Kit White was born in West Virginia in 1951. He graduated from Harvard University, A.B. Fine Arts (1973), Cum Laude, and had his first solo exhibition with Betty Parsons at Parsons/Dreyfuss Gallery in 1977. His work has been the subject of more than twenty-five solo exhibitions in galleries and Museums. He received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for painting and was a professor of painting for twenty-one years at Pratt Institute.
His work is the subject of a monograph by Carter Ratcliff, Line Into Form, and Kit is the author of the international best-selling book 101 Things To Learn In Art School, published by MIT Press. A large selection of the original drawings from this book are in the collection of the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at the Corcoran School of Art and Design, George Washington University.
Awards
2010: Director’s Guest, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy
2007: Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
1984: Nominee, Awards in the Visual Arts
1979-80: Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for Painting
Solo Shows
2019-21: Shadowinboxing, collaboration with Nona Faustine, FreedmanArt, New York
2019: FreedmanArt, Walls and Occupied Spaces, 25 E 73 St. New York
2017: FreedmanArt, 25 E 73 St. New York; The Institute, NY University, New York'; Eckert Fine Art, Kent, CT
2014: Andre Zarre Gallery, 529 W 20 St. New York; Laramie College, Cheyenne, WY
2011: Andre Zarre Gallery, 529 W 20 St. New York; Clay Center Museum, Charleston, WV
2010: Andre Zarre Gallery, 529 W 20 St., New York
2007: Andre Zarre Gallery, 529 W 20 St., New York, NY; Morgan-Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
2005: Andre Zarre Gallery, 529 W 20 St., New York, NY
2004: Pratt Institute, President’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003: Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1996: Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1993: Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY; Kit White, New Paintings, Peck Slip Gallery. New York, NY
1990: Real Art Gallery, New York, NY
1986: Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
1984: Ericson Gallery, New York, NY
1983: Huntington Art Museum, Huntington, WV; Ericson Gallery, New York, NY; Oglebay Institute, Wheeling, WV
1978: Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York, NY
1977: Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Shows
2020: Dialogue, Brady Gallery GWU, Washington, DC
2019: Shadowboxing: Nona Faustine and Kit White, FreedmanArt, New York
2019: Margins, Lex Braes, Kit White and Jongil Ma, Hammond Art Museum, N. Salem, NY
2018: Colors, FreedmanArt, New York
2017: Brady Gallery, George Washington University, Wasdington, D.C.
2015: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Andre Zarre, New York; Armory Show, Danese/Corey, New York, NY; Art In The Making, Luther Brady Gallery, Geo. Wahsington Univ., DC; Shades of Paint, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
2014: Art In The Making, FreedmanArt 25 W 73 St. NewYork, NY; Attitudes, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York; Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute, NY
2013: Surviving Sandy, Daedalus Found., New York; Silhouette, Elizabeth Foundation, New York; Unrestricted Forms, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
2011: Put Up or Shut Up, New York Academy of Art
2008: Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute
2007: Cool Aid, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
2006: Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Professional Artists Exhibition, The Century Association, New York
2005: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York; Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; New Members, The Century Association, New York; Professional Artists Exhibition, The Century Association, New York
2004: Prismatic Spaces, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
2003: Transitional Dialogues, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY; Out Of New York, McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV
2003: Faculty Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
2002: Contemporary American Painting, American Embassy, Vienna
2002: Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2001: Geoffrey Young Gallery, Grt. Barrington, MA
2000: Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Schafler Gallery, Pratt; To Detail, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Grt. Barrington, MA; Painting Abstraction, New York Studio School, New York, NY
1999: Y2K , Dieu Donne, New York, NY
1998: Where Are They Now?, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV; Abstraction II, Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA; Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; 25th Anniversary Show, Ellie Schaul, Charleston, WV; Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN; Self-Portrait, Dieu Donne, New York, NY
1997: Group Show, Salander/O"Reilly Galleries, New York, NY; Marking , Time, Marc DeMontebello Fine Art, New York, NY; Chicago Art Fair, Salander/O'Reilly Galleries
1996: ROOM. 'Salon', 25 Thompson St., New York, NY
1995: Group Show: Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL; Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1988: Stifel Ten Tear Retrospective, Ogleby Institute
1986: Tangent Directions, 80 Albany St., Portsmouth, NH
