Catherine de zegher biography

PERSONAL: Born April 14, 1955, in Groningen, The Netherlands; daughter of Albert (a pediatrician) and Christiane (Dhooge) de Zegher; married Philippe De Jaegere (a lawyer), July 21, 1977; children: Samuel, Eva, Marga. Ethnicity: "Flemish." Education: University of Ghent, License in History of Art and Archaeology, 1977.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St., New York, NY 10013.

CAREER: Curator, art historian. Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium, cofounder, 1985, director, 1987—. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, visiting curator, 1995-97. Royal Commission for Monuments and Landscapes, member, 1986—; Flemish Commission of Visual Arts, member, 1992-96. Lecturer at University of Leeds, Royal College of Art, London, and University of London. October Books, New York, NY, executive editor, 1997; The Drawing Center, New York, NY, director, 2000—. Participated in archaeological excavations in Greece and Belgium; curator of art exhibits around the world.

WRITINGS:

Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth-Century Art, in, of, and from the Feminine, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 1996.

(With Michael Archer and Guy Brett) Mona Hatoum, Phaidon Press (New York, NY), 1997.

The Precarious: Art and P

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Catherine de Zegher

Belgian curator, art critic, and art historian

Catherine de Zegher
Catherine de Zegher portrait
Born	Marie-Catherine Alma Gladys de Zegher 1955 (age 69–70) Groningen, Netherlands
Nationality	Belgian
Alma mater	University of Ghent
Occupation(s)	Curator and art historian

Catherine de Zegher (born Marie-Catherine Alma Gladys de Zegher Groningen,^[1] April 14, 1955^[2]) is a Belgiancurator and a modern and contemporary art historian.^[3] She has a degree in art history and archaeology from the University of Ghent.^[4]

From 1988 to 1998, de Zegher was director of the Kunststichting Kanaal, Kortrijk,^[5][6][7] from 1999 to 2006, executive director and chief curator of the Drawing Center, New York, from 2007 to 2009, director of exhibitions and publications of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and from 2013 to 2018, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent. In 2018, she was temporarily suspended from this post as a result of the Toporovski Collection Controversy.^[8][9] She was permanently suspended in 2019 and in 2020, she retired.^[10][11]

De Zegher was curator of the Belgian pavilion (1997) and the