Kathy Battista

Program Director Emerita, MA in Contemporary Art and Faculty at Sotheby's Institute of Art

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Sotheby's Institute of Art

  • PhD, The London Consortium, University of London
  • MA, Courtauld Institute of Art
  • BA, Fordham University

Battista is scholar, lecturer, and a curator of exhibitions in museums and galleries, most recently, The Art of Fashion at Fountain House Gallery New York, Escape Attempts at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, and E.A.T.: Experiments in Art and Technology at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria. She has authored numerous articles and books, including: New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice and Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London. Battista is also Editor in Chief of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists at Oxford University Press and she is co-editing (with NY faculty Bryan Faller) a forthcoming book on artist estates and foundations, Creative Legacies: Critical Issues in Artist Estates, for Lund Humphries.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice (IB Tauris, 2017)

‘New Feminist Positions: Disrupting a White Feminist Canon’, Third Text, 2016

Re-negotiating the Body: Feminist Artists in 1970s London, IB Tauris, winner of the Choice Book Award for 2013.

Co-author of Art New York (Ellipsis, 2000) and Recent Architecture in The Netherlands, Ellipsis, 1998

Essays in the following edited collections: Drawings in the 21st Century: Papers on Contemporary Practice (Ashgate, 2015); Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (Temple University Press, 2009); Arcade: Artists and Placemaking (Black Dog, 2006); Surface Tension: Supplement 1 (errant bodies, 2006) and Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (errant bodies, 2003); as well as many exhibition catalogues.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Carmen Argote, Warm is a Black, Ballon Rouge, New York, 2019

Escape Attempts, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, 2017

The Art of Fashion, Fountain House Gallery, New York, 2017

E.A.T.: Experiments in Art & Technology, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, 2015

Democracy: What's Right What's Left, Phoenix Gallery, New York, 2015

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