Dr Ketty Gottardo studied History of Art at the University of Udine, Italy (Laurea, 1998), and later at The Courtauld (MA 2004, PhD 2012) where her research focused on Baroque prints and drawings.
Before joining The Courtauld as Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings (2016), Ketty held positions at the Louvre Museum, Paris, where she worked as a cataloguer of Italian drawings, was assistant curator in the department of paintings and drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Head of the old master drawings department at Christie’s in Paris, and associate curator of drawings at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Current and recent exhibitions and projects
Since joining The Courtauld, Ketty has worked on several exhibition projects and displays:
- Drawing Together (2017)
- Antoine Caron: Drawing for Catherine de’ Medici (2018)
- Artists at work (2018)
- Parmigianino and the Art of Experiment (2022)
- Fuseli and the Modern Woman. Fantasy, Fashion, Fetishism (2022)
- Heny Moore: Shadows on the Wall (2024)
In 2020, after the announcement that The Courtauld had acquired Gauguin’s last manuscript Avant et Après, Ketty and her colleagues revised the transcription and translation of the manuscript which is now available online .
Currently, Ketty is working at the catalogue of the Flemish drawings in the collection, and at future exhibitions including Henri Michaux’s Mescaline Drawings and Louise Bourgeois’s drawings.
