About the artist:

Kit White is an visual artist and writer. He was born in West Virginia, attended Harvard University where he earned a degree in Fine Arts and moved to New York City after a year of independent study in Europe. He had his first one person exhibition of paintings in 1977 at Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, 24 W 57th St. Since then, his work has been the subject of nineteen solo exhibitions, fourteen of which were in New York. His work is in the collections of many museums, including the Guggenhiem Museum, the Johnson Art Museum and the Huntington Museum as well as many national and international collections. In 1979, he received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for painting and in 1984, he was a Nominee for the National Arts Award. He is also a published critic whose writing has appeared in Art News and Review Magazine as well as numerous catalogue essays. He has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome and a Director’s Guest at Civitella Ranieri Foudation in Umbertide, Italy. He is the author of “101 Things To Learn In Art School” from MIT Press, 2012, and hastaught and lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, the Maine College of Art, and McGill University.