005 New Work, Kathleen Gilje, Doug Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Canada, March 15 - 29
2003 Susanna and the Elders, Restored” The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, NH, (April 20-Oct. 5)
2003 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (Dec .- Jan.)
2002 The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. (18 Oct. 2001- 21 Jan. 2002) (brochure)
2001 Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY (7 Sept. - 6 Oct.)
2000 Bernard Toale Gallery, MA; "The Ingres Drawings: Restored" (1 - 25 Nov.)
2000 Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY; "The Inner Portrait" (Project room: 8 Jan - 5 Feb.)
1999 Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI; “Recovering Lost Fictions: Caravaggio’s Musicians” collaboration with Joseph Grigely) Oct.-Nov. (cat.)
1998 Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY; “Recovering Lost Fictions: Caravaggio’s Musicians”(collaboration with Joseph Grigely) Feb. (cat.)
1997 Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA April-Aug. (cat.)
1997 The List Visual Arts Center at MIT Cambridge, MA “Recovering Lost Fictions:
1997 Caravaggio’sMusicians” (collaboration with Joseph Grigely) Oct-Dec. (cat.)
1997 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA; “Restoring New Meaning” (Oct.)
1996 Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY (Sept.- Oct.)
1995 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA (Oct.)
1989 University of Rochester, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY
1982 Siegal Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1978 55 Mercer Street, New York, NYGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 “The Distaff Side,” The Granary, Sharon, CT, curated by Melva Bucksbaum, April 21-
2013 “Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descendinga Staircase: An Homage,” Francis Naumann Gallery, New York, NY, Feb 15- March 29, 2013
2011 “Race and Representation: The African American Presence in American Art” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Aug 20, 2011 – Nov 20, 2011
2011 “Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation” The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY January 15 – March 27
2011 “New Work,” Francis Naumann Gallery, New York, NY. June 8 – July 15
2010 The Visible Vagina. Francis Naumann fine Art and David Nolan Gallery, New York, Dec.
2010 “Ingres et les Modernes,” Musee Nationales des Beaux-Arts, (Feb.5 – May 31) Musee Ingres, Montauban, (July 3 – Oct. 4), curated & catalog by Dimitri Salmon (Louvre)
2010 “40,” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, June 15- July 2010
2007 Demoiselles, Revisited, 2007, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY, November - December 2007
2006 National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, July 1 – February 18
2005 “Celebrating Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art,” Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, catalogue
2004 “The Charged Image, from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer,” Joseloff Gallery, The University of Hartford, Conn. Sept.1 – Oct. 17
2003 “Size Matters,” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, (July 29- Aug. 30)
2003 “Women on Women” White Box, NY, curated by Claire Jervert, May1-24
2002 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St-Louis, MO; "Unreal" (with Sandow Birk and Kim Keevers) (23 August - 12 October)
2002 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA; "Five Fictions" (3 - 20 April)
2002 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA; "Crush" (30 January - 23 February)
2001 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA: "Boston Drawing Project", curated by James Hull (28 Nov.-29 Dec)
2001 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ; "Identities: Contemporary Portraiture" (25 March- 20 May)
2000 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY; "Classicism Now", curated Barbara Bloemink (June - Sept.). (cat.)
2000 Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island, NY; "Figuration: The Other Side of Modernism", curated by Lily Wei (4 June - Dec). (cat.)
2000 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA; "Revering Vermeer", curated by Amy Oliver (3 May- 27 May)
2000 Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY; Armory Show (24-28 February)
2000 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; “Déjà vu: Reworking the Past”, curated by Barbara Bloemink (16 Jan. - 2 April) (cat.)
2000 Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; “New Realism for a New Millenium” (12 Dec.1999– 30 Jan)
2000 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; “Picturing The Modern Amazon”, curated by Judith
2000 Stein, 30 March – 6 July (cat)
1999 Gorney, Bravin and Lee Gallery, New York, NY; The Armory Art Fair. (Feb.) Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY; "Gallery Artists"
1998 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, “Polter-Zeitgeist, A Survey of Mischievous Art,” curated by Ann Wilson Lloyd, (Oct.-Nov)
1997 Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, “Still Beauty in Contemporary Painting”
1995 Bravin Post Lee, “The Lolita Syndrome”, Young Galleries Sector, The Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
1994 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY (June)
1993 Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC, “Sex, Money, Politics Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY, “Gender: Out of The Garden”
1990 Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, “Contemporary Art from The Phillip Morris Collection”
1990 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, “Sacred Symbols/New Visions: Religious Imagery In Contemporary Art”, curated by Ross Anderson
1990 Queensborough Community College Gallery, Bayside, NY, “The Politics of Gender”, curated by Lenore Malen
1986 P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, “Special Projects,” Project Studi
1983 Siegel Contemporary, New York, “Ten Variations On A Theme (The Human Figure)”, curated by Michael Walls
1981 Artists’ Space, New York, NY, “Selections From The Unaffiliated Artist File,” curated by Linda Shearer
1981 White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Alexander Anderson, Josh Baer and Ted
1980 Times Square Show, New York, NY
1977 P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, “10 Years of Downtown”
1977 Alessandro Gallery, New York, NY
1976 The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1972 Galleria Il Grifo, Rome, Italy, “Persective 5”
CONSERVATION EXPERIENCE
Apprenticed in the studio of Antonio DeMata- restoration of paintings, 1966-68
Worked for the Museum of Capodimonte restoring paintings, Naples, Italy, 1968-72
Worked for the studio of Marco Grassi restoring paintings, New York, NY 1973-76. Began an independent studio restoring Old Masters for clients including Stanley Moss, E.V. Thaw, Robert Dance, 1976.
Restored Old Master paintings which are included in the 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., Williamstown, MA, April-Aug. (catalogue)