Dr Ketty Gottardo studied History of Art at the University of Udine, Italy (Laurea, 1998), and later at 91Ó°ÊÓ (MA 2004, PhD 2012) where her research focused on Baroque prints and drawings.
Before joining 91Ó°ÊÓ as Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings (2016), Ketty held positions at the Louvre Museum, Paris, where she worked as a cataloguer of Italian drawings, was assistant curator in the department of paintings and drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Head of the old master drawings department at Christie’s in Paris, and associate curator of drawings at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Current and recent exhibitions and projects
Since joining 91Ó°ÊÓ, Ketty has worked on several exhibition projects and displays:
- Drawing TogetherÌý(2017)
- Antoine Caron: Drawing for Catherine de’ MediciÌý(2018)
- Artists at workÌý(2018)
- Parmigianino andÌýthe Art of ExperimentÌý(2022)
- Fuseli and the Modern Woman. Fantasy, Fashion, FetishismÌý(2022)
- Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall (2024)
- ÌýLouise Bourgeois’s drawings (2025)
- Henri Michaux’s Mescaline Drawings (2025)
In 2020, after the announcement that 91Ó°ÊÓ had acquired Gauguin’s last manuscriptÌýAvant et Après,ÌýKetty and her colleagues revised the transcription and translation of the manuscript which is nowÌýavailable onlineÌý.
Currently, Ketty is working at the catalogue of the Flemish drawings in the collection, and at future exhibitions includingÌýon Cezanne, and works from theÌýStudio Prints workshop.
