Karen Wilkin is a New York-based independent curator and critic specializing in 20th century modernism. Educated at Barnard College and Columbia University, she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship, to Rome. Wilkin has organized numerous exhibitions internationally and is the author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, and Hans Hofmann. Her recent projects include a Hofmann retrospective for the Naples Art Museum, Naples, Florida, and, with William C. Agee, the introductory essays for the Stuart Davis Catalogue Raisonné. Wilkin met Clement Greenberg in the early 1970s. When the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, acquired the critic’s collection, she was asked to contribute the main essay to the catalogue, because of her long friendship with Greenberg and her expertise on his writings, his studio practices, and the artists with whom he was closely associated. This year she was curator of the Syracuse exhibition “Clement Greenberg: Then and Now” that examines some of the Syracuse painters influenced by Greenberg. Wilkin teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program of the New York Studio School. She is the Contributing Editor for Art for the Hudson Review and a regular contributor to The New Criterion, Art in America, and the Wall Street Journal. Source Syracuse University - Newhouse School
Select Publications
- 2007 - Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné (3 volumes) by William Agee (Editor), Karen Wilkin (Editor), Ani Boyajian, Mark Rutkoski (ISBN 0-300-10981-4)
- 2005 - Kenneth Noland: The Nature of Color by Kenneth Noland (Author), Alison De Lima Greene (Author), Karen Wilkin (Author) (ISBN 0-89090-130-9)
- 2003 - Hans Hofmann (ISBN 0-8076-1526-9)
- 2001 - Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection by Bruce Guenther, Karen Wilkin (Editor) (ISBN 0-691-09049-1)
- 2000 - David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions (ISBN 1-886438-01-3)
- 1999 - Stuart Davis in Gloucester (ISBN 1-889097-34-9)
- 1998 - Isaac Witkin (ISBN 1-55595-153-8)
- 1998 - Giorgio Morandi (Twentieth-Century Masters Series) (ISBN 0-8478-1947-7)
- 1995 - Frankenthaler: Works on Paper 1949-1984 (ISBN 0-8076-1104-2)
- 1992 - Georges Braque (Modern Masters Series) (ISBN 0-89659-947-7)
- 1986 - Milton Avery: Paintings of Canada (ISBN 0-88911-403-X)
- 1984 - David Smith (Modern Masters Series) (ISBN 1-55859-256-3)