1984: 50 Artisits/50 States,1984, Fuller-Goldeen, San Francisco, CA; Gallery Artists, Ericson Gallery, New York, NY; Sunrise Art Museum
1984: Stamos/White, Ericson Gallery, Amagansett, NY; Newscapes, One Penn Plaza, NYC (Peter Frank); Gallery Artists, Ericson Gallery, New York, NY
1983: Crosscurrents, Works on Paper, Oglebay Inst., Wheeling, WV
1982: Reflections/Projections, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY
1982: Sunrise Art Museum, Charleston, WV; Works on Walls, Huntington Art Museum; Invitational, Ericson Gallery, New York, NY
1981: WV Juried Exhibition, Cultural Center, Charleston, WV
1980: Albright Knox, Members Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1979: Albright-Knox, Members Gallery, Buffalo, NY; New Work, Nieu Amsterdam, 17 S. William St., NYC
1978: Conference Show, WV Cultural Center, Charleston, WV
1977: Land, City, Seascape, Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York, NY
Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Weissman Museum, Minnesota, MN
The Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
Huntington Art Museum, Huntington, WV
Luther Brady Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC
The Reading Museum, Reading, PA
Clay Center Museum, Charleston, WV
Chubb Insurance Co., White Plains, NY
Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, NJ
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, VA
INA, Philadelphia, PA
American Healthways, Franklin, TN
Teaching
The Frick Collection: 2011 - Present, Drawing Instructor
Pratt Institute: 1997-2018, Associate Professor: Painting, CCE, Dept. of Fine Arts, Graduate MFA and Undergraduate
Vanderbilt University: 2018, Juror & Lecturer
Juror, International Print Center: Summer 2014 Show
McGill University: 2012, Visiting Instructor
Laramie County Community College: 2012, Exhibition & Lecture
Maine College of Art: Fall/Winter 2010-11, Mentor; Summer 2010, Visiting Artist, MFA Program
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 2004-2008, Drawing Instructor (created “Drawing From The Masters” program); Lecture Series: “Dialogues, East and West,” with Mansheng Wang, 2004
Curator: "Women and Geometric Abstraction (Exhibition Essay) , Pratt Manhattan Gallery / Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, September-December, 1999
Civitella Ranieri Foundation
Board Member, 2013 - present
Guest Director, Summer 2013
Selected Bibliography
“Once More Into the Culture Wars,” Jason Stopa, Hyperallergic, 2019
“Upon This Land: Shadowboxing Reviewed,” Stephanie Goodalle, BOMB Magazine, December 2019
“Recent Work,” Leon Graham, Millerton News, NY Sept. 17, 2017
Kit White, Lisa Banner, The Institute, May 2017
“Kit White at FreedmanArt and the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU),” Jonathan Goodman, Art Fuse, June 15, 2017
“Brady Gallery Illustrates ‘Art in the Making’,” Robert Stewart, GWU Today, May 2015
“Making Art, and Making It Well,” David Carrier, artcritical, April 3, 2015
“Drawing Closer to Uncertainty,” Andrea Kirsch, artblog.com, May 2014
“Art Critical Pick: Kit White at Andre Zarre Gallery,” May 2014
“Devolution of the Modernist Field”, Catherine Redman, May 2014
“Permission to Fail,” Barry Schwabsky, The Nation, January 2014
Nuria Lopez Colon, EXIT, Barcelona, Spain, February 2012
Bill Spence, Yorkshire Gazette, Yorkshire, UK, December 2012
“101 Things to Learn in Art School,” Mike Caddis, Networks, Univ. Brighton, UK, July 2012
“Art School in Brief,” The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, December 2011
Stanley Abercrombie, Interior Design, August 2011
“Christ and the Robots,” R.C. Baker, Village Voice, June2007
Raritan Quarterly, Spring 2004, Rutgers University
“Art Guide,” Ken Johnson, The New York Times, March 28, 2003
Catalogue: Contemporary American Art, Drennan/Johnson, Vienna, Austria, May 2002
Catalogue: Where Are They Now?, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV, March 1998
The South Hills Journal, Where Are They Now?, March 1998
Bob Schwarz, The Charleston Gazette, Sunrise Show, Charleston, WV, March1998
Robert Murdock, Review Magazine, December 13,1997
Jamie James, The New Yorker, Shorts, June 24, 1996
Edith Newhall, "Talent", CUE Listing (double reproduction), New York Magazine, June 3, 1996
“Art in Review,” Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, Aug. 27, 1993
“Kit White, Paintings 1988-93", Ann Lauterbach, Catalogue essay, New York,1993
Mary Wade Burnside, The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, WV June 3, 1988
“Abstractionists Star In East End Shows,” Helen Harrison, The New York Times, July 29,1984
“Stamos and White,” Robert Long, East Hampton Star, August 16,1984
“Lively Assortment,” Robert Long, East Hampton Star, July 12, 1984
“Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, June 1984
“How To Spot A Natural Painter,” Theodore Wolfe, The Christian Science Monitor, June 21, 1983
“Christopher White,” Caril Dreyfuss McHugh, ARTS Magazine, June 1983
“Christopher White,” Louise Polan, catalogue, Huntington Art Museum, 1983
Patricia Proctor, Charleston Sunday Gazette Mail, Charleston, WV, July 10,1983
Jim Ware, The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, WV, July 18, 1983
The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, WV, July 1, 1983
The Wayne Co. News, Huntington, WV, Vol. 15, No. 11, July, 1983
“Dialogue,” The Ohio Arts Journal, July/August 1983
“Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker, November 1978
“Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker, January 1977
ArtWorld, January 1977