Giorgio Di Genova

Giorgio Di Genova is an art critic, historian and exhibition curator, the author of many monogragraphs on contemporary artists. He is the founding editor of the art quarterly Terzo Occhio (1975). Curator for the Italian Pavillion at the XLI Venice Biennial Exhibition of Art (1984), he has taught history of contemporary art in the Fine Arts Academies of Catania, Naples and Rome (1979–1994). He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). He is currently working on his Storia dell’arte italiana del ‘900 – per generazioni (History of Twentieth-Century Italian Art), of which seven volumes have already been published.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Giorgio Di Genova." (Viewed on November 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/di-genova>.