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Education

B.A., Harvard University

Biography

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 has
taught and lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick
Collection, the Maine College of Art, and McGill University.