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Catherine Amidon

Email: camidon@mail.plymouth.edu
Phone: 535-2646

Catherine Amidon earned a Doctorat in art and politics of Europe in the 1930s at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) and worked at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in the 1980s. A Fulbright allowed research in the Baltic States and Russia following the opening of the Iron Curtain.

Currently director of exhibitions at the Kart Drerup Art Gallery, Amidon has curated more than 20 exhibitions for institutions and as an independent curator, including Different Voices: New Art from Poland and in the fullness of time: island culture and well grounded memory, an exhibition of Jamaican art that toured nationally. Other Jamaican projects have included the first Jamaican Pavilion at the Venice Biennial; she teaches Caribbean Identities.

Amidon is currently part of a team of curators working on Karl Drerup and the American Craftsman's World at Mid-Century a touring exhibition set to open in 2008 highlighting the national importance of founder of the PSU Art Department in the crafts movement.