Born:
West Virginia, 1951
Education: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, A.B. Fine Arts, 1973
SOLO SHOWS:
2005
Andre Zarre Gallery, 529 W 20 St., New York
2004 President’s Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Andre Zarre Gallery, 515 W 20 St., New York, NY
1996 Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, 20 E 79 St., NY, NY
1993 Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, 20 E 79 St., NY, NY
1993 Kit White, New Paintings, 21-23 Peck Slip Gallery. NY,
NY
1990 Real Art Gallery Inc., 304 E 5th St. NY, NY
1986 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
1984 Ericson Gallery, 24 E 79 St., NY, NY
1983 Huntington Art Museum, Huntington, WV
1983 Ericson Gallery, 23 E 74 St., NY, NY
1983 Oglebay Institute, Wheeling, WV
1978 Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, 24 W 57 St., NY, NY
1977 Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, 24 W 57 St., NY, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2006 Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,
NY
2005 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Andre Zarre Gallery, New
York
Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,
NY
New Members, The Century Association, New York
Profession Artists Exhibition, The Century Association, New
York
2004 Prismatic Spaces, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
2003 Transitional Dialogues, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
Out Of New York, McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV
Faculty Show, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, NY
2002 Contemporary American Painting, American Embassy, Vienna,
Austria
Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Grt. Barrington, MA
2000 Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, 83 Grand St., NYC
Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
To Detail, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Grt. Barrington, MA
Painting Abstraction , New York Studio School, NY
1999 Y2K , Dieu Donne, New York, NY
1998 Where Are They Now?, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV
Abstraction II, Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, 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, NYC
Marking , Time, Marc DeMontebello Fine Art, NYC
Chicago Art Fair, Salander/O'Reilly Galleries
1996 ROOM Gallery. 'Salon', 25 Thompson St., NYC
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, Fuller-Goldeen, San Francisco
1984 Stamos/White, Ericson Gallery, Amagansett, NY
Gallery Artists, Ericson Gallery
Sunrise Art Museum, Charleston, WV
Newscapes, One Penn Plaza, NYC (Peter Frank)
Gallery Artists, Ericson Gallery
1983 Crosscurrents, Works on Paper, Oglebay Inst., Wheeling,
WV
1982 Reflections/Projections, Judith Christian Gallery, 110
Greene St. NYC
Sunrise Art Museum, Charleston, WV
Works on Walls, Huntington Art Museum
Invitational, Ericson Gallery, NYC
Group Exhibition, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV
1981 WV Juried Exhibition, Cultural Center, Charleston
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, NYC
AWARDS:
1979-80 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for Painting
1984 Nominee, Awards in the Visual Arts, National Artists Award
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
The New Yorker, March 7, 2005
Raritan Quarterly, Spring 2004, Rutgers
Univ.
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 14, 1998
Bob Schwarz, The Charleston Gazette, Sunrise Show, Charleston,
WV, March 19, 1998
Robert Murdock, Review Magazine, Dec. 13,1997
Jamie James, The New Yorker, Shorts, June
24, 1996
Edith Newhall, New York Magazine ,"Talent",
CUE Listing,(double reproduction), , June 3, 1996
Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, Art in
Review, Aug. 27, 1993
Ann Lauterbach, Catalgoue essay, "Kit White, Paintings 1988-93",
New York 1993
Mary Wade Burnside, The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, WV
June 3, 1988
Helen Harrison, New York Times, 'Abstractionists
Star In East End Shows' , July 29, 1984
Robert Long, 'Stamos and White', East Hampton Star,
Aug. 16, 1984
Robert Long, 'Lively Assortment', East Hampton Star,
July 12, 1984
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, June
1984
Theodore Wolfe, The Christian ScienceMonitor, 'How To Spot
A Natural Painter' , June 21, 1983
Caril Dreyfuss McHugh, ARTS Magazine ,'Christopher
White' , June, 1983
Louise Polan, 'Christopher White', 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
Guide The Wayne Co. News, Huntington, WV, Vol. 15, No. 11,
July, 1983
Dialogue, The Ohio Arts Journal, July/August 1983
The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, Nov.
1978
The New Yorker, Going On About Town, Jan.
1977
ArtWorld, Jan. 1977
Tom Reisenberg, The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, WV, Dec.
29, 1976
COLLECTIONS:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Johnson Art Museum, Cornell, Ithaca, NY
Huntington Art Museum, Huntington, WV
Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV
Chubb Insurance Co.
Prudential Insurance Co.
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
INA, Philadelphia,PA
Ivan Chermayeff Associates, NYC
American Healthways
CATALOGUES:
"Christopher White", Huntington Art Museum, 1983, NEA Funded
"Stifel Ten Tear Retrospective", Ogleby Institute, Stifel
Fine Arts Center, 1988
"Kit White. Paintings 1988-93", in association with Salander/O'Reilly
Galleries, NYC, 1993
"Kit White, Recent Paintings", Salander/O'Reilly Galleries,
NYC 1996
TEACHING:
Asst. Professor of Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, NY, Drawing from the Great Masters, Dept.
of Education
Curator: Women and Geometric Abstraction, Essay, Pratt Manhattan Gallery
and Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, September-December, 1999
SELECTED ARTICLES WRITTEN:
"Gwenn Thomas", Review Magazine, Nov. 1996
"Mathew Barney and the Empty Artifact", Review Magazine,
Dec. 1,1997
"Bernard Chaet", Review Magazine, March 15, 1998
"Hector Leonardi", Catalogue Essay, April,1998
"Pier Consagra", Review Magazine, April 15, 1998
"Antonio Marra", Catalogue Essay, July, 1998
"Willard Boepple", Review Magazine, March 15, 1999
"Steve Mumford", Review Magazine, March15, 1999
"Art As Identity", Review Magazine, April 1, 1999
"Kim Keever". Review Magazine, April 15, 1999
"Patrick Wilson", Review Magazine, April 15, 1999
"Linda Schrank", Catalogue Essay, July 1999, Museo della
Ceramica, Monte San Savino, Italy
"Women and Geometric Abstraction", Exhibition Essay, Pratt
Institute, Sept. 1999
"William Tucker", Review Magazine, Dec. 1, 1999
"Lex Braes", Review Magazine, Dec. 15, 1999
"Steve DiBenedetto", Review Magazine, May 1, 2000
"Jules Olitski", ARTnews, Jan. 2001
"James Castle", ARTnews, Feb., 2001
"Andrea Belag", ARTnews, Feb. 2001
"Martin Mull". ARTnews, May, 2001
"Julie Heffernan", ARTnews, Oct.,2001
"David Bates", ARTnews, March 2002
“Gene LeMay” Catalogue essay, April 2002
“Lex Braes, Interview, Felix Ringel, Germany, May 2002
BOARDS: Alliance For Young Artists And Writers (Scholastic Awards)
SELECTED
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Carol and Jim Kautz
Walter Rothschild
Malcolm Goldstein
Eve Goldschmidt
James Snyder
Sandy Pei
Hal Landers
Ian Hoblyn
Estelita Brodsky